Before the Heroes Came

by Baughman, T. H.

• ISBN13: 9780803261631
• ISBN10: 0803261632
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set foot on the Antarctic continent. T. H. Baughman provides an account of the first tentative human gropings in Antarctica, concentrating on the coalescing of official and popular attitudes that later resulted in the polar races of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen. T. H. Baughman is chair of the History Department at Benedictine College. He is the author ofPilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott's First Antarctic Expedition(Nebraska 1999).

Author Biography

T. H. Baughman is chair of the History Department at Benedictine College. He is the author of Pilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott’s First Antarctic Expedition (Nebraska 1999).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii	(1)
Preface	ix
1 The White Enigma	1	(12)
2 From Thought to Action	13	(10)
3 Lifting the White Shroud	23	(20)
4 No Way South	43	(18)
5 Toward the National Expedition, 1896-1899	61	(16)
6 The Interloper	77	(13)
7 Pilgrims on the Ice	90	(24)
8 Lessons Not Learned	114	(9)
Notes	123	(28)
Selected Bibliography	151	(4)
Index	155