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SCIENCE. -ADVERTISEMENTS. 



JUST READY... 



A CHAPTER ALMOST UNIQUE IN THE 

 FASCINATING HISTORY OF LATTER-DAY 

 SCIENTIP^IC EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS 



ANTARCTICA, or 



Two Years Amongst the Ice of the South Pole 



By Dr. N. OTTO Q. N0RDEN5KJ0LD and 



Dr. JOHAN QUNNAR ANDERSSON 



Dr. Nordenskj old's was one of the expeditions planned at the International 

 Geographical Congress of 1895, by which a concerted attack was made upon this 

 enormous unknown tract lying around the South Pole. The part assigned to 

 the Antarctic was to approach the east coast of the frozen southern land early in 

 the autumn of 1901, penetrate as far southward as possible and laud a winter- 

 ing party of six under Dr. Nordenskjold himself. She was then to return to the 

 Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego, picking up the party in the following 

 spring. But the next year proved the coldest and hardest yet experienced in 

 point of ice conditions. The ^»i/rtrciic was unable to reach the wintering-place 

 again. Dr. Andersson with two companions attempted to reach it over the ice. 

 The ship tried to force a way farther to the east. Both attempts failed ; the 

 vessel was nipped by the ice and sank ; and all three parties, isolated from each 

 other, had to spend a second enforced winter in those regions. 



Altogether the book forms as thrilling a narrative of scientific adventure as 

 can be found — all its adverse fortunes seeming to have but enhauced the value 

 of the scientific and geograjihical observations obtained by the expedition and 

 made far more perfect by being continued through so long a period. 



Handsomely ill iistrated with coloured plates^ 

 maps and reproductions from photographs. 



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