Science and Travel in Extreme Latitudes

Although I have conducted astronomical and geospace research in the subarctic and Arctic both in North America and in Europe, the term polar research brings to me visions of Antarctica, where I spent fourteen months more than three decades ago as a member of the Sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition. In part, perhaps it is simply this that causes me to estimate G. E. Fogg's History of Antarctic Science so highly. This marvelous volume has been needed for many years. There have been books and monographs telling of the history of various nations in the Antarctic, of exploration in the Antarctic-and certainly there have been heroic tales of adventurers in the Antarctic and compilations with chapters written by different specialists. But until Fogg's contribution there has not been a book describing the entirety of Antarctic scientific research from the work of Edmond Halley three centuries ago to the pres-