Life on the Ice: No One Goes to Antarctica Alone

Life on the Ice: No One Goes to Antarctica Alone
By Roff Smith

* Publisher: National Geographic
* Number Of Pages: 224
* Publication Date: 2005-02-01
* Sales Rank: 412653
* ISBN / ASIN: 0792293452
* EAN: 9780792293453
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: National Geographic
* Studio: National Geographic
Review:

good writing, interesting stories, but...

How can you do a National Geographic book that covers multiple trips to Antarctica with no photographs and no maps? I also found Smith's condescending comments about the United States to be annoying. Yes, I can imagine the beaurocracy seemed pointless and tedious, but still. Not to acknowledge in the list of acknowledgments anything of value provided to him by the U.S. Antarticic Program seems petty. To read between the lines, I felt that Smith was saying that an Antarctica with no U.S. presence would be superior to any value that the U.S. has provided there.

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