This is an auction for MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH: THE BELGICA'S JOURNEY INTO THE DARK ANTARCTIC NIGHT by Julian Sancton.

Amazon.com review:

"In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole went awry. After a series of setbacks, the commandant faced had two options: to turn back in defeat and spare his men the devastating Antarctic winter, or sail deeper into the freezing waters. De Gerlache sailed on, and soon the Belgica was stuck in the icy hold of the Bellingshausen Sea. When the sun set one last time, the ship’s occupants were condemned to months of endless night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness and besieged by monotony, they descended into madness. De Gerlache relied increasingly on two young officers whose friendship had blossomed in captivity: the expedition’s only American, Dr Frederick Cook—half genius, half con man—and the ship’s first mate, soon-to-be legendary Roald Amundsen. Together, they planned an escape from the ice—one that would either etch their names in history or doom them to a terrible fate at the ocean’s bottom. Drawing on the diaries and journals of the Belgica’s crew and with exclusive access to the ship’s logbook, Sancton brings novelistic flair to a story of human extremes, one so remarkable that even today NASA studies it for research on isolation for future missions to Mars. Equal parts maritime thriller and gothic horror, MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH is an unforgettable journey into the deep."

Large format (trade) Penguin paperback 2021.

350 pages + photographs.

Near new condition.

The cost of shipping is $8.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

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