![]() ![]() But the commandant's plans for a three-year expedition to reach the magnetic South Pole would be thwarted at each turn. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. ![]() In August 1897, thirty-one-year-old commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail aboard the Belgica, fueled by a profound sense of adventure and dreams of claiming glory for his native Belgium. ![]() The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter-in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton Sides ![]()
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