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288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
Why do men who have returned from the Antarctic always wish to go back to that hard & simple life? I believe it to be this: A man on such an expedition lives so close to nature, in whom he realizes a giant force which is visibly, before his eyes, carving out the world.Matthiessen adds that "more than any other region left on earth, Antarctica is immaculate, inviolable, a white fastness of pristine air & ice & virgin glacier at the farthest end of the earth, still marvelously intact."