This is a story of a revolution in knowledge, and of the men who struggled against the winds, the monstrous seas and the searing ice to explore this last continent so that man might know what lies at the bottom of the world.

It is also the story of the amazing life of the far south - a bird that circles the world for three years before making landfall; a seal that dies of rotten teeth; a penguin that lays its egg in the darkness of the polar night.

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