Antarctica: A Year at the Bottom of the World |  | Author: Jim Mastro
Publisher: Bulfinch
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1212784
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 176
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 11 x 10.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0821227548
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.8904
EAN: 9780821227541
ASIN: 0821227548
Publication Date: June 2002
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Product Description
Experience the strange beauty of Antarctica through photographs and exciting personal anecdotes that take armchair travelers and future explorers right to the edge of the ice! In this breathtaking book, Jim Mastro describes his striking year-long account of what its like to exist at the bottom of the world, complete with photographs, captions, and his own dramatic, personal narrative. Experience face-to-face encounters with pods of killer whales, deadly winter storms, and floes of gray ice. Endure the lonely isolation during four months of utter darkness. Enjoy the anticipation and warmth of the worlds shortest summer. Jim Mastro takes you there to face the challenges and adventures that he survived.
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LOVED IT January 24, 2006
libertychick1976 (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is amazing!!! The photos are spectacular, and the author is very descriptive -- he makes you feel like you are actually there. Recommend highly.
 what it is like to work and wonder way way down under June 27, 2005
Robert J. Crawford (Balmette Talloires, France)
This is a clearly written, funny, moving and fascinating account of what it was like for the author to work in Antarctica over a number of years. While he has told it like a one-year trip, in fact it is a distillation of 14 years experience.
The book is distinguished in several respects. First, the photography is wonderful - just it is worth the price of admission. Second, there is the story of working there as a scientist, in particular the work underwater. It is really fascinating and full of quirky tidbits, like mummified seals thousands of years old or the faulty insulation of some fish. Third, there are the personal tales of what it is like for the residents, and they are harrowing not in any adventuresome sense, but in the psychological demands placed on them. Women beware of living there with so many hungry males!
Warmly recomended. It is also beautifully written from a stylistic standpoint. Truly a mini-masterpiece of the genre.
First Person Text And Beautiful Photographs May 8, 2005
G. Reid (Roseland, NJ)
The author, Jim Mastro, got to spend one year at the bottom of the world and he wrote first person text and included beautiful photographs in his presentation. Some of the photographs capture the incredible beauty of Antartica and of the beauty of the wildlife.
Better than expected June 18, 2003
Scott FS (Sacramento, CA United States)
I expected a tome from someone who worked in Antarctica, heavy on the narrative, light on coffee-table book quality photographs. I was pleasantly surprised to find a fine quality book with excellent photographs. Well-written and nicely laid out, this makes a good introduction to modern-day Antarctic history. I've read the account of the doctor who had breast cancer and her rescue "Ice Bound" as well as a scientist's account of working in the Antarctic area, "Crystal Desert". Neither of them were as good as this book. I've travelled to the Antarctic peninsula (as well as the fantastic South Georgia Island, a sub-antarctic island), and it's a wonderfully beautiful place. Some of the photographs capture the southernmost continent's incredible beauty and equally fantastic wildlife. Recommended.
The reader is part of the voyage April 6, 2003
Ralph (Calgary, Alberta)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are in the least bit interested in Antarctica, as I have been for about 20 years, READ THIS BOOK. Mastro is a brilliant travel writer whose simple, witty, easily enjoyable style keeps you feeling as though you were there experiencing the whole thing yourself. An amazing narrative insight into several different areas of the frozen continent, in weather conditions beyond belief, as well a trip below the ice on a diving expedition, and a trip to Bird Island on the Antarctic Peninsua. I learned so much form this book! It would be well worth the price even if it were only in text form. The amazing pictures throughout it really add to the sense of what it is really like there.
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