Raised to a life of relentless hard work as one of seven children of a single mother, Julie Waterman was married and having her own first child by the time she was 17. At 23 she …
Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean remains one of the world's last frontiers. Covering nearly 14 million km^2 (an area approximately 1.4 times the size of the United …
In the literature of South Seas exploration the violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are vivid. This volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered …
