Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition

by Richard Evelyn Byrd

Back from the twilight of an ice age Admiral Byrd has come with a story of sights that men have hardly dreamed of, sights that no human eye has ever witnessed before- an account of difficulties met and overcome in the "loveliest and most unforgiving of continents." Using the most primitive means and the most modern, pushing on by ship, dog team and by plane, Admiral Byrd and his men penetrated to the very heart of the Antarctic. There, with the latest scientific instruments, they coaxed from the age-old ice secrets that have been locked there since the world was young. The hundreds of thousands who read and thrilled to Little America will find in Discovery a worthy successor - a book which teems with adventure, human interest and scientific facts. Now in this great book admiral Byrd tells the whole magnificent story of geographical exploration, scientific achievement and adventure. Here is the living, glowing, human story of discovery-of man pitted against difficulties and dangers never before encountered-planes crashing on ice files; men "squeaking" through major operations thousands of miles from civilization; his ship creeping for days across the Devil's Graveyard where great bergs lay hidden in the fog on every hand; the reactions of a man who faced self imposed isolation for the benefit of science.

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