Antarctic Comrades: An American with the Russians in Antarctica

By Gilbert Dewart

Book Overview

Antarctic Comrades chronicles an American scientist's adventure with a Soviet research team in 1960. This book is Gilbert Dewart's description of the work accomplished at the Mirnyy research station and of a four-month summertime trek inland to Vostok, another Soviet station in the coldest part of Antarctica. It illuminates an event during the Eisenhower/Kennedy/Khrushchev era, an early attempt at glasnost, and the evolution of the international scientific community.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814204902
• ISBN13: 9780814204900
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.