{"product_id":"alan-gurney-below-the-convergence-2007-paperback","title":"Alan Gurney: Below the Convergence [2007] paperback","description":"This wonderfully written book tells of the first Herculean expeditions to Antarctica, from astronomer Edmond Halley's 1699 voyage in the \u003cem\u003eParamore\u003c\/em\u003e to the sealer John Balleny's 1839 excursion in the \u003cem\u003eEliza Scott\u003c\/em\u003e, all in search of land, glory, fur, science, and profit. Life was harsh: crews had poor provisions and inadequate clothing, and scurvy was a constant threat. With unreliable-often homemade-charts, these intrepid explorers sailed in the stormy waters of the Southern Ocean below the Convergence, that sea frontier marking the boundary between the freezing Antarctic waters and the warmer sub-Antarctic seas. These men were the first to discover and exploit a new continent, which was not the verdant southern island they had imagined but an inhospitable expanse of rock and ice, ringed by pack ice and icebergs: Antarctica.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gurney, Alan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48913160667475,"sku":"9780393329049","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gurney-alan-alan-gurney-below-the-convergence-2007-paperback-9780393329049-58826005315923.jpg?v=1727813119","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/alan-gurney-below-the-convergence-2007-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}