![]() ![]() Sancton, an American journalist who visited Antarctica for his research, structures his tale around three main characters: Adrien de Gerlache, a Belgian naval officer and the expedition’s leader Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian polar explorer who served as the Belgica’s first mate and Frederick Cook, the voyage’s “lone Yankee,” a New York doctor with a “peninsula of a nose. “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” tells the story of the Belgian Antarctic expedition. ![]() Belgium had declared independence from Holland only 67 years earlier, and with the voyage of the Belgica, writes Julian Sancton, the young nation “was staking a claim to the next frontier of human exploration.” A pacifist at heart, he dreamed of a life at sea, an unusual fascination for a boy growing up in Belgium, which, after its secession from Holland in the 1830 revolution, was left with a virtually. She was departing for Antarctica, still a land of fable in the last years of the 19th century. 16, 1897, 20,000 Belgians lined the wharves of Antwerp to wave off the Belgica, a 113-foot three-masted steam whaler. 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth' By Julian Sancton I just finished 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth' By Julian Sancton and thought it was a great read and could use some love on this sub. Photo: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Belgica anchored at Antarctica’s Mount William. ![]()
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