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Antarctic Basalt

An Antarctic Quest in the Days of

Dog-sledge Travel

Lewis Juckes

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A fascinating story of the last days when dog-sledges were essential for most Antarctic fieldwork.
Highlights a time when low-level technology and the lax safety considerations will be unheard of to a
modern audience.
The author has actual experience of working is such dangerous and difficult conditions.

“By 1st February the unloading had been completed, and when the ice anchors had been recovered the ship
drew slowly away from the ice edge. The dull weather could not suppress the thrill that pulsed through me –
this was the real start of my adventure. Up till then I could at any time have turned back. It might have been
embarrassing, inconvenient, or expensive, but it had been possible. Now there would be no more direct contact
with the outside world until the ship returned for another brief week or so in a year’s time. There was no air link,
established or even planned. Was any other workplace in the world as isolated? Even in the Antarctic, did any
other base have so fleeting a relief? Together with my companions I was irrevocably committed.”

Lewis Juckes describes the many new experiences lay ahead over the next two years, first while living in huts
buried deep within the snow and then in the field with dog teams for transport and tents for accommodation.
Thrills and rare sights were there, as well as scares and dangers – and tragedy within the close-knit group. This
was Antarctica in the mid-1960s.

Lewis Juckes grew up in South Africa and graduated in Geology in 1963. Working for the British Antarctic
Survey, he spent two years in the Antarctic mapping remote mountains by dog-sledge. After moving to the steel
industry, he retired in 2000. He is married, with three children and six grandchildren and lives in Middlesbrough.

Publication Date: 28th January 2024 £19.99 ISBN: 9781805142041
Thema subject category: DNBA – Autobiography: general
paperback 216 x 138 mm 464 pp Portrait Author location: Middlesborough

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