Now Available in Paperback!
Carleton College has published a new edition of Cold: The Record of an Antarctic Sledge Journey to commemorate the centennial year of exploration in Earth's most remote continent. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundson led the first successful expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving on December 14, 1911.
The riveting account of an adventurous
undertaking by Laurence McKinley Gould, the extraordinary leader and
scholar who served as president of Carleton from 1945 to 1962, a seminal
time in the college’s history. Dr. Gould was the Second in Command on
the Byrd Antarctic Expedition 1928-30. Contains 50+ historic images
scanned from the 1931 edition of Cold and materials at the National
Archives.
"More than 80 years ago, Larry Gould went to Antarctica as second in
command on Richard E. Byrd’s first expedition to that frozen, beautiful,
mysterious and dangerous continent. Antarctic exploration has changed
significantly since this time, yet Gould’s story continues to fascinate.
His frank, and often poetic account of the sledge journey details life
on the trail, including such things as the men and their relationship to
the dogs, the joy in geological discoveries, and of course, the cold….
the brutal, biting, undeniable cold. Appropriate for the casual reader
as well as the polar scholar, Cold remains an important account of life
as an expedition member on what would be one of the most important
expeditions in Antarctic exploration history."--Laura J. Kissel, Polar
Curator, Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program.
