Excerpt from The Antarctic Manual: For the Use of the Expedition of 1901 These Arctic manuals served their purpose, by giving easy access to information, otherwise inaccessible, which was required by the officers in their scientific investigations. Nor did their usefulness cease with the return of the expedition. They have been sought after and valued by subsequent Arctic explorers. Baron N orden skjold has told me that, during the voyage of the Vega, when the N orth-east Passage was discovered, the books most in request were the blue book and the white book, as they called the Arctic manuals. I was convinced that an Antarctic Manual' for the Expedition of 1901 would be even more useful, if prepared with the same object in View and on similar lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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