Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica

John Harrison’s Forgotten Footprints is the untold story

of the sailors, sealers and eccentrics who discovered the

last continent: Antarctica.

A thrilling record of lost triumph and tragedy, a saga

of adventure and ambition against all odds, and a

compelling insight into extraordinary personalities

and the times that shaped them, Forgotten Footprints

captures the fascination of this most extreme,

mysterious and beautiful of environments in John

Harrison’s characteristically vivid and affecting prose.