Monday, January 4, 1999
Antarctic Peninsula: "Of Ice and Men"
As an irrepressibly inquisitive child, I would pore over maps of the great Southern land imagining infinitely white vistas, ice-encrusted shorelines and flocks of bizarre creatures engaged in all manner of noisy rituals.
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