Antarctica is the world's coldest, windiest, driest, wildest, cleanest, emptiest and quietest continent. Humans have never been more than visitors there, and only since the last century. Antarctica is the one place on our planet where international co-operation has succeeded - so far. But the Antarctica Treaty is due for renegotiation and the continents valuable mineral resources make it a very vulnerable 10% of the world's land mass. Historical, scientific and descriptive accounts of the past, present and future of the last wilderness on Earth combine to make this a topical book. Meredith Hooper is a qualified historian who has been on the editorial board of "The Round Table" (The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs) from 1988 and is a member of the Association of British Science Writers.
- ISBN10 0330322400
- ISBN13 9780330322409
- Publish Date 8 November 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 May 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 144
- Language English