Modern Methods in the Antarctic

Abstract

THANKS to the restraint on publicity imposed by the practice of exclusive copyright in news, most English newspaper readers have been kept nearly as ignorant of Admiral Byrd's second expedition to Little America as of the financing of Irish hospitals or evidence in the divorce courts. As a result there has been a vague impression that the expedition was a lavishly equipped pleasure trip intent on photographing films of sensational gtunts and making exaggerated claims to amazing discoveries. It is for this reason that I welcome the opportunity of reviewing Admiral Byrd's book and endeavouring as far as I can stretch the allotted space to direct attention to the solid achievements of the expedition .

Antarctic Discovery:

the Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. By Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Pp. xxii + 421 + 47 plates. (London: Putnam and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 18s. net.