Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2005. Octavo, paperback,

WAS $33. Forbidding, vast, spectacular, lonely: each is a word that springs to mind when we think of Antarctica. A world of endless ice, remote mountain ranges, and weather so fierce that only the hardiest of explorers could hope to meet its many challenges. But there's another Antarctica, too, that comes alive in Roff Smith's vivid pages, a place of extraordinary beauty that can capture the imagination and lure men and women back year after year.