Voyage to Antarctica: An Odyssey to the Past, Present and Future of the Ge-lid Mysterious Continent

This book by Felix Bast is originally a diary and a travelogue. The author was on a short Antarctic summer trip and has tried to share his polar experiences. It is really admirable that a first-time-visitor to Antarctica was fired with the enthusiasm to chronicle his impressions! Even in his first exposure to Antarctica, the author appreciates the Indian Antarctic programme establishing great facilities in the remotest place on the earth, ‘…indubitably a remarkable achievement’. He recognizes that the pre-expedition training and interactions at Auli-India were useful preparations, ‘…the Antarctic veterans… the interactions I had with them were simply the best part of the whole acclimatization program’. He also rightly points out that ‘Climate change denialism is indeed a form of pseudoscience…’.