Antarctic Conquest
{{Short description|Book by Finn Ronne}}
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Antarctic Conquest: the Story of the Ronne Expedition 1946-1948 is a 1949 science book by Norwegian-American Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne and science fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, published in hardcover by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The role of de Camp, who was commissioned as a ghost writer to recast Ronne's manuscript into publishable form, is uncredited. Ronne's working title was reportedly "Conquering the Antarctic".{{cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | author2=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | year=1983 | page=26}}
Summary
The book relates the story of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica from 1947–1948.
Relationship to other works
De Camp's work with Ronne is reflected in two of his contemporary Viagens Interplanetarias science fiction stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. One, the short story "Calories," adopts an Antarctic setting not utilized in any of the series's other stories; in the other, the novel The Hand of Zei, the protagonist adopts the alias of an inhabitant of the planet's Antarctic and is, like de Camp, employed as a ghostwriter for his explorer boss.
Notes
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External links
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/210999 Book review in the Geographical Review, v. 40, no. 1 (Jan. 1950), pp. 154-155]
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Category:1949 non-fiction books
Category:Books by L. Sprague de Camp
Category:Exploration of Antarctica
Category:Books about Antarctica
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