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An English Amateur in Antarctica

Martin Burton, has wanted to travel to exotic places since leaving school at the age of sixteen, but for 30 years the City of London diverted him with the "smell of money". With two friends, he set out by ski, kite and sail to reach across six hundred miles of frozen land to reach the nearest sea-ice in Hercules inlet. This is his daily story with some extraordinary photographs.

This is the story of an extraordinary person doing a very extraordinary thing in a totally extraordinary place. Reading these pages you feel Martin's determination and humility. You will read how I and others in the Polar world let him down with empty gestures and promises, but this did not deter him and he continued on with his plan to make the full journey of nearly seven hundred statute miles from the Pole to the first sea ice. This is a special achievement, and ranks him, for what it is worth, with a very select few. Robert Swan OBE

Most books on modern day Antarctic expeditions trumpet hardship and danger. Martin Burton's account of his 600 mile trek from the South Pole to the edge of Antarctica makes a refreshing change. A dry, no nonsense and disarmingly honest account of his trip across this barren continent makes for a gem of a tale. No stranger to taking risks at his desk, Burton applies the same objective approach and pragmatic approach to dealing with the myriad frustrations, tensions and elations that are all part of 'life on ice'. A great read. Alex Blyth, Financial News, London
(who walked to the South Pole the same month as Burton's journey).

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