Plain Tales from Antarctica are short stories based on real incidents that occurred during the author's two-year stay as a meteorologist at Halley 3, a British Research base in Antarctica located about 500 miles from the South Pole.
In 1973 to 1975, Graham Chambers was part of an eighteen-man (no women) research group that lived in this fascinating yet unforgiving landscape.
He writes:
"It was a unique experience and one with sights, sounds and smells which are not forgotten after forty years.
"Each story is based on real events and...
Plain Tales from Antarctica are short stories based on real incidents that occurred during the author's two-year stay as a meteorologist a...