At the midpoint of my virtual journey I am a long way from home. Here’s the extract from my trail on goodreads.com. You can follow my journey through the Americas here.
40: ANTARCTICA: Antarctica
**** Pete Wilkinson, From Deptford to Antarctica: The Long Way Home. What an appropriate title for my half-way point in this journey ATW! Deptford is just upstream from Greenwich, where I live, and the author was born in the same year as me, 1946. After dipping in an out of a number of jobs, he discovered a passion for the environment, which led him first to Friends of the Earth, and then to Greenpeace. The core of this book is taken from the logs of the five Greenpeace missions to Antarctica which he led, and the last one, two years later, where he helped to demolish the over-wintering base.
His voyages began and ended in New Zealand, and I was tempted to pop over there and tick off OCEANIA. But I have two more regions of America to “visit”, so it’s back to Tierra del Fuego, hoping I can be dropped off in the Chilean part.
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