Confines : Navegando aguas árticas y antárticas

Where to go when you've traveled the world as much as Javier Reverte? As he himself says, the planet seems to grow larger the more you know it, and there are always new landscapes opening up to dreams and the yearning to explore. That's why he has chosen the northern and southern extremes of the globe as his destination this time: two voyages through the Arctic and Antarctic seas, undertaken just a few months apart, which form the heart of this new travel book. A polar spring unfolds aboard a Norwegian research vessel, venturing into the Arctic islands of Svalbard and continuing northward, to latitudes very close to the North Pole. In his narrative, he not only recounts the adventures of the voyage, but also the explorations in search of the planet's northernmost reaches, the effects of climate change and global warming, and the threats that hang over humanity as a result. October at Cape Horn explores the channels, islands, straits, peninsulas, mountain ranges, and secluded seas of Tierra del Fuego, reaching Cape Horn Island. It tells of the voyages of Magellan, Raleigh, FitzRoy, Darwin, and other explorers, and of Ushuaia, the city at the end of the world, and its infamous prison.