Ocean Notorious

Stories from outposts of the Southern Ocean the windiest roughest most isolated and most important ocean on the planet. Venture to the deep south and you will experience a world like no other – forbidding subantarctic islands astounding sea creatures death-defying plants the constant company of birds and if you travel far enough the towering ice cliffs and dead valleys of Antarctica. Few people visit this remote and mysterious region but for some the lure is irresistible. As an expedition guide Matt Vance has accompanied intrepid tourists and birders artists and writers. In Ocean Notorious he gives a moving first-person account of the lonely places where lives have been changed and history made - from the obsessive explorers of the heroic era to solo sailors in tiny yachts marooned wartime coastwatchers and ruthless plunderers of wildlife to today’s dreamers drifters and passionate preservationists.