Review of The life of Jose Maria Sobral: scientist, diarist, and pioneer in Antarctica, by Mary R. Tahan (2018). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 336 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-67267-0

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Millar, P
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research 2018
• Subjects: Studies in Human Society; Other Studies in Human Society; Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentine; Mara; Hill Island; Snow Hill Island; Sobral; Snow Hill; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3756/9970; https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v38.3756; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/136994

A very young man, the first Argentine to explore and work in Antarctica, a man alone in many ways, a man who kept a diary: Jos Mara Sobral (18801961) was a member of the Swedish South Polar Expedition (19011903) shore party of six men, headed by Professor Otto Nordenskjld, which worked on Snow Hill...