Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration

by Robert Feeney

Book Overview

In this unique book, distinguished biochemist Robert E. Feeney relates the history of polar exploration to the history of the science of nutrition, showing, for example, how advances in food preservation helped make possible human survival on the expeditions. The text covers the problems caused by too scant a supply of vitamins, most notably the role of diminished vitamin C in scurvy and too much of a good thing, in the case of hypervitaminosis from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0841233497
• ISBN13: 9780841233492
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.