THE WHITE SOUTH
The White South is a story of the sea and of the vast Antarctic icefields. The great whaling factory ship Southern Cross, of more than 20,000 tons, is caught and crushed in the deadly embrace of the polar ice, and five hundred men face death in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic. News that the ship had been abandoned was the last message to reach the outside world - and then came silence. The impenetrable barrier of the ice had closed around the Southern Cross and her men, the rescue ships were forced to return to base, and all hope was abandoned.