Journey to the end of the Earth
Summary Introduction: Journey to the End of the Earth, written by Tishani Doshi, talks about her experience on the Antarctic continent during a research programme that takes high school students to the icy continent to study and understand climate change. The story begins with the author’s journey in a Russian vessel. It was headed towards Antarctica. The author has travels 100 hours in a car, airplane as well as the ship. The main objective of this trip is to learn about Antarctica. The place stores 90% of the earth’s total ice volumes with no trees, buildings or anything. The author wonders about the time when India and Antarctica were on the same landmass of a southern supercontinent, Gondwana. It existed for six hundred and fifty million years ago. All this was before the arrival of human beings. For 500 million years, Gondwana flourished. Thus, after the extinction of dinosaurs, the landmass separated into countries. Antarctica helps us to see the future. An...