Mighty Bad Land

Mighty Bad Land is a tale of grit and real teamwork; even in the harshest elements, the hunger for knowledge and the key to the truth reign supreme. This is an unembellished story of a scientist and his team exploring the last wilderness on Earth, Antarctica. But, unlike most recent books on Antarctica, the reader becomes embedded with geologist Bruce Luyendyk’s team and experiences firsthand the challenges, companionship, failures, bravery, cowardice, and success that scientific research in an unforgiving place brings to light. In addition, Bruce takes readers to a pure wilderness experienced by few humans—a place where unseen menace waits everywhere. As leader of the expedition, Luyendyk successfully faces up to his demons that surface under the extreme duress of his experience, like nearly losing two team members. The story fills a gap in the time of Antarctic exploration, between the Heroic age, the military exploration age, and the modern age of science on the continent with GPS,