François Garde had published in 2018 the fascinating journey which had led him, for three weeks at the end of 2015, to cross from north to south Kerguelen, a French island on the borders of the roaring forties, 3000 kilometers south of Reunion.
Today, his adventure reappears, illustrated with a hundred photos taken at the time by two of his fellow travelers, Michael Charavin and Bertrand Lesort.
Without diminishing the quality of the original text, we can only applaud this initiative which gives all its strength to this journey in the heart of a formidable land discovered in 1772 by Yves Joseph de Kerguelen.
When he left for this remote land in November 2015, François Garde knew where he was going.
In 2000, he was appointed senior administrator of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
He went to the archipelago ten times.
Noting that Kerguelen, like a
"magnet",
kept returning to his books, he planned to return there to write.
Crossing Kerguelen on foot means exposing myself to hostile terrain, with no path, no respite or comfort
Francois Garde
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