"Saving the future by protecting the past! The race to the South Pole is heating up! Geronimo Stilton is the editor of the Rodent's Gazette, the most famouse paper on Mouse Island. In his free time he loves to tell stories. Here, Geronimo has to face his worst enemies, the Pirate Cats, who have discovered a way to travel back in time and change history. It's a race to the bottom of the world when Gerohimo and his friends Trappy, Benjamin, Trap and Tea, join explorer Roald Amundsen's expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911. From Norway, through Portugal and then straight on to the Bay of Whales in Antarctica. They'll have to evade the sneaky sabotage of the Pirate Cats to make sure Amundsen is the very first person to reach the South Pole!"-- Provided by publisher