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Explores some of the famous adventures of Ernest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen. This title narrates stories far less well known to tell of poisonings, cannibalism, false claims, near misses and the feared killer of the polar regions - scurvy.
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Take a voyage of discovery into the 'Heroic Age' of polar exploration. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth, explorers from around the world navigated the Northwest Passage and the Northeast Passage, attained the North and South Poles, crossed the Arctic Basin and first flew airships and airplanes in the Arctic and Antarctic, conquering one of nature's last, closely guarded bastions. Through facsimile items, "Polar Exploration" narrates the famous stories of Earnest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson and Captain Oates and those less well-known, such as poisonings, mysterious disappearances, false claims, near misses controversies, accusations of cannibalism and the first Antarctic wintering (which drove men to madness). Facsimile items will provisionally include: maps and log books; and, personal diaries, letters and notes.
About the Author:
Beau Riffenburgh specializes in polar exploration. He earned his doctorate degree at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge and was editor of Polar Record, the world's oldest journal of polar research, the head of the Polar History Group at the Scott Polar Research Institute and a lecturer in the history faculty of the University of Cambridge. He has written several books on exploration and for Andre Deutsch he wrote the Royal Geographical Society Exploration Experience (2007) and The Titanic Experience (2008).
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- PublisherAndre Deutsch Ltd
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0233002634
- ISBN 13 9780233002637
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large hardcover with illustrated boards in Fine condition, slipcase in Fine condition. colour illustrations and folding maps, index. Facsimile memorabilia will include: Scott's final diary entry; pages from Amundsen's 1911 diary describing how he reached the South Pole; and, a letter from Shackleton before he set off on his expedition aboard the Endurance. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth, explorers from around the world conquered nature's last closely guarded bastions. Between them they navigated the Northwest and Northeast Passages, attained the North and South Poles, crossed the Arctic Basin and first flew airships and airplanes in the Arctic and Antarctic. "Polar Exploration" recounts the famous adventures of Ernest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen but also narrates stories far less well known to tell of poisonings, cannibalism, false claims, near misses and the feared killer of the polar regions - scurvy. Seller Inventory # 011988
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