Roald Amundsen - Softcover

Bomann-Larsen, Tor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750943440 ISBN 13: 9780750943444

Publisher: History Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

On 14 December 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first human beings to reach the South Pole, just over a month before Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova expedition. He had already led the first expedition to traverse the North West Passage, and would go on to lead the first successful attempt to cross the Arctic by air (perhaps even becoming the first to reach the North Pole, according to some interpretations). Yet his personal life was messy to say the least, with a string of mistresses, including Eskimo girls he brought back to Norway, and a poisonous relationship with his brother. He disappeared in 1928 while taking part in an airborne rescue mission in the Arctic; his body was never found. Tor Bomann-Larsen’s account of his life is the only full biography of Amundsen to be published in English.

About this edition

• Publisher: History Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0750943440
• ISBN 13: 9780750943444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432