Assumed first edition. Binding tight, interior clean and bright. Clean black boards with gilt lettering, minor bumping to bottom spine end. Dust jacket clean and in fine condition, preserved in mylar wrap. Biography of Lincoln Ellsworth, polar explorer. 312 pages including notes, bibliography and index.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Polar Extremes: The World of Lincoln Ellsworth

Publisher

University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, Alaska

Publication Date

2002

Language

English

ISBN 10

1889963437

ISBN 13

9781889963433

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good to Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Synopsis

For many years, Lincoln Ellsworth's remarkable polar expeditions and discoveries were eclipsed by those of his famous friend Roald Amundsen and their rival Admiral Byrd. In Polar Extremes, Beekman Pool reveals the full story of Ellsworth's triumphs in his quest for unknown land, first in the Arctic, then in Antarctica.

Moving to and from the Poles, the saga is filled with colorful anecdotes and vivid quotations that recount the hero's tales of polar flights, crash landings, narrow escapes, and eventual triumphs. As impossible at it seems today, Ellsworth's 1926 attempt to fly across the North Pole with Roald Amundsen and Umberto Nobile was made in a dirigible. In 1935, he flew in his own custom-made plane over Antarctica and discovered the mountain range now called the Ellsworths.

A meticulously researched history and an adventure story fraught with life and death drama, the book is also a rich biographical portrait. Pool's sweeping view of twentieth-century polar exploration by air and sea is a story of daring, courage, and camaraderie, but also of the conflict, intrigue, and cunning that bedeviled polar explorers driven to be "the first." As Pool reveals the more intimate and personal side of Ellsworth's ambitious life, we understand the title Polar Extremes as a metaphor, suggesting the stark contrasts that define the passionate but essentially lonely hero. For all his competitive zeal in traveling across forbidding ice, Ellsworth also sought nature's beauty far away from his father's world of finance and luxurious leisure.

An exciting book for any reader in search of adventure, Polar Extremes is also a valuable reference for historians, scholars, and polar exploration buffs seeking a well-documented history.

Review

Beekman Pool has given us a fascinating and detailed portrait of one of America's greatest polar explorers, a man who was simultaneously a pioneer of high-latitutde aviation.

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