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(0)Roland Huntford
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxi, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. December 2011 marks the centenary of the conclusion to the last great race of terrestrial discovery. For the first time Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the...
2) Shackleton
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 774 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 191 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there"--
At home in Norway it is eight oclock on Christmas Eve night, but ahead, at the AmundsenScott base that has been visible for hours, it is already early in the morning of Christmas Day when Liv Arnesen, after skiing solo for 745 miles in fifty days, finally arrives. She had been dreaming of the South Pole for most of her forty-one years, and now, even in...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (390 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the race to the South Pole in 1911 between rival explorers: the Englishman Scott and the Norwegian Amundsen. In an effort to be the first to plant his country's flag at the South Pole, Scott and Amundsen undertook a 1,500-mile trek across the frozen wastes of Antarctica, facing danger, extreme suffering, and death.