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A History of Polar Exploration

Laurence Patrick Kirwan

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Description:It is just over fifty years since the climax of the heroic age of Polar exploration. Scott, on his last journey, reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find there the Norwegian flag planted by Amundsen on 14 December 1911. The North Pole had already been attained by Peary on 6 April 1909.This book, by the Director of the Royal Geographical Society, is the first complete history to cover both arctic and antarctic exploration. It begins three hundred years before the Christian era, when Pytheas steered his square-sailed Greek galley to the edge of the "curdled sea", and ends with the trans-polar journeys of Sir Vivian Fuchs and of the nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus. Laurence Kirwan's enthralling account provides a comprehensive survey of man's heroic explorations at the ends of the earth.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A History of Polar Exploration. To get started finding A History of Polar Exploration, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 374

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Release: 1960

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Description: It is just over fifty years since the climax of the heroic age of Polar exploration. Scott, on his last journey, reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find there the Norwegian flag planted by Amundsen on 14 December 1911. The North Pole had already been attained by Peary on 6 April 1909.This book, by the Director of the Royal Geographical Society, is the first complete history to cover both arctic and antarctic exploration. It begins three hundred years before the Christian era, when Pytheas steered his square-sailed Greek galley to the edge of the "curdled sea", and ends with the trans-polar journeys of Sir Vivian Fuchs and of the nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus. Laurence Kirwan's enthralling account provides a comprehensive survey of man's heroic explorations at the ends of the earth.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A History of Polar Exploration. To get started finding A History of Polar Exploration, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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