In search of the South Pole
Herbert, Kari2011
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This history combines discussions of the great polar voyages, and their scientific and imaginative import, with a range of rare materials -- photographs, artworks, ephemera -- to give us a biography not just of two explorers but of the South Pole itself.
Main title:
In search of the South Pole / by Kari Herbert and Huw Lewis-Jones; introduction by Ranulph Fiennes, [edited by Christopher Westhorp]
Imprint:
London Conway 2011
Collation:
192 p. colour illustrations maps
Contents:
The hidden continent -- Dawn of the heroic age -- Farthest south -- A race to the Pole -- The final march -- Of ice and men -- The last degree
ISBN:
9781844861378 (hbk)
Dewey class:
998.9 INS
Local class:
998.9
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
39834
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