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245 00 $aFarthest north :$bthe quest for the North Pole /$cedited by Clive Holland.
250 $a1st Carroll & Graf ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCarroll & Graf,$c1994.
300 $a305 pages, [8] pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
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500 $a"A history of North Polar exploration in eye-witness accounts"--Cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $a1. The Impossible Dream: 1527-1773 -- 2. The Dream Fades: 1818-27 -- 3. Revival of the 'Open Polar Sea': 1852-73 -- 4. The German and Austrian Expeditions: 1868-74 -- 5. The British Arctic Expedition: 1875-6 -- 6. De Long and the Jeannette: 1879-81 -- 7. Fridtjof Nansen: 1893-6 -- 8. Salomon August Andree: 1896-7 -- 9. The Italian Quest: 1899-1900 -- 10. Peary Enters the Arena: 1898-1906 -- 11. The American Onslaught: 1898-1909 -- 12. The Cook/Peary Feud. 1. Cook's Story: 1907-9. 2. Peary's Story: 1908-9 -- 13. The Coming of Aviation. 1. Roald Amundsen: 1925. 2. Richard Evelyn Byrd: 1926. 3. Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobile: 1926 -- 14. The Italia Disaster: 1928 -- 15. From New Technology to New Adventure: 1931-85 -- 16. Full Circle: 1977-93.
520 $aThe quest for the North Pole has for long been one of the great adventure stories in the history of exploration, yet it is a strange target for an explorer to aim at, for there is nothing there. It is an imaginary point in the middle of an ice-covered ocean. Its significance, of course, is that it is the northern end of the axis on which the earth rotates, but ancient Greek astronomers worked that out long ago, without ever leaving home. The Pole has never needed to be 'discovered'; its location has never been in doubt. For travellers now, getting to the North Pole is just an irresistibly enticing, romantic but utterly pointless thing to do. For some of those explorers who vied with each other to get there first, risking and sometimes losing their lives, whose stories form the subject of this book, it was the most important thing in life.
651 0 $aNorth Pole$xDiscovery and exploration.
651 0 $aArctic regions$xDiscovery and exploration.
650 7 $aDiscoveries in geography.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00894950
651 7 $aArctic Ocean$zNorth Pole.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01242502
651 7 $aArctic Regions.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01240227
651 7 $aPo le Nord$xDe couverte et exploration.$2ram
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