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The last Viking the life of Roald Amundsen

Main Author: Bown, Stephen R.
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Amundsen, Roald, > 1872-1928.
Explorers > Norway > Biography.
Northwest Passage > Discovery and exploration > Norwegian.
Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Norwegian.
North Pole > Discovery and exploration > Norwegian.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration > Norwegian.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. West
  • The boy from the Mountain Kingdom
  • Polar apprentice
  • An extraordinary plan
  • Where Franklin died
  • An education at Gjøahavn
  • 2. South
  • "I resolved upon a coup"
  • The Napoleon of the Poles
  • Dogs and skis
  • A featureless expanse of snow
  • 3. East
  • A hero returns
  • A new battlefield
  • The frozen reaches of Tartary
  • 4. North
  • Grounded dreams
  • The Arctic Phoenix
  • The dirigible and the fascist
  • A massed attack on the polar regions
  • 5. Lost
  • No more Poles to conquer
  • Epilogue: the end of the Heroic Age.

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