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A Short History of Polar Exploration
A Short History of Polar Exploration

A Short History of Polar Exploration

Short History

HISTORY

160 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB, PDF, Mobipocket

Trade Paper, $19.99 (US $19.99) (CA $26.99)

Publication Date: May 2014

ISBN 9781843440901

Rights: US & MX

Oldcastle Books Ltd (May 2014)
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Overview

An absorbing history, bringing explorers' tales vividly to life 

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, said "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised." Yet there has never been a shortage of volunteers willing to endure the bad times in pursuit of the glory that polar exploration sometimes brings. This compelling book tells the memorable stories of the men and women who have risked their lives by entering the white wastelands of the Arctic and the Antarctic, from the compelling tales of Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen, to lesser known heroes such as Fridtjof Nansen and Robert Peary. This history also looks at the hold that the polar regions have often had on the imaginations of artists and writers in the last 200 years examining the paintings, films, and literature that they have inspired.

Author Biography

Nick Rennison is a bookseller, author, and editor whose titles include 100 Must-Read Classic Novels, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, and the Pocket Essentials Guide to Robin Hood.