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Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme: 400 Years of Adventure

Categorie	Ontdekkingsreizen & Expedities
Boeknummer	#254947
Titel	Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme: 400 Years of Adventure
Auteur	Landis, Marilyn J.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Chicago Review Press
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	1556524803
ISBN13	9781556524806
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	"The danger and excitement of Antarctic exploration are unmatched in the annals of adventure travel. Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme surveys four centuries and 40 expeditions to Antarctica, recounting, often in the explorersÆ own words, the wonders and the catastrophes they encountered. Fabulous sights, hair-raising escapes, and macabre deaths from storms and scurvy attended Ferdinand MagellanÆs 1520 passage through the southern straits and Captain John BiscoeÆs 1830 Antarctic circumnavigation. Nineteenth-century sealing and whaling expeditions from around the world are chronicled, and Ernest Shackleton's, Roald Amundsen's, and Robert Scott's anguishing trials of body and spirit in their separate struggles to reach the South Pole early in the 20th century are detai... (Lees verder)led. A final section describes Antarctica today, detailing the wildlife and geology of a region that is drawing an increasing number of visitors who, like the adventurers before them, are fascinated by the isolation, beauty, and challenge of the continent. This replaces 1556524285."
Pagina's	395
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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