Approaching Ice

ISBN-13: 9780892553556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 112 str.

Elizabeth Bradfield

Opis

This collection portrays the gripping history of polar exploration by channeling its most notable figures--Symmes, Mawson, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, Byrd, and Shackleton among them. From their perspectives and her own, Elizabeth Bradfield relays the wonders and dangers, physical and mental, encountered while endeavoring to reach the earth's least-hospitable regions.