Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Polar Regions

In 1911 Roald Amundsen beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole, and Scott and his colleagues all died on the return journey. Ernest Shackleton, who had served with Scott on a previous expedition, decided that crossing Antarctica from sea to sea was the last great unattempted journey on the continent. His Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17 was a failure. But perhaps because it failed, with Shackleton not only surviving but bringing his crew back alive, the expedition became more famous than many of those adventurous voyages that succeeded.

After reaching the Weddell Sea...

Rosemary Dunn Moeller grew up devouring books by Thor Hyerdahl, Tim Severin, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Herman Melville, and others whose reports of life at sea bested novels and films.

In Northwest Africa, she met her future husband, Lester (a South Dakota farm boy), and when they saw their first wild penguin on a trip to the Galapagos Islands, she knew she simply had to see more wild penguins, so she set her sights on Antarctica.

Once there, she became immersed in the beauty and fragility of the coldest, least populated continent on earth. She saw glaciers, whales, penguins,...

Gold Fever is one of the really Great Adventure Stories It is the riveting (and true) arctic, action filled stories with never before seen original photos of Northern History, Alaska, Yukon, Squaw Creek, Haines, and Kluane Lake

Now an old Sourdough, Austin tells about his first trip to Squaw Creek in 1932 and the friends he met. He went there to mine gold with his famous gold-mining aunt, Frances Muncaster This is about the real arctic pioneers --

The memories and original photos of Frances Noyes. the daughter in law of Judge Noyes...

Gold Fever is one of the really Great Arctic Adventure Stories It is the riveting (and true) arctic, action filled stories with never before seen photos of Northern History, Alaska, Squaw Creek, Haines, and Kluane Lake

Now an old Sourdough, Austin tells about his first trip to Squaw Creek in 1932, when he was 19. He went there to mine gold with his famous gold-mining aunt, Frances Muncaster This is about the real arctic pioneers -- Did you know Wyat Earp and Jack London were up in Nome? Along with Jack Dalton who owned the Dalton Trail.