Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance - Softcover

Neider, Charles

 
9780815410232: Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0815410239 ISBN 13: 9780815410232
Verlag: Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S., 2000

Inhaltsangabe

One of the last remaining frontiers, there are few places as forbidding, or as intriguing, as Antarctica. This collection of self-contained excerpts from journals and memoirs chronicles the journeys of fourteen daring adventurers in the highest, driest, windiest, coldest, and most remote of the seven continents. Blizzards, frostbite, snow blindness, scurvy, food shortages and shipwrecks were common occurrences. Faced with terrifying isolation and the world's harshest conditions, not everyone survived. These harrowing firsthand narratives stand as tributes to the limitless ambition and pioneering spirit of man.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Novelist, editor, Mark Twain scholar, and Antarctic explorer, Charles Neider has edited The Fabulous Insects: Essays by the Foremost Nature Writers, Man Against Nature, and Great Shipwrecks and Castaways . He is also the author of Edge of the World: Ross Island, Antarctica. He lives in Princeton, NJ.

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Verlag
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0815410239
ISBN 13 
9780815410232
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
460
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