9780470153802 - Return to Antarctica: The Amazing Adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scott's Journey to the South Pole von Raeside, Adrian (14 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Return to Antarctica: The Amazing Adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scott's Journey to the South Pole This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Spine bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; ix, 324 p. : ill., ports., maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-306) and index. Subjects; Wright, Charles S. (Charles Seymour) 1887-1975 Travel Antarctica. Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912 Travel Antarctica. Wright, Charles S. (Charles Seymour) 1887-1975. Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912. Expeditions: 1910-13 Scott. Biographies: Wright, Charles Seymour. Diaries and expedition journals. Expeditions and exploration. Antarctica Discovery and exploration British. Antarctic regions. Ross Dependency. 3 Kg.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The amazing adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scott's journey to the South Pole By 1910, the Antarctic was the last place on earth that had never been explored, and British naval officer Robert Scott was obsessed that an Englishman - specifically himself - should conquer the pole. Despite being under-funded, under-equipped and unprepared, Scott sailed south in the antiquated whaling ship, Terra Nova, in what everyone assumed would be a cracking good adventure. The expedition was made up entirely of British adventurers, gadabouts and scientists, the exception being one Canadian, Charles Seymour (Silas) Wright. Born 1887 in Toronto, Charles Wright was studying physics in Cambridge when he heard Scott was looking for a physicist to join the expedition to the pole. By the time Wright inquired, Scott had chosen a physicist for the team but was short a glaciologist. Who else but a Canadian would know about glaciers? Wright became the expedition's glaciologist. Halfway through the rough passage to the Antarctic, Scott got word that a rival explorer, Norwegian Roald Amundsen, was also making a run for the pole and was close on their heels. What started out as a stroll to the South Pole became a race between two very determined and different men. Arriving at their base camp on Cape Evans in January 1911, Scott's team soon discovered they were unprepared for the Antarctic, while equipment failures and food shortages compounded the hardship. For the final race to the pole, Scott stripped the team down to four men, and Wright did not make the cut. Scott reached the geographic South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten them by days. Bitterly disappointed, Scott and his companions returned to base camp, but were caught in a fierce Antarctic blizzard that raged for days. Too weak to pull their sleds and out of food and fuel, they froze to death. Ironically, as if to underscore the litany of errors that dogged the expedition, they perished only a few miles from a cache of food and fuel. Next spring Wright led a search party to look for the remains of Scott and his party, and it was the sharp-eyed Wright who spotted a small patch of green on a snowy landscape - the tent containing Scott and his companions' frozen bodies. Wright returned to England and went on to do even more extraordinary things, including inventing trench wireless in WWI, and working closely with Winston Churchill, developing the technology to assist in the allied invasion of Europe in WWII which included developing the first radar installations and inventing the technology that neutralized German magnetic sea mines After a stint as naval attach to Washington, D.C., and Director of Scripps Oceanographic institute in La Jolla, California, he retired to Salt Spring Island, BC, passing away in 1975. Typically Canadian, Wright was modest about his accomplishments, with few Canadians aware of his amazing life and the extraordinary impact he had on the 20th century.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a fine, slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Well-preserved overall. Physical description; ix, 324 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index. Subjects; Wright, Charles S. (Charles Seymour) (1887-1975). Scott, Robert Falcon (1868-1912). British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913). Antarctica Discovery and exploration British. 3 Kg.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Black cloth, silver titles, illustrated dust-jacket. 324 pages. Illustrated. This book is as new, save for the addition of a decorative initial "P" stamped to the front endpaper as evidence of previous ownership.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Wonderful account of Sir Charles Wright's work and Raeside's own journey. pp.ix.324. Illus. Maps. Ex-library; internal stamps, ffep missing. No external marks. DW in archival sleeve.