Alfred Scott McLaren

Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (Ssn-651)

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Produktbeschreibung

Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• First Edition
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780817359775
• ISBN-10: 081735977X
• Artikelnr.: 57752339

Autorenporträt

Alfred S. McLaren is a retired US Navy Captain, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal and two Legions of Merit, president emeritus of The Explorers Club, senior pilot of the SAS Aviator submersible, and president of The American Polar Society. William R. Anderson was skipper of USS Nautilus (SSN-571) during that vessel's 1958 achievement of the North Pole and historic Pacific to Atlantic crossing of the Arctic Ocean. He was subsequently awarded the Legion of Merit by President Eisenhower and, following his retirement from the Navy, elected to the U.S. Congress from Tennessee for four terms. He died in 2007 and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.