Near Death in the Arctic (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kuhne, Cecil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The fine snow choked his eyes, ears, and throat, and he did not hear his own smothered death cry. Down in cold blackness, 150 feet down, his falling body smashed into a projecting ledge of ironclad ice. With the shattered remains of his sledge, with the doomed dogs, Belgrave Ninnis plunged deeper and deeper into the abyss.” —Lennard Bickel's Mawson's Will. In Near Death in the Arctic, editor Cecil Kuhne gathers astonishing tales of man versus nature, all set against the bleakly beautiful backdrop of the poles of the earth. On foot, by ship, or by dog-powered sledge, these adventurers brave the most savage and desolate environment on earth, their instinct for self-preservation and survival exceeded only by their desire for excitement and discovery. Also featuring: Captain Roald Amundsen's The South Pole—The heart-pounding story of Amundsen's race to be the first man to reach both Poles despite driving snow, exhausted dogs, and towering glaciers. Ernest Shackleton's South—A riveting memoir of the doomed Endurance, which became trapped in dangerous pack ice that eventually tore the ship apart.Mike Stroud's Shadows on the Wasteland—The unbelievable account of a two-man, ninety-day trek across the Antarctic continent through temperatures as low as minus eighty-five degrees Celsius.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307793720
• Artikelnr.: 39248578

Autorenporträt

Cecil Kuhne is the editor of two previous anthologies on adventure travel, On the Edge and The Armchair Paddler. A former whitewater rafting guide, he has also written nine books about rafting, kayaking, and canoeing. He lives in Dallas.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Foreword From Polar Dream
Helen Thayer
In the Land of White Death
An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
Valerian Albanov
The South Pole
An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram,” 1910–1912
Captain Roald Amundsen
Mawson’s Will
The Greatest Survival Story Ever Written
Lennard Bickel
Alone
Richard E. Byrd
The Worst Journey In The World
Antarctic 1910–13
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Ice Bird
The First Single-Handed Voyage To Antarctica
David Lewis
Farthest North
Dr. Fridtjof Nansen
The North Pole
Its Discovery In 1909 Under The Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club
Robert E. Peary
Scott’s Last Expedition
The Personal Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, C.V.O., R.N., on His Journey
to the South Pole
Robert Falcon Scott
South
A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Ernest Shackleton
Shadows on the Wasteland
Mike Stroud
Shackleton’s Boat Journey
The Narrative from the Captain of the Endurance
Frank Arthur Worsley
Notes on the Contributors
Permissions Acknowledgments