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"A history of North Polar exploration in eye-witness accounts"--Cover Includes bibliographical references 1. The Impossible Dream: 1527-1773 -- 2. The Dream Fades: 1818-27 -- 3. Revival of the 'Open Polar Sea': 1852-73 -- 4. The German and Austrian Expeditions: 1868-74 -- 5. The British Arctic Expedition: 1875-6 -- 6. De Long and the Jeannette: 1879-81 -- 7. Fridtjof Nansen: 1893-6 -- 8. Salomon August Andree: 1896-7 -- 9. The Italian Quest: 1899-1900 -- 10. Peary Enters the Arena: 1898-1906 -- 11. The American Onslaught: 1898-1909 -- 12. The Cook/Peary Feud. 1. Cook's Story: 1907-9. 2. Peary's Story: 1908-9 -- 13. The Coming of Aviation. 1. Roald Amundsen: 1925. 2. Richard Evelyn Byrd: 1926. 3. Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobile: 1926 -- 14. The Italia Disaster: 1928 -- 15. From New Technology to New Adventure: 1931-85 -- 16. Full Circle: 1977-93 The quest for the North Pole has for long been one of the great adventure stories in the history of exploration, yet it is a strange target for an explorer to aim at, for there is nothing there. It is an imaginary point in the middle of an ice-covered ocean. Its significance, of course, is that it is the northern end of the axis on which the

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Author

Clive Holland

Publisher

Carroll & Graf Publ

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786701285

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14