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Farthest North: A History of the North Polar Exploration in Eyewitness Accounts by Clive Holland is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A few toes aren't much to give to achieve the Pole, observed Robert Peary, but as Clive Holland's gripping history of traveling across the polar ice cap shows, much more was at risk for the men who went as far north as possible. In addition to Peary's crowning triumph at the North Pole, there is the fourteen-year-old Horatio Nelson battling polar bears, the sinking of the Jeannette on De Long's push farthest north, Fridtjof Nansen's astonishing survival for two years in the Arctic, and the ill-f
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- Author
- Clive Holland
- Publisher
- New York: Carroll & Graf
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780786706808
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Polar Regions, Holocaust
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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