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Roald Amundsen - my life as an explorer.
LIBRA G585.A6 A3 1927
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928.
- Amundsen, Roald.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--Norwegian.
- Northwest Passage.
- Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Norwegian.
- Antarctica.
- South Pole--Discovery and exploration--Norwegian.
- South Pole.
- Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Norwegian.
- Arctic regions.
- North Pole--Discovery and exploration--Norwegian.
- North Pole.
- Explorers--Norway--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Norway.
- Arctic Regions.
- Aeronautics--Flights.
- Aeronautics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 4 preliminary leaves, 282 pages : including illustrations (facsimiles) maps, diagrams, frontispiece ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- My life as an explorer.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927.
- Contents:
- Early memories.- Ice-bound in the Antarctic.- The conquest of the Northwest passage.- The dash to the South pole.- In the grip of the northern ice pack.- Financial worries.- An airplane flight with Lincoln Ellsworth.- The transpolar flight of the Norge.- Concerning Mr. Stefansson and others.- The serious business of exploration.- Problems of food and equipment.- Appendix: Refutation of various points in Nobile's lectures in America.
- Notes:
- "First edition."
- OCLC:
- 1262597
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