A short history of polar exploration / Nick Rennison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rennison, Nick, 1955-

Series:

Short History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polar regions--History.

Polar regions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An absorbing history, bringing explorers' tales vividly to life Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, said ""Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised."" Yet there has never been a shortage of volunteers willing to endure the bad times in pursuit of the glory that polar exploration sometimes brings. This compelling book tells the memorable stories of the men and women who have risked their lives by entering the white wastelands of the Arctic and the Antarctic, from the

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: The Arctic Pre-1900; Chapter Two: The Antarctic Pre-1900; Chapter Three: First to the North Pole: Arguments and Debates; Chapter Four: The Race for the South Pole; Chapter Five: The Arctic 1910-1960; Chapter Six: The Antarctic 1912-1960; Chapter Seven: The Poles in the Last Fifty Years; Chapter Eight: The Polar in the Imagination; Polar Explorers: A Brief Biographical Dictionary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 31, 2014).

ISBN:

9781843440918

1843440911

9781843440932

1843440938