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The story of polar conquest : the complete history of arctic and antarctic exploration, including the discovery of the South Pole by Amundsen and Scott : the tragic fate of the Scott Expedition and, the discovery of the North Pole by Admiral Peary / edited by Logan Marshall.
LIBRA Rare G590 .M3 1913
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Logan, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912.
- Scott, Robert Falcon.
- Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928.
- Amundsen, Roald.
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920.
- Peary, Robert E.
- Explorers--Antarctica.
- Explorers.
- Polar regions--Discovery and exploration.
- Polar regions.
- Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.
- Arctic regions.
- Antarctica--Discovery and exploration.
- Antarctica.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Arctic Regions.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 352 [i.e. 320] pages, 29 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Polar conquest
- Tragic fate of the Scott expedition
- Discovery of the North Pole by Admiral Peary
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [L.T. Meyers], 1913.
- Contents:
- I. The Scott Expedition and its tragic fate
- II. Robert F. Scott, Antarctic martyr
- III. First at the South Pole: The thrilling story of the Amundsen Expedition
- IV. Roald Amundsen, intrepid discoverer of the South Pole
- V. Shackleton on the threshold of the South Pole
- VI. Previous attempts to penetrate the Antarctic region
- VII. The discovery of the North Pole: The story of Peary's great exploit
- VIII. Side-lights on the Peary expedition
- IX. Robert E. Peary, the indomitable polar explorer
- X. The search for the Northwest Passage
- XI. The Ross and Parry Polar voyages
- XII. The first Franklin expedition
- XIII. The terrible fate of the Sir John Franklin Expedition
- XIV. Dr. Kane's famous Arctic voyage
- XV. Hayes, Hall and other hardy adventurers
- XVI. Nordenskiold and the Northeast Passage
- XVII. The horrors of the "Jeannette" expedition
- XVIII. Melville finds the remains of the DeLong party
- XIX. Greely's Arctic winter of starvation
- XX. Nansen's memorable voyage in the "Fram"
- XXI. Andree's fatal flight northward in a balloon
- XXII. Abruzzi, the royal Italian explorer
- XXIII. Interesting scientific work in the polar regions.
- Notes:
- No imprint on title page. "Copyright 1913, by L.T. Myers."--Title page verso.
- Includes 22 stories of various explorers.
- "The 32 pages of illustrations contained in this book are not included in the paging. Adding these 32 pages to the 320 pages of text makes a total of 352 pages"--Page 352.
- Includes bibliographical references to New Zealand.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare copy G590 .M3 1913 gift of David and Deirdre Stam, 2024. Has inscription: "Presented to George Lower from his Mother. Keep it."
- OCLC:
- 920474310
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