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Polar exploration : journeys to the Arctic and the Antarctic / written by Martyn Bramwell ; illustrated by Marje Crosby-Fairall and Ann Winterbotham.
LIBRA - Rare G584 .B7 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bramwell, Martyn, author.
- Series:
- DK discoveries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Explorers--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Explorers.
- Explorers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Polar regions--Discovery and exploration--Juvenile literature.
- Polar regions.
- Polar regions--Discovery and exploration.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Great Britain.
- United States.
- Genre:
- collective biographies.
- Literature.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : DK Publishing, 1998.
- Summary:
- Describes some of the many explorations made to both the North and South Poles.
- Contents:
- First encounters
- Into the Arctic Ocean
- Southbound scientists and sealers
- South through the Ross Sea
- Lost expedition
- Voyage of the Fram
- Three men in a balloon
- Quest for the Poles
- Across the top of the world
- Race to the South Pole
- Loneliest march
- Great escape
- Flying over the Poles
- Scientific age
- Continent for science
- Over, under, and through the ice
- Doing it the hard way
- Working in Antarctica
- All about the Poles
- Who went where and when?
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare copy G584 .B7 1998 gift of David and Deirdre Stam, 2024.
- ISBN:
- 0789434210
- 9780789434210
- OCLC:
- 39042748
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