Polar Exploration, in Association with the Royal Geographical Society
by Beau Riffenburgh (9780233002637)

Take a voyage of discovery into the 'Heroic Age' of polar exploration. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth, explorers from around the world navigated the Northwest Passage and the Northeast Passage, attained the North and South Poles, crossed the Arctic Basin and first flew airships and airplanes in the Arctic and Antarctic, conquering one of nature's last, closely guarded bastions. Through facsimile items, "Polar Exploration" narrates the famous stories of Earnest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson and Captain Oates and those less well-known, such as poisonings, mysterious disappearances, false claims, near misses controversies, accusations of cannibalism and the first Antarctic wintering (which drove men to madness). Facsimile items will provisionally include: maps and log books; and, personal diaries, letters and notes.

USD $48.73

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