Alone
Subtitle: The Classic Polar Adventure
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: August 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781559634632
Subjects: Biography: general; Geographical discovery & exploration; General; Biography/Autobiography; Polar Regions; Discovery And Exploration (General); Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Earth Sciences - Geography; Antarctica; Byrd Antarctic Expedition; Adventurers & Explorers; Historical - U.S.; Biography & Autobiography / General; History / Polar Regions; Solitude; 1933-1935); Science; (2nd :; 1888-1957; Byrd, Richard Evelyn,
First sentence: BOLLING ADVANCE WEATHER BASE, WHICH I MANNED ALONE during the Antarctic winter night of 1934, was planted in the dark immensity of the Ross Ice Barrier, on a line between Little America and the South Pole.