Polar explorations
By: Don Nardo
Series: World history
Publisher: Lucent Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781420503609
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Explorers; Biography; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and (p. 95-97) index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The attraction of the poles; title: The earliest Arctic voyagers; title: Quests for the northern passages; title: Search for the southern continent; title: The contest for the North Pole; title: Antarctica in the heroic age; title: The age of mechanized exploration; title: Epilogue: To conquer the unknown : modern polar research; title: Timeline.