The mammoth book of polar journeys
Subtitle: 42 eye-witness accounts of adventure and tragedy in the Arctic and Antarctica
By: edited by Jon E. Lewis.
Contributors: Lewis, Jon E., 1961-
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers; Distributed by Publishers Group West; Running Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780786719624
Subjects: Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Polar journeys
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p [481]-483).
Table of contents: title: Timeline; title: Part one : the North Pole. Introduction : The North Pole; title: The march to Fort Enterprise / Sir John Franklin (1821); title: Farthest North / William Edward Parry (1827); title: Escape from the ice / George E. Tyson (1872-3); title: The last days / George W. De Long (1881); title: Nansen of the North / Fridtjof Nansen & Hjalmar Johansen (1893-6); title: Where the Eagle dared / Salomon Andrée (1897); title: Stefansson in 'The friendly Arctic' / Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1908-17); title: Cook attains the Pole ... / Frederick A. Cook (1908); title: Ninety degrees North / Robert E. Peary (1909); title: Sledge-tracks / Ejnar Mikkelsen (1909); title: Thin ice / W. Elmer Ekblaw (1913-17); title: Rescue from Wrangel Island / William Laird McKinley (1914); title: "At last! at last! people" : Rasmussen encounters Eskimo / Knud Rasmussen (1921-4); title: Wings over the Pole / Richard E. Byrd (1926); title: Too close to the ice / Umberto Nobile (1928); title: White devils / David Haig-Thomas (1938); title: Hunting in the land of the long day / Doug Wilkinson (1953); title: Top of the world / Wally Herbert (1969); title: Satan's cauldron / Ranulph Fiennes (1982); title: Cold reality / David Hempleman-Adams (1983); title: Blood on the dream / Barry Lopez (1986); title: Musher / Alistair Scott (1988); title: Perfect storm / Bear Grylls (2003); title: Part two : The South Pole. Introduction : the South Pole; title: Farthest South / Ernest Shackleton (1908-9); title: The ascent of Mount Erebus / T. W. Edgeworth David (1908); title: The winter journey / Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1911); title: Pole position / Roald Amundsen (1911); title: Forestalled / Robert F. Scott (1912); title: Last man walking / Douglas Mawson (1912); title: The loss of the Endurance / Ernest Shackleton (1915); title: The boat journey / F. A. Worsley (1916); title: Crossing South Georgia / Ernest Shackleton (1916); title: Alone / Richard E. Byrd (1933-4); title: The first men in the white Eden / John Rymill (1934); title: Going all the way / Vivian Fuchs (1956-8); title: Cape Adare / David Lewis (1977-8); title: The killer under the water / Gareth Wood (1985); title: Melting point / David Helvarg (1999); title: Mind over matter / Catharine Hartley (2001); title: Swimming to Antarctica / Lynne Cox (2002); title: Appendix I : The last letters of Robert Falcon Scott RN; title: Appendix II : The early life of Robert Falcon Scott / by James M. Barrie; title: Appendix III : The Antarctic Treaty; title: Bibliography; title: Glossary; title: The Polar Who's Who; title: Sources & Acknowledgments.