Adventure at the bottom of the world ; Adventure at the top of the world
By: by Shelley Gill ; photos by Gordon Wiltsie, [J.T. Lindholm, Jennifer Johnston].
Contributors: Wiltsie, Gordon, ill.; Lindholm, J. T., ill.; Johnston, Jennifer, ill.; Gill, Shelley.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Paws IV Pub.; Sasquatch Books; Sasquatch Books/Paws IV Children's Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Homer, Alaska
Language: eng
Subjects: Vaughan, Norman D. -- Juvenile literature; Johnston, Merrick -- Juvenile literature; Vaughan, Norman D; Johnston, Merrick; Mountaineering -- Antarctica -- Juvenile literature; Mountaineering -- Alaska -- Juvenile literature; Mountaineers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Mountaineers; Adventure and adventurers; Queen Maud Mountains -- Juvenile literature; McKinley, Mount (Alaska) -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: Eighty-eight-year-old explorer Norman Vaughan revisits the Queen Maude Mountains in Antarctica to climb the mountain named for him 65 years earlier by Admiral Richard E. Byrd; twelve-year-old adventurer Merrick Johnston becomes the youngest person ever to scale Denali, North America's highest peak.
Notes: Works are inverted and issued back-to-back.