Polar Dream
Subtitle: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole
Contributors: Sir Edmund Hillary (Foreword)
Edition: Second Edition edition
Publisher: NewSage Press
Published: September 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780939165452
Subjects: Polar Regions; Travel - General; Nature/Ecology; Essays & Travelogues; Women explorers; Nature; Travel; Thayer, Helen; North Pole; Journeys; Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering; Description and travel; Washington (State); Mountains; Arctic regions
First sentence: FROM THE SUMMIT OF PEAK COMMUNISM, the highest in Tajikistan at an altitude of 24,590 feet, a white sea of jagged lower peaks surrounded me.