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Scott & Amundsen
de Huntford, Roland
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0340195657
- ISBN 13
- 9780340195659
- Librería
-
Arcata, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Photos. A lovely copy in like jacket under fresh mylar. Former owner's name lightly in pencil on FFEP. So weighty there is a slight cock to spine.
Sinopsis
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who dies along with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain's beloved failure, while Amundsen, who not only beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, was largely forgotten. This account of their race is a gripping, highly readable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out. THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- ProPen
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 008946
- Título
- Scott & Amundsen
- Autor
- Huntford, Roland
- Ilustrador
- Photos
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0340195657
- ISBN 13
- 9780340195659
- Editorial
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
