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Scott & Amundsen
de Roland Huntford
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- ISBN 10
- 0399119604
- ISBN 13
- 9780399119606
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G.P.Putnam, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 663pp. From the library of Brenda Ueland, Minnesota writer with her notes on last page of book. Gift inscription on front free endpaper to Brenda at Christmas, 1980.
Some discoloration to endpaper and half title page. In a price clipped dust jacket.
Some discoloration to endpaper and half title page. In a price clipped dust jacket.
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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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 61310
- Título
- Scott & Amundsen
- Autor
- Roland Huntford
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399119604
- ISBN 13
- 9780399119606
- Editorial
- G.P.Putnam
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Palabras clave
- Brenda Ueland
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