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xx, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-316) and index. |
| Summary |
In 1909, three daring expeditions pushed to the edges of the globe, bringing within reach, for the first time, a complete accounting of all the earth’s surface. In January, Douglas Mawson, as part of Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica, became the first man to reach the South Magnetic Pole. Soon after, Shackleton himself set a new farthest south record in pursuit of the Geographic South Pole. In April, American Robert Peary, with Matthew Henson, claimed to be the first to reach the North Pole. And in the Himalayas—the so-called "Third Pole," the pole of altitude— a team led by legendary mountaineer and dashing Italian Prince Luigi Amedeo, the Duke of Abruzzi, reached 24,600 feet, setting a world altitude record that would stand for a generation. |
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Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration.
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Mountaineering expeditions -- Pakistan -- K2 (Mountain)
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K2 (Pakistan : Mountain) -- Description and travel.
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British Antarctic Expedition (1907-1909)
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Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920.
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Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955.
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Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.
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Savoia, Luigi Amedeo di, duca degli Abruzzi, 1873-1933.
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| ISBN |
9780062564474 |
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