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100 1 Cox, Lynne.
245 10 South with the sun :|bRoald Amundsen, his polar
explorations, and the quest for discovery|h[Hoopla
electronic resource] /|cLynne Cox.
250 Unabridged.
264 1 [United States] :|bHighBridge,|c2011.
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511 1 Read by Christine Williams.
520 A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen's
career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was
born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant sea
captains and rich ship owners); twenty-five years later he
was the first man to reach both the North and South Poles.
Lynne Cox, adventurer and swimmer, author of Swimming to
Antarctica (grippingSports Illustrated) and Grayson
(wondrous, and unforgettableCarl Hiaasen), gives us in
South with the Sun a full-scale account of the explorer's
life and expeditions. We see Amundsen, in 1903-06, the
first to travel the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans, in his small ship Gjøa, a seventy-foot
refitted former herring boat powered by sails and a
thirteen-horsepower engine, making his way through the
entire length of the treacherous ice bound route, between
the northern Canadian mainland and Canada's Arctic islands,
from Greenland across Baffin Bay, between the Canadian
islands, across the top of Alaska into the Bering Strait.
The dangerous journey took three years to complete, as
Amundsen, his crew, and six sled dogs waited while the
frozen sea around them thawed sufficiently to allow for
navigation. We see him journey toward the North Pole in
Fridtjof Nansen's famous Fram, until word reached his
expedition party of Robert Peary's successful arrival at
the North Pole. Amundsen then set out on a secret
expedition to the Antarctic, and we follow him through his
heroic capture of the South Pole. Cox makes clear why
Amundsen succeeded in his quests where other adventurer-
explorers failed, and how his methodical preparation and
willingness to take calculated risks revealed both the
spirit of the man and the way to complete one triumphant
journey after another. Cox also describes reading about
Amundsen as a young girl and how his exploits inspired her
to follow her dreams. We see how she unwittingly set out
in Amundsen's path, swimming in open waters off Antarctica,
then Greenland (always without a wetsuit), first as a
challenge to her own abilities and then later as a way to
understand Amundsen's life and the lessons learned from
his vision, imagination, and daring. South with the
Suninspiring, wondrous, and trueis a bold adventure story
of bold ambitious dreams.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
600 10 Amundsen, Roald,|d1872-1928.
600 10 Amundsen, Roald,|d1872-1928|xTravel|zAntarctica.
650 0 Explorers|zNorway|vBiography.
651 0 South Pole|xDiscovery and exploration|xNorwegian.
651 0 Antarctica|xDiscovery and exploration|xNorwegian.
700 1 Williams, Christine|c(Narrator)|4nrt
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