•‘One of the 100 greatest adventure books of all time’ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. •‘This great Norwegian explorer's achievements are unsurpassed: He was the first to sail the Northwest Passage, and he beat Scott to the South Pole’ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. •Includes bonus material: Amundsen’s NEW YORK TIMES article on the days leading to him reaching the South Pole on 14 December 1911. •Includes all the original edition’s illustrations and additional photographs from Amundsen’s expeditions. The warts and all memoir of visionary Norwegian Polar explorer Roald Amundsen. Published just a year before his mysterious disappearance at the North Pole, Roald Amundsen’s MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER is a classic of polar exploration literature. Amundsen’s intimate memoir takes us through the highs and lows of his stella career one that was far more successful than his perhaps better known rivals, Ernest Shackleton and Robert F. Scott. He was the first to traverse Canada’s Northwest passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in 1906, the first to reach the South Pole in 1911 (narrowly beating Scott) and to fly over the North Pole in 1926. The secret of his success? Amundsen’s expeditions benefited from his careful preparations, good equipment, appropriate clothing and a simple primary task. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Roald Amundsen was born in 1872 in Borge, Norway into a family of shipowners and captains. Inspired by Fridtjof Nansen’s crossing of Greenland in 1888 and John Franklin’s lost expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage he embarked on a life-long quest to explore the unconquered wilderness. The rest, as they say, is history. His other books include The North-East Passage, The North-West Passage: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Gjoa 1903-1907, The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912, and with Lincoln Elsworth Our Polar Flight: The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight (1925). Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic, he was never heard of again. PRAISE FOR MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER: ‘This great Norwegian explorer's achievements are unsurpassed: He was the first to sail the Northwest Passage, and he beat Scott to the South Pole’ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC; ‘The saga of a modern Viking; Roald Amundsen tells the story of his adventurous life’ THE NEW YORK TIMES; ‘A fascinating autobiography... his career from the cradle over many graves’ ADVOCATE; ‘An explorer beyond parallel’ THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; ‘One of the greatest explorers of all time’ STEPHEN R. BOWN, author of THE LAST VIKING: THE LIFE OF ROALD AMUNDSEN; ‘A thrilling account of all the achievements of the Norwegian explorer… a first-hand account of one of history’s most fearless explorers’ HISTORY REVEALED.
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✔ Autore(s): Roald Amundsen
✔ Titolo: My Life As An Explorer: A Memoir
✔ Valutazione : 4.1 su 5 stelle (90 voti)
✔ ISBN-10: 1081811552
✔ ISBN-13: 9781081811556
✔ Lingua: Italiano
✔ Formato ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML e MOBI
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