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• Title:The greatest polar exploration stories ever told / edited and with an introduction by Tom McCarthy.
  
• ISBN:9781493071005
  1493071009
  9781493071012
  
• Publication:Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2023]
  
• Physical Description:ix, 257 pages ; 23 cm
  

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  • Call Number: G580 .G74 2023 (LC)
    
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• Summary:"The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting, and stunning collection of stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traversed frozen hells to be the first to reach the North or South Pole. It is a collection that will both inspire and inform as well as answer questions about the limits of human endurance"--
  
• Other formats:Online version: Greatest polar exploration stories ever told Lanham, MD : Lyons Press, [2023]
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references.
  
• Contents:Part I: The call of the North -- The quest for North Pole / John Buchan -- Across barren grounds, 1821 / Sir John Franklin -- In search of John Franklin / Elisha Kent Kane -- The last voyage of the Polaris, 1871 / Reverend Z. A. Mudge -- Reaching the Pole / Robert E. Peary -- I was first / Frederick A. Cook -- Part II: The Call of the South -- The Quest for the South Pole / M.B Synge -- The worst journey in the world / Apsley Cherry-Garrard -- We succeed / Roald Amundsen -- Loss of the endurance / Sir Ernest Shackleton.
  
• Subjects:Explorers--Polar Regions--History.
  Discoveries in geography.
  Explorers.
  Polar regions--Discovery and exploration.
  Polar regions.
  
• Also listed under:McCarthy, Tom, 1952- editor.