The last Viking : the life of Roald Amundsen /
Bown, Stephen R.
The last Viking : the life of Roald Amundsen / Stephen R. Bown. - Cambridge : Da Capo Press, c2012. - xxii, 357 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. West -- The boy from the Mountain Kingdom -- Polar apprentice -- An extraordinary plan -- Where Franklin died -- An education at Gjøahavn -- 2. South -- "I resolved upon a coup" -- The Napoleon of the Poles -- Dogs and skis -- A featureless expanse of snow -- 3. East -- A hero returns -- A new battlefield -- The frozen reaches of Tartary -- 4. North -- Grounded dreams -- The Arctic Phoenix -- The dirigible and the fascist -- A massed attack on the polar regions -- 5. Lost -- No more Poles to conquer -- Epilogue: the end of the Heroic Age.
0306820676 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0306821621 (e-book) 9780306820670 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780306821622 (e-book)
2012012126
Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928.
Explorers--Norway--Biography.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Norweigian.
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Norweigian.
North Pole--Discovery and exploration--Norweigian.
Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--Norweigian.
The last Viking : the life of Roald Amundsen / Stephen R. Bown. - Cambridge : Da Capo Press, c2012. - xxii, 357 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. West -- The boy from the Mountain Kingdom -- Polar apprentice -- An extraordinary plan -- Where Franklin died -- An education at Gjøahavn -- 2. South -- "I resolved upon a coup" -- The Napoleon of the Poles -- Dogs and skis -- A featureless expanse of snow -- 3. East -- A hero returns -- A new battlefield -- The frozen reaches of Tartary -- 4. North -- Grounded dreams -- The Arctic Phoenix -- The dirigible and the fascist -- A massed attack on the polar regions -- 5. Lost -- No more Poles to conquer -- Epilogue: the end of the Heroic Age.
0306820676 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0306821621 (e-book) 9780306820670 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780306821622 (e-book)
2012012126
Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928.
Explorers--Norway--Biography.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Norweigian.
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Norweigian.
North Pole--Discovery and exploration--Norweigian.
Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--Norweigian.