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Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole / Rachael Morlock.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Real-life scientific adventuresPublisher: New York : PowerKids Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 32 pages : color maps, portraits (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781508168584
  • 150816858X
  • 9781508168607
  • 1508168601
  • 9781508168614
  • 150816861X
Subject(s):
Contents:
Antarctica -- Amundsen the explorer -- Race to the pole -- Planning and preparing -- The Ross ice shelf -- Winter at Framheim -- To the pole! -- Crossing the mountains -- At the South Pole -- The race continues -- A heroic journey -- Scott's fate -- Amundsen's adventures.
Summary: "Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer, the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911, and a hero of the age of Antarctic exploration. Before his death in 1928, Amundsen was the first man to travel the Northwest Passage by ship, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. This absorbing text communicates the details of Amundsen's dangerous expedition and the weight of his contributions to polar exploration."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 919.8904 M865 Available 33111009305075
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer, the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911, and a hero of the age of Antarctic exploration. Before his death in 1928, Amundsen was the first man to travel the Northwest Passage by ship, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. This absorbing book communicates the details of Amundsen's dangerous expedition and the weight of his contributions to polar exploration.

"Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer, the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911, and a hero of the age of Antarctic exploration. Before his death in 1928, Amundsen was the first man to travel the Northwest Passage by ship, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. This absorbing text communicates the details of Amundsen's dangerous expedition and the weight of his contributions to polar exploration."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

Antarctica -- Amundsen the explorer -- Race to the pole -- Planning and preparing -- The Ross ice shelf -- Winter at Framheim -- To the pole! -- Crossing the mountains -- At the South Pole -- The race continues -- A heroic journey -- Scott's fate -- Amundsen's adventures.

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