TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bown,Stephen R.
TI  - The last Viking: the life of Roald Amundsen 
SN  - 0306820676 (hardcover : alk. paper)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Da Capo Press
KW  - Amundsen, Roald,
KW  - Explorers
KW  - Norway
KW  - Biography
KW  - Antarctica
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Norweigian
KW  - Arctic regions
KW  - North Pole
KW  - Northwest Passage
N1  - 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
ER  -