To the Edges of the Earth (ePub)
THE ARCTIC: ROBERT PEARY : THE NORTH POLE
THE HIMALAYAS: THE DUKE OF THE ABRUZZI : K2
From the Pulitzer Prizewinning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of...
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ANTARCTICA: ERNEST SHACKLETON : THE SOUTH POLE
THE ARCTIC: ROBERT PEARY : THE NORTH POLE
THE HIMALAYAS: THE DUKE OF THE ABRUZZI : K2
From the Pulitzer Prizewinning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world
As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of explorationset at the earth's frozen extremeslay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, the Pole of Altitude, located in the unexplored heights of the Himalayas. Before the calendar turned, three expeditions had faced death, mutiny, and the harshest conditions on the planet to raise flags at the farthest edges of the earth.
In the course of one extraordinary year, Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson were hailed worldwide as the discoverers of the North Pole; Britain's Ernest Shackleton had set a new geographic farthest-south record, while his expedition mate Australian Douglas Mawson had reached the south magnetic pole; and at the roof of the world, Italy's Duke of the Abruzzi had attained an altitude record that would stand for a generation, the result of the first major mountaineering expedition to the Himalayas' eastern Karakoram, where the daring aristocrat attempted K2 and established the standard route up the most notorious mountain on the planet.
Drawing on extensive archival and on-the-ground research, Edward J. Larson weaves these narratives into one thrilling adventure-story. Larson, author of the acclaimed polar history An Empire of Ice, draws on his own voyages to the Himalayas; the Arctic; and the ice sheets of the Antarctic, where he himself reached the South Pole and lived in Shackleton's Cape Royds hut as a fellow in the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.
These three legendary expeditionsoverlapping in time, danger, and stakeswere glorified on their return, their leaders celebrated as the preeminent heroes of their day. Stripping away the myth, Larson, a master historian, illuminates one of the great overlooked tales of exploration, revealing the astonishing human achievement at the heart of these journeys.
- Autor: Edward J. Larson
- 2018, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Harper Collins
- ISBN-10: 006256451X
- ISBN-13: 9780062564511
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.03.2018
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