Richard Sale

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Richard Sale


Born
Somerset, The United Kingdom
Genre
Arctic, Travel


Richard Sale (1946-) is a physicist, with a PhD in astrophysics. After working as a glaciologist in Switzerland and then in the UK power industry he gave up fulltime physics for his first loves – birds and the Arctic. He has written and taken photographs for many books, including To the Ends of the Earth: The History of Polar Exploration and various travel guides.

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“An ugly blue- steeled Mauser leaped into his hand as his finger curled hungrily around its trigger.”
― Richard Sale, House of Terror - 6 Tales of Weird Mystery [Illustrated]
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