Four to the Pole!: The American Women's Expedition to Antarctica, 1992-1993

by Nancy Loewen, Ann Bancroft

Chronicles the sixty-seven day, 660 mile journey of Ann Bancroft, Sue Giller, Anne Dal Vera, and Sunniva Sorby, who were the first women to reach the South Pole on foot.

Genres: Biography, Adventure

128 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 2001

About the author

Nancy Loewen grew up on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, surrounded by library books and cats. She's published more than 140 books for children. FOUR TO THE POLE (co-authored with polar explorer Ann Bancroft) and THE LAST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN were Minnesota Book Award finalists. Her WRITER'S TOOLBOX series received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers.

Nancy lives in Saint Paul and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. She has two adult children and a cat who sometimes bites her knees under the table as she writes.

Reviews

[Lily · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a very good book. I liked this book because it was about four woman making history for being the firs women ever to reach the South Pole. My favorite part of this book was that even though it was hard for the woman, they never gave up. My least favorite part of the book was that they didn't go on after they reached the South Pole. Over all I thought this was a very good book. I recommend it to people who like Antarctica, cold places or maybe just an adventure.

[Marcia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Subjects: The American Women’s Expedition to Antarctica, 1992-1993, Antarctica, adventurers, team work, personal motivation, perseverance, goal setting, leadership, and personal challenges. Stories such as Four to the Pole are inspirational and give hope to teens that they too can pursue their dreams. Four to the Pole is an excellent addition to a school curriculum as it includes: history and facts about the Antarctic, maps, color illustrations, detail information about each of the four women, journal entries, footnotes with definitions, transcriptions from tapes, and bibliographical resources (books, visual materials, and websites).

[Correen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was interested in this book as it provides personal journal entries from the four American women who skied to the South Pole. Their accounts tell of the difficulty of their expedition, the fund raising before leaving and after returning, the horrendous cold, physical endurance and their courage.