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Polar Exploration
Polar exploration refers to the process of exploration of the polar regions of Earth – the Arctic region and Antarctica – particularly with the goal of reaching the North Pole and South Pole, respectively. Historically, this was accomplished by explorers making often arduous travels on foot or by sled in these regions. Polar exploration historically also included the search for a northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans in the Arctic, as well as the Northeast Passage.
A good amount of books representing accounts and personal narratives of such explorations have been accumul ...more
A good amount of books representing accounts and personal narratives of such explorations have been accumul ...more
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Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 30° below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed.
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― Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
― Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
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By 1854, when the search was called off, almost every corner of the Canadian archipelago below the 77th parallel had been traversed, drawn, and recorded on large maps carefully tipped into the papers. So fragile now they hardly bear touching, they are still in their spare precision beautiful and moving, the tangible result of the toes and fingers lost to frostbite, the starvation and profound exhaustion and sometimes the death of me dragging heavy sledges over rough ice or through deep snow, ski
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― The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
― The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
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