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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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At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed, they discovered, since the days of Amundsen and Nansen, and the leather remained tough and inedible.)
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― Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
― Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
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