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Author:

Bown, Stephen R.

Title:

The last Viking : the life of Roald Amundsen / Stephen R. Bown.

Publisher:

Da Capo Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xxii, 357 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Amundsen, Roald,--1872-1928.
Explorers--Norway--Biography.
Northwest Passage--Norweigian.--Norweigian.
Antarctica--Norweigian.--Norweigian.
North Pole--Norweigian.--Norweigian.
Arctic regions--Norweigian.--Norweigian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. West -- The boy from the Mountain Kingdom -- Polar apprentice -- An extraordinary plan -- Where Franklin died -- An education at Gjøahavn -- 2. South -- "I resolved upon a coup" -- The Napoleon of the Poles -- Dogs and skis -- A featureless expanse of snow -- 3. East -- A hero returns -- A new battlefield -- The frozen reaches of Tartary -- 4. North -- Grounded dreams -- The Arctic Phoenix -- The dirigible and the fascist -- A massed attack on the polar regions -- 5. Lost -- No more Poles to conquer -- Epilogue: the end of the Heroic Age.

ISBN:

0306821621 (e-book)
9780306821622 (e-book)
0306820676 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780306820670 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)784125022

LCCN:

2012012126

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

NDPD953 -- Forest City Public Library (Forest City)

HNPC845 -- Hawarden Public Library (Hawarden)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)