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Informationen zum Autor Stephen R. Bown is the author ofScurvy: How a Surgeon! a Mariner and A Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail! selected as one of the Globe and Mail's Top 100 books of 2004! and A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite! Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World! selected for the Scientific American Book Club! the History Book Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club. He lives with his wife and two young children near Banff in the Canadian Rockies. www.stephenrbown.net Klappentext The first full biography in many years of the greatest polar explorer of all time: the conqueror of both the South and North poles as well as the Northwest and the Northeast passages. Zusammenfassung The first full-scale biography of the greatest of all polar explorers and a conqueror of the Northwest Passage as well Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Prologue: The Last of the Vikings - 5 PART ONE: West Chapter One: The Boy from the Mountain Kingdom - 21 Chapter Two: Polar Apprentice - 43 Chapter Three: An Extraordinary Plan - 64 Chapter Four: Where Franklin Died - 84 Chapter Five: An Education at Gjoa Haven -- 102 PART TWO: South Chapter Six: "I Resolved Upon a Coup" - 127 Chapter Seven: The Napoleon of the Poles - 152 Chapter Eight: Dogs and Skis - 176 Chapter Nine: A Featureless Expanse of Snow - 193 PART THREE: East Chapter Ten: A Hero Returns - 217 Chapter Eleven: A New Battlefield - 235 Chapter Twelve: The Frozen Reaches of Tartary - 254 PART FOUR: North Chapter Thirteen: Grounded Dreams - 274 Chapter Fourteen: The Arctic Phoenix - 299 Chapter Fifteen: The Dirigible and the Fascist -- 319 Chapter Sixteen: A Massed Attack on the Polar Regions - 339 PART FIVE: Lost Chapter Seventeen: No More Poles to Conquer - 361 Epilogue: The End of the Heroic Age - 382
