Beyond the Edge: Historic Stories of Polar Navigation
- ISBN-10
- 1735085707
- ISBN-13
- 9781735085708
- Series
- Beyond the Edge
- Category
- Antarctica
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Gerald Winford Johnson
Description
Nansen, Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton, Schurke, Steger...famous names in polar exploration! Their successes and failures are well documented; less well known, however, are the fascinating stories of how they literally found their way through this cold and desolate part of the world. Told in the words of the participants themselves, the reader is given a first-hand account of both the technical and the human aspects of cold weather.The author, himself an arctic veteran and navigator, has undertaken to bring to life the often untold stories of this aspect of the polar experience, giving the reader a greater appreciation of the role that the sun and stars--and the people who knew how to use them--played over nearly 100 years of polar exploration.
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