Description: The Fight to Conquer the Ends of the Earth The World's Great Adventure1000 Years of Polar ExplorationIncludingThe Heroic Achievements ofAdmiral Richard E. Byrd By Francis Trevelyan Miller, LL.D., LITT.D.Historian; (author of) International Geographical History of the Worldwith Admiral Robert E. Peary ; American Hero Tales, Etc. Forewords by General A. W. Greely, U. S. Army, Retired Commander of the "Lady Franklin Bay" North Polar Expedition andDr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History Illustrated(with) Photographs, Historic Prints, Etc. Published By The John C. WinstonCompanyChicago - Philadelphia - Toronto1930 Hardcover.Color pictorial Pastedown over blue cloth.Map endpapers.( Byrd Antarctic Expedition Aircraft )6.25" x 9"384 pages. Good Condition.Some wear at the lower edge of the front cover and the spine.Light staining at the upper spine and upper rear cover.The binding is otherwise in nice condition.The hinges are tight.The pages are in very good condition. ------- Polar Exploration ; account of the expeditions to reach both the Arctic and Antarctic poles.Including:Admiral Byrd, Little America , Byrd's airplane flight over the South Pole , the Rival Expeditions from several nations , the History of Arctic conquest ( from ancient times to the 1800s , including ancient Greek travelers , the Irish Monks , the Vikings , Columbus , Eskimos taken as slaves , attempts to reach the North Pole in the 1500s , an English knight murdered by North American natives , Europeans in the Arctic in the 1600s and 1700s , the Whaling Fleet in the far north , the Crocker Mountain fiasco of 1818 , battle with Icebergs in 1818, British expedition in 1824 , Ross discovery of the Magnetic Pole in 1829, Ships lost in the Ice , John Franklin , Kanes exploring party , the Search for Franklin , corpses and cannibalism , the Northwest Passage , Hall the Blacksmith , the Most Remarkable Rescue in Arctic History , Germany Sweden Austria and Italy , Frozen in the Ice , Starvation , a man Shot for Stealing Food , Robert E. Peary , the first white child born in the Arctic , Discovery of the North Pole , history of the struggle to reach Antarctica , European explorers 1500s , Magellan , Captain James Cook , Connecticut Sealing Fleet , Discovery of Palmer Island , Russian Expedition , Weddell Sea , the Whaling Fleet in far Southern waters , Wrecked in the Ice , Cannibals and vicious Natives in Southern Waters , Wilkes , Voyage of the Challenger , Captain Robert F. Scott , Shackleton - hero of the Empire , Amundsen and the Fram , Suffering and Misfortune - the death of the Scott party , Australian Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson , slaughter of Penguins on Macquarie Island , eating the dogs , death by exhaustion , abandoned ship , the death of Shackleton , Desolation , the history of Admiral Byrd , the New Age of Science in the Arctic , Airplane flights and Radio communication , Arctic disasters 1928-1929, the Antarctic Explorers in 1930 , The Great Andree Mystery At the rear is a Historical Chronology of ( Polar ) Explorations[ from 325 B.C. to A.D. 1929 ] ----- List of Illustrations :The "Floyd Bennett' Wings Its Flight over Antarctica Facsimile Autographs of Three Great Explorers Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Roald AmundsenRear Admiral Richard E. Byrd Byrd's Three Children with Their Famous DaddyByrd's Mother and Her Famous Son" City of New Yor " on her Thirteen thousand-mile Voyage Inside the Ice Pack at the Bottom of the WorldBernt Balchen, Chief Pilot of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition Harold I. June , Chief Radio Operator of Byrd's ExpeditionThe Famous Geologist of the Byrd Expedition, Dr. Lawrence A. GouldByrd consults with the Chiefs of His StaffAviator Dean C. Smith Chief Engineer Thomas Mulroy Byrd's Route to the South Pole through Passes in a 12,000 foot Mountain RangeHomes in Little America Huge SnowdriftsLiving in TentsThe Plane Which Crossed the Pole , The "Floyd Bennett"The Flagship of Byrd's Air FleetCaptain Ashley McKinley, Official Aerial Photographer and SurveyorAdmiral Byrd's Chief Surveyor, John S. O'Brien Russell Owen Meteorologist Haynes Meteorologist HarrisonDr. Haldor BarnesDr. Francis D. Coleman Lieutenant Malcolm HansonByrd's Link with America — Official Radio Chief F. E. Meinholtz Boy Scout of ExpeditionByrd's Party Escapes Sinking into a Bottomless CavernThe Home of the BlizzardScientists on the Antarctic TrailMonstrous Masses of IceByrd's Ships in the South Polar SeasHusky Dogs from the Far North That Went to Little America Byrd's Mascot, " Igoe "The Mascot Pals Floyd Bennett , in Memory of Whom Byrd's Plan Was NamedVikings - Eric the Red Discovered GreenlandColumbus on the Discovery of AmericaCabot on His Discovery of Canada Magellan's Ships Were First to Sail around the WorldOld Print of Magellan Vasco da GamaHenry Hudson on Discovery of Hudson BayEric the Red , Sir Martin Frobisher , Henry Hudson , Willem Barentz , Sir Thomas Button, and Thomas JamesFabian Bellingshausen , James Cook , Jules D'Urville,Benjamin Morrell , James Weddell , James Ross, and Lieut. Charles WilkesHenry Grinnell , Sir John Franklin , Julius Payer, Elisha Kane,Charles Hall, G. W. De Long , and George NaresGeneral A. W. Greely , James B. Lockwood , Adrian Gerlache , Fridtjof Nansen , Otto Nordenskjold , Carstens Borchgrevink , and Erick von Drygalski Desolate Graves tell the Tragic Tale of the Arctic Storm-tortured and Ice-beset Kill or Be Killed?Kane's Life Was Saved by His Friendship with the EskimosThis Ferocious Bear Killed Three of Kane's Best DogsNo Men Ever Lived through Greater HorrorsWithin Seven Degrees of the North PoleAbandoning Their Ships in the Arctic SeaArctic Funeral of Captain Hall — He Died Insane Ravenous with HungerWhen Mutiny was Threatened by the MenHall Braved Arctic Perils AloneAwah-tah — His Back Marked with Scars Forced to Abandon Their Ship, the " Polaris " After Weeks of Hopeless StruggleJames Gordon Bennett Financed De Long's ExpeditionThe " Jeannette " Sinking in the Ice Melville Searching Party Find Bodie of De Long and Crew This Boat and All Her Men were Lost at SeaIce and Mud Forced De Long to Wade AshorePolar Bears Attack the Whalers Boats Heroic Rescue of Greely at the Point of DeathGreely Sets the World Record for Farthest NorthHands and Feet Frozen Too Weak to Rise from the IceSixteen Men Weakened by Hunger Can Hardly Move This BoatJens Died by Drowning , while Trying to Kill a Seal for FoodRice Died in Frederick's Arms Funeral Procession over the Ice — Dead of StarvationOnly Seven Men Ever Left This Camp AliveWorld-famous Old Viking , Fridtjof NansenGiant Sentinels That Challenge the ExplorersPolar Bears on Drifting Floes a Hundred Miles at SeaLife beyond the Arctic Circle Native " Oomiak " ( Canoe ) Made of SealskinTwenty-six Thousand Seals Killed Every Year The Clue to the Fate of the Andre ExpeditionDogs That Carried Peary to North Pole , on Board " Roosevelt "" The Pole at Last " - the Prize of Three CenturiesThree Men Who Reached the Ends of the EarthRoosevelt , Always Peary's Friend, Greets HimPeary Suggested the Form of His Memorial At the Bottom o the World — Scott's ShipScott's Last Christmas DinnerPhotograph Taken at the South PoleDying Message of Captain ScottBack Home in London , Little Peter Scott Waits for His Daddy Photograph Taken by Amundsen HimselfAmundsen Photographs Four of His Men at the South PoleAmundsen at the Pole Determining His PositionAmundsen's Route to the South PoleThe Only Inhabitants of the Continent of AntarcticaCrushed by the Ice in the Weddell Sea Into Surging Seas on a 750 mile JourneyTwo Weeks before His Death — Shackleton's Last VoyageNight Photograph of Shackleton's Sinking ShipA Lone Grave in AntarcticaSir Ernest Shackleton , Who Died on His Ship in Antarctic SeasFirst to Fly to the North PoleThe " Josephine Ford " Dropped the American Flag on the North PoleAmundsen Congratulating Byrd on His Return to His Base President Coolidge Decorating Byrd and BennettThe Martyred Bennett Buried with National HonorsForty Norwegian Ships Sunk or Crushed by Ice Four Great Explorers Monument of the Great Explorer Who Saw Both PolesThe " Norge " on its Flight to the North PoleAmundsen Dropped These Flags over the North Pole from the NorgeExpedition Commander Roald Amundsen American Financier Lincoln Ellsworth Expedition Pilot Umberto NobileSpends His Life with Arctic Eskimos — Knud RasmussenFourteen Savage Northern " Huskies " Sir Hubert Wilkins, Ice-locked in the Antarctic at Deception Harbor First Across the Top of the WorldGiant Air Dirigible " Italia " Lost After Flight over North Pole Nobile's Faithful Dog Rescued with His Master -------- Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.
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Region: Antarctica
Topic: Polar
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Year Printed: 1930