LONDON CALLING NORTH POLE (208 pp.)—H. J. Giskes—British Book Centre ($3.50). The decisive moment for Operation North Pole came at 2 p.m. on March 15, 1942. At that moment H. M. G. Lauwers, a Dutch ...
Even today, long after it has been reached many times, the North Pole beckons adventurers. An objective of explorers for centuries, setting foot atop our planet remains a formidable goal. And with the ...
"The history of the many attempts to reach the North Pole,” Norwegian author and adventurer Erling Kagge writes, “is also the history of how illusions of a frozen wasteland can lure people to their ...
1) What was the “aha” moment that inspired this specific expedition? I became passionate about the Polar region last March, when I participated in an expedition through Antarctica with Robert Swan OBE ...
During the Roaring '20s just about everybody was convinced that dirigibles were not just the future of luxury travel but that these lumbering airships could also serve as platforms for scientific ...
Derek Velez Partridge and Mary Packard, illus. by David Wenzel. Vista Clara Productions (thebookofkringle.com), $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-692-46717-6 In this action-driven Santa Claus origin story, an ...
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