The Crossing Of Antarctica; The Commonwealth Transantarctic Expedition, 1955 1958

Author: Vivian Fuchs (Created by); Edmund 1919-2008 Hillary (Created by)

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Price : 35.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781013888793
Publisher : Creative Media Partners, LLC
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Weight (g) : 0.766571
Publication date : 09 September 2021
Dimensions : .94 Inches X 6.14 Inches X 9.21 Inches
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This book is the full story told by the leadre of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and by Sir Edmund Hillary, leader of the New Zealand support party. Beginning with the landing of the advance party in November 1955 to establish a basr on the Wedell Sea when, like Shackle-ton, Fuchs found his ship trapped by ice, it tells the story of the two years of preperation and reconnaissance that led up to the final attempt. It include the daring crossing by air in a single-enginged aeroplane, and the subsidiary expeditions made, during the crossing, into the mountain ranges that rear above the surface of the ice. But, above all, it is the thrilling story of men who set out into the vast loneliness of the ubknown to discover what lay on and below a continent no one had ever traversed before and, in so doing, accomplished a feat of courage and endurance that will become a legend for succeeding generations.

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