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The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

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The Last Viking unravels the life of the person who stands head and shoulders above all people who raced to map the last corners of the arena. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole—remained blank spots at the globe. Within two decades Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which in a while thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity. Féted in his lifetime as an international celebrity, pursued by women and creditors, he died within the Arctic on a rescue mission for an inept rival explorer.

Stephen R. Bown has unearthed archival subject material to offer Amundsen’s life the awful immediacy of Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey within the World, the exciting detail of The Endurance, and the suspense of a Jon Krakauer tale. The Last Viking is both a thrilling literary biography and a cracking good story.
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