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ZIN Product Number: 10036426
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 Format: Hardcover, 234 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195123824
Release Date: Jan 10, 1994
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"Inconstant and forbidding, the Arctic lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries - pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and stamina. A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic charts these quests and the eventual race for the North Pole in unprecedented detail, chronicling the lives and misconceptions that would eventually throw light on this "magical realm" of sunless winters." "With an account of nineteenth and twentieth century exploration and the longstanding myth of an open polar sea, the authors reconsider the achievements of the conventional arctic pioneers - Frederick Cook, Robert Peary, and Richard Bird. Moreover, they consider the consequences and rewards of human ambition and our perilous desire to conquer the unknown."--BOOK JACKET.
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| | | |  | | | | Preface | xi | | ONE The Nature of the Place | 3 | | TWO Sea Lungs, Godly Commerce, and Projections | 20 | | THREE Frizadores for Cathayo, and the Open Polar Sea | 39 | | FOUR Fool's Gold, Hooch, and Mutiny | 52 | | FIVE Connubial Fidelity and the Vicar of Wakefield | 68 | | SIX Open Seas and Closed Minds | 92 | | SEVEN Anything Is Good that Don't Poison You | 113 | | EIGHT Three Faces of Ambition | 131 |
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