North Pole, South Pole Journeys to the Ends of the Earth
Remote, unpeopled, forbidding; the Poles were the last parts of the earth to be reached by man, and still exert a powerful hold on the imagination. In the 16th century the search for the legendary North West Passage claimed many lives. The North Pole proved after all to be an icebound spot in a froz...
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Thames and Hudson
1992
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The poles