Amundsen Roald Libros

Focusing on the Norwegian Antarctic expedition aboard the "Fram" from 1910 to 1912, this classic account offers a detailed narrative of the challenges and discoveries faced during the journey to the South Pole. Recognizing its historical significance, the book has been meticulously reformatted and retyped for clarity and readability, ensuring that its valuable insights remain accessible to contemporary and future readers.

Focusing on the Norwegian Antarctic expedition aboard the "Fram" from 1910 to 1912, this classic account offers a detailed narrative of exploration and adventure in one of the most challenging environments on Earth. The republished Volume II has been meticulously reformatted and retyped to ensure clarity and readability, preserving its historical significance for contemporary and future readers. The effort to maintain this work highlights its importance in the annals of human exploration.

This illustrated account details Roald Amundsen's historic journey as he and his Norwegian team became the first to reach the South Pole in 1911. The two-volume work captures the challenges, triumphs, and pioneering spirit of the expedition, providing a vivid portrayal of the harsh Antarctic environment and the team's determination. The translation offers insights into the strategic planning and innovative techniques that enabled their success, making it a significant contribution to the history of exploration.

At last we got away, on October 19. The weather for the past few days had not been altogether reliable; now windy, now calm - now snowing, now clear: regular spring weather, in other words... With this matter of fact sentence begins one of the most famous journeys in all exploration - Amundsen's conquest of the South Pole. The details of the tragic race with Scott are well known, but often forgotten is the sheer professionalism and courage which drove the Norwegian expedition on. Unlike the driven and tortured egos which bedeviled the British expeditions, the Norwegians worked purposefully as a team using the latest technology, and Amundsen acknowledges this openly when the Pole was finally achieved. I had determined that the act of planting it [the flag] - the historic event - should be equally divided among us all. It was not for one man to do this; it was for all who had staked their lives in the struggle, and held together through thick and thin. This was the only way in which I could show my gratitude to my comrades in this desolate spot... Five weather-beaten, frostbitten fists they were that grasped the pole, raised the waving flag in the air, and planted it as the first at

Account of the thrilling race to the south pole. With an introduction by Fridtjof Nansen.

My life as an Explorer is a classic of Polar literature, written by the one man to do more to further the exploration of both Polar regions than any other person. First sailing to the Antarctic in the 1899 Belgian expedition, Amundsen never lost his passion for exploring, following this trip with a journey around the top of Canada to prove the existence of the North West Passage between 1903 and 1906. Setting sail for the Antarctic a full month or so after Scott, Amundsen still managed to beat the British team to the Pole by a full month. Making a lot of money out of shipping during the First World War, Amundsen followed his epic journeys by being only the second man to travel around d the to of Siberia from Atlantic to Pacific oceans, then flying over the North Pole by airship. He died in 1928.

The 1912 English translation of the two-volume illustrated account of how Roald Amundsen's Norwegian team reached the South Pole first.