South with the Sun- Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery

✍ Scribed by Cox, Lynne

• Book ID: 107092464
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 7 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307700490

✦ Synopsis

Roald Amundsen, "the last of the Vikings," left his mark on the Heroic Era as one of the most successful polar explorers ever.

A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen's career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant sea captains and rich ship owners); twenty-five years later he was the first man to reach both the North and South Poles.

Lynne Cox, adventurer and swimmer, author of S w imming to Antarctica("gripping" --Sports Illustrated) and Grayson("wondrous, and unforgettable" --Carl Hiaasen), gives us in South with the Sun a full-scale account of the explorer's life and expeditions.

We see Amundsen, in 1903-06, the first to travel the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in his small ship Gj øa, a seventy-foot refitted former herring boat powered by sails and a thirteen-horsepower engine, making his way through the...