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Lynne Cox Zuidwaarts met de zon
Roald Amundsen: zijn poolexpedities en zucht naar ontdekking
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 319 pagina's | Prometheus, Amsterdam | 2011
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Lynne Cox South with the sun
Roald Amundsen, his polar explorations, and the quest for discovery
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. The author, an adventurer and swimmer, author of Swimming to Antarctica, gives us in this new work a full-scale account of Amundsen's life and expeditions. We see Amundsen, in 1903-06, the first to travel the Northwest...
Engels | 291 pagina's | Alfred A. Knopf, New York | 2011
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