Bertrand
Imbert - North Pole, South Pole: Journeys to the Ends of
the Earth
De achterflap:
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 frozen sea; yet Antarctica is a land mass with
its own beauty, the scene of Scott's tragic failure and
Amundsen's final victory. Today this, the world's last untouched
wilderness, is under threat; but the nations are finally
uniting to protect its white wastes.
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