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Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Groenland Ice Cap

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État
Comme neuf: Un livre qui a l’air neuf mais qui a été lu. La couverture ne présente pas d’usure et ...
Artist
Roberts, David
ISBN
0393868117
Book Title
Into the Great Emptiness : Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
Item Length
9.3 in
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year
2022
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
David Roberts
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Science
Topic
Earth Sciences / Geography, Adventurers & Explorers, Ecosystems & Habitats / Polar Regions, History
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 in Science and Technology The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing." By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed "Gino"), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent meteorological base on the icecap, 8,200 feet above sea level. The Ice Cap Station was to be the anchor of a transpolar route of air travel from Europe to North America. The weather on the ice cap was appalling. Fierce storms. Temperatures plunging lower than -50° Fahrenheit in the winter. Watkins's scheme called for rotating teams of two men each to monitor the station for two months at a time. No one had ever tried to winter over in that hostile landscape, let alone manage a weather station through twelve continuous months. Watkins was younger than anyone under his command. But he had several daring trips to the Arctic under his belt and no one doubted his judgement. The first crisis came in the fall when a snowstorm stranded a resupply mission halfway to the top for many weeks. When they arrived at the ice cap, there were not enough provisions and fuel for another two-man shift, so the station would have to be abandoned. Then team member August Courtauld made an astonishing offer. To enable the mission to go forward, he would monitor the station solo through the winter. When a team went up in March to relieve Courtauld, after weeks of brutal effort to make the 130-mile journey, they could find no trace of him or the station. By the end of March, Courtauld's situation was desperate. He was buried under an immovable load of frozen snow and was disastrously short on supplies. On April 21, four months after Courtauld began his solitary vigil, Gino Watkins set out inland with two companions to find and rescue him. David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" ( Washington Post ), draws on firsthand accounts and archival materials to tell the story of this daring expedition and of the epic survival ordeal that ensued.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393868117
ISBN-13
9780393868111
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27057239117

Product Key Features

Book Title
Into the Great Emptiness : Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
Author
David Roberts
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Earth Sciences / Geography, Adventurers & Explorers, Ecosystems & Habitats / Polar Regions, History
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
G760.R57 2022
Reviews
Roberts knows how to tell a good story, and he draws on firsthand accounts from team members to depict their excursions in harrowing detail. Perfect for fans of adventure stories, this one hits all the marks., For the subject of what turned out to be his final project, David Roberts selected a fascinating, little-known British explorer with odd charisma and an insatiable hunger for treacherous adventures. Into the Great Emptiness is a gripping saga--and one of Roberts' finest books.--Jon Krakauer Roberts knows how to tell a good story, and he draws on firsthand accounts from team members to depict their excursions in harrowing detail. Perfect for fans of adventure stories, this one hits all the marks.--Publishers Weekly, For the subject of what turned out to be his final project, David Roberts selected a fascinating, little-known British explorer with odd charisma and an insatiable hunger for treacherous adventures. Into the Great Emptiness is a gripping saga--and one of Roberts' finest books.
Lccn
2022-008994
Dewey Decimal
919.8204
Dewey Edition
23

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