The newspaper advertisement for volunteers to accompany Ernest
Shackleton on his planned traverse of Antarctica in 1914 was frank
in its offering. "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages,
bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful.
Honour and recognition in event of success." Still, hundreds
applied. There were few chances left to be the first to reach the
last challenge on Earth. As the 20th Century came of age, explorers
had uncovered most of the world's mysteries, sailing to the far
corners of the globe, ascending many of its most forbidding peaks,
crossing its greatest deserts and penetrating its thickest jungles.
Frozen, alien, inhospitable, dangerous, and close to impossible to
reach, there were only two tiny dots on the globe that human beings
had not yet set foot on--the North and South Poles. The Greatest
Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting and
stunning collection of twelve stories recounting the bravery,
resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traversed
frozen hells to be the first to reach the North or South Pole. It
is a collection that will both inspire and inform--and answer
questions about the limits of human endurance. Many men would die
during their challenging, frozen journeys, and their deaths were
not pleasant. Yet they continued to try again. Here are stories,
wrought by the challenging landscape and weather, that made these
explorers household names and heroes: Peary, Scott, Amundsen,
Shackleton, Franklin, Cherry-Garrard, Scott, Kane, Cook--and others
lost to history whose bravery was nonetheless as admirable. Each of
these men knew success would bring glory for their countries and
financial security and fame and eminent places in history for
themselves. Each knew also the odds of success were slim and the
chance of dying great. Nations held their collective breaths for
news of each expedition and those years later were termed the
Heroic Age of Exploration--there were simply no other endeavors
that captured the world's attention the various races to the poles.
The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told recaptures the
spirit, drama, and tragedy of a time in history that will never
come again.
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