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Climbing the Pole: Edmund Hillary & the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958 by John Thomson
45.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
In 1957 on the Antarctic Plateau Sir Edmund Hillary, the great New Zealand mountaineer, raced his expedition leader, Vivian Fuchs, to the South Pole for reasons that were never fully explained. Hillary’s spin was that the Pole was there and he had time and fuel to get there first: so he did. Hillary’s a ...Show more
Shackleton's Captain - A Biography of Frank Worsley by John Thomson
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Frank Worsley shared with Sir Ernest Shackleton one of the greatest adventures of the heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. After their ship Endurance was crushed in the ice in 1915, they made what is perhaps the most famous small-boat journey in history, across 800 miles of the world's roughest seas to ...Show more
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