Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure (Kodansha Globe.)
by Richard Evelyn Byrd
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Author: Richard Evelyn ByrdEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-06
ISBN: 1568360681
Number of pages: 309
Publisher: Kodansha America
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Book Review: The book that Changed My Life
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was thirteen, I read ALONE at the suggestion of my grandmother, Florence Wright Ferguson. Byrd's adventures in Antarctica set my imagination soaring way beyond the confines of my 7th grade classrooms.
This is the story of Byrd's near-death adventure during the winter of 1934 when he lived in a 9 x 12 shack buried in the Ross Ice Shelf located 123 miles south of his "capital city" of Little America.
ALONE describes Byrd's scientific curiosity about climate hoping to discover a relationship between Antarctic weather and that of the northern hemisphere.
This book led to my reading all of Byrd's other books and those of Captain Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, and Mawson. ALONE led to my writing Byrd, visiting with him and then sailing on his flagship, USS Glacier (AGB-4) during Operation DeepFreeze.
ALONE is a marvelous adventure story full of escapes from -70 winter temperatures and the daring rescue by three men from Little America, one of whom, Amory H. "Bud" Waite, I met while exploring on Glacier.
This book changed my life as I grew up to see Antarctica as a model of inquiry, imagination-driven explorations and discoveries about who we are as well as about geography and geology.
John Barell, Author of Quest for Antarctica--A Journey of Wonder and Discovery (2007), www.morecuriousminds.com
Summary of Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure (Kodansha Globe.)
At the beginning of this century only the Poles remained unexplored. They were magnets for great adventuring and scientific spirits, men like Richard Byrd.By 1934 Byrd was already famous. He had commanded the first Arctic transpolar flight and led several expeditions to Antarctica. His next project was to set up a weather station close to the South Pole and, with a staff of three, remain there through the six-month winter.
In the event, Byrd elected a solo mission. The story of the half year he spent in frozen and black isolation is a remarkable testament to his courage, his resilience and tenacity.
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