Hellbent for the Pole : an insider's account of the 'race to the South Pole' 1957-58

著者

• Martin, Geoffrey Lee

書誌事項

Hellbent for the Pole : an insider's account of the 'race to the South Pole' 1957-58

Geoffrey Lee Martin

Allen & Unwin, 2007

• : pbk

タイトル別名

Hell bent for the Pole

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

On January 21, 1958, Sir Vivian (then Dr) Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary met at the South Pole amid a worldwide blaze of controversy. It was the half way point of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition's first successful crossing of the Frozen Continent - but Hillary and his team, driving modified farm tractors, had made a 'hellbent dash to the Pole' (Hillary's words) five weeks earlier, pipping Fuchs and his team in their more sophisticated Snocats. Geoffrey Lee Martin was covering the infamous expedition for The Daily Telegraph and The New Zealand Herald and had unfettered access to its participants and personalities. The passage of time allows him to give a much more lively and informal insight into the personal relationships and conflicts, as well as post-colonial rivalry, than was possible at the time. Hellbent for the Pole is an engaging, often irreverent, account of the expedition, which is illustrated by many dramatic and now historic colour and black and white photographs taken by the author.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA89883857
• ISBN:
  • 9781741753677
• 出版国コード: at
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Crows Nest, N.S.W.
• ページ数/冊数: 160 p.
• 大きさ: 23 x 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : G850 1955 .T68
  • DC22 : 919.8904
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958)
  • LCSH : Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration