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Riding the Ice Wind
Publication details: I.B. Tauris 2010Description: 272 pagesISBN:- 9781848853065
- 919.8904092 GRY
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| English Books | Anna Centenary Library 7TH FLOOR, B WING | 919.8904092 GRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 334964 |
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| 919.8904 SCO Journals : Scott's last expedition | 919.8904 SHA Escape from the Antarctic | 919.8904092 FIE Captain Scott | 919.8904092 GRY Riding the Ice Wind | 919.8904092 JON The last great quest : captain Scott's Antarctic sacrifice | 919.890422 TYL The lost men : the harrowing saga of Shackleton's Ross sea party | 919.904 COC Space on Earth |
Leaving the security of friends, work, and a wife, Alastair Vere Nicoll joined a team of young men to harness the katabatic winds and haul and kite-surf across Antarctica: the coldest, windiest, most violent continent on earth. Not since Shackleton nearly perished attempting the same thing in his Endurance expedition had such a crossing been attempted. This is the story not only of the first West-to-East traverse of the continent of Antarctica, but of the crossing of two phases in the author’s life—from youth into manhood, fantasy into reality. It is also the story of a race against time, as he fought to get home for the birth of his first child. As Alastair battled through the freezing wastes, exploring the earth’s wildest continent and his deepest self, he was haunted by the ghosts of past explorers and by the question of what it is to be a “modern man.”
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