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Author Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957, author.

Title Exploring with Byrd : episodes of an adventurous life / Richard Evelyn Byrd.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2015.
©1937

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.
Americans language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Admiral Byrd Classics
Admiral Byrd's classics.
Note Admiral Byrd's Classics.
Reprint of the original 1937 book published by G.P. Putnam and Sons.
Summary "As the culminating volume of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr.'s renowned expeditions, this is the comprehensive autobiography of a man who knew no limits. From his earliest days as a Navy pilot in training, to his controversial flights to the North and South Poles, his lifelong passion for exploration, and his trailblazing quests across the Antarctic continent, Admiral Byrd was a man who stared down long odds, harsh climates, and harrowing landscapes, conquering them all with bravery now immortalized in American lore and legend. Reissued for today's readers, Admiral Byrd's classic explorations by land, air, and sea transport us to the farthest reaches of the globe. As companions on Byrd's journeys, modern audiences experience the polar landscape through Byrd's own struggles, doubts, revelations, and triumphs and share the excitement of these timeless adventures."--Amazon.com
Contents Exploring with BYRD; CONTENTS; I. Education of a Pilot; II. Flight to the North Pole; III. Fog Over Paris; IV. Antarctic Assault; V. Little America Is Born; VI. Escape from the Rockefeller Mountains; VII. Spring Preparations; VIII. Flight to the South Pole; IX. Eastward Beyond the Horizon; X. Return to Antarctica; XI. The Devil's Graveyard; XII. Little America Regained; XIII. A Loud and Stormy Month; XIV. The Winter Night; XV. The Winter Journey; XVI. Mystery of the Strait; XVII. Death of a City
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Language English.
Subject Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957.
Travel.
Arctic Regions.
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 -- Diaries.
Genre/Form Diaries.
Subject Explorers -- United States -- Diaries.
Explorers.
United States.
Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Diaries.
North Pole -- Aerial exploration -- Diaries.
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- American.
Antarctica.
Discoveries in geography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Air pilots, Military.
TRAVEL -- Australia & Oceania.
Discoveries in geography -- American.
Exploration, Aerial.
Arctic Ocean -- North Pole.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Diaries.
Added Title Episodes of an adventurous life
Other Form: Print version: Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957. Exploring with Byrd 9781442241688 (OCoLC)893452360
ISBN 9781442241695 (electronic book)
1442241691 (electronic book)
9781442241688
1442241683