Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Golden Age of Polar ExplorationSkyhorse Publishing Inc., 2012 - 384 halaman In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history—no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel cameraman in the early 1900s, as well as a reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, scientist, and adventurer, capturing in his lens war and famine, cheating death repeatedly, meeting world leaders like Lenin and Stalin, and circling the globe on a zeppelin. Apprenticing with the greats of polar exploration, including Shackleton in the Antarctic, Wilkins recognized the importance of new technologies such as the airplane and submarine. He helped map the Canadian Arctic and plumbed the ocean depths from the icecap. A pioneer in the truest sense of the word, he became the first man to fly across the North Pole, which won him a knighthood; the first to fly to the Antarctic and discover land there by airplane; and the first to take a submarine under the Arctic ice. Grasping the link between the poles and changing global weather, Wilkins was a visionary in weather forecasting and the study of global warming. A true hero of the earth, he changed the way we look at our world. |
Isi
Maps Introduction | |
Notes | |
Prologue | |
In the Blood | |
True Adventure Thrills | |
An Adventurers Apprenticeship | |
The Mad Photographers | |
A Man Apart | |
Undiscovered Australia | |
Ultima Thule | |
Over the | |
Around the World in Twentyone Days | |
The Suicide Club | |
The Voyage of the Nautilus | |
King of the Antarctic | |
Restless Years | |
The Great Race | |
Unsuccessfully South | |
Drought Lands | |
Ninety Degrees North August 3 1958 | |
The Final Journey March 17 1959 | |
Edisi yang lain - Lihat semua
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration Simon Nasht Pratinjau terbatas - 2006 |
Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Golden Age of Polar Exploration Simon Nasht Pratinjau terbatas - 2011 |
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration Simon Nasht Pratinjau tidak tersedia - 2011 |
Istilah dan frasa umum
aboard Adelaide ahead airplane airship American Amundsen Antarctic Antarctica Arctic Ocean Australian aviation Barrow Bean beneath boat BPRC British Byrd Calvert camera Captain chance coast Commander continued crew crossing Danenhower Deception Island Despite Detroit diaries diving Eckener Eielson engine expedition exploration feet film flight floes flying Frank Hurley Graf Graf Zeppelin Hearst hope Hurley ibid Island journey Karluk knew Lady Suzanne land later Lincoln Ellsworth London looked Lowell Thomas Meyers miles months Nautilus navigation never North Pole officer photographers pilot plane plans polar race radio Ray Meyers record Richard Byrd scientific seemed sent Shackleton shell ship Sir Hubert Wilkins snow soon South Spitsbergen Stefansson submarine Sverdrup tanks took trip True Adventure Thrills turned U.S. Navy undated Undiscovered Australia Urantia Book vessel weather Wilkins wrote wind York Zeppelin