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Alone, The Classic Polar Adventure

Alone, The Classic Polar Adventure

by Richard E. Byrd  •  Kieran Mulvaney (Afterword)

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 309 PAGES

A facsimile edition of Byrd's 1938 best-selling journal. Byrd, already an American hero, produced this diary of beauty, isolation and the day-to-day struggle to maintain sanity while locked in a nine by thirteen shack with a defective heater (which was poisoning him with carbon monoxide).  (ANT74, $27.50)


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