Filter By Subjects
Amundsen, Roald 1872-1928 Travel Antarctica Antarctica Discovery and exploration Antarctica Exploration Explorers Biography O'Brady, Colin Travel Antarctica Rudd, Lou Travel Antarctica Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912 Travel Antarctica South Pole Discovery and exploration South Pole Discovery and exploration Juvenile literature South Pole ExplorationFilter By Subjects
Amundsen, Roald 1872-1928 Travel Antarctica Antarctica Discovery and exploration Antarctica Exploration Explorers Biography O'Brady, Colin Travel Antarctica Rudd, Lou Travel Antarctica Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912 Travel Antarctica South Pole Discovery and exploration South Pole Discovery and exploration Juvenile literature South Pole ExplorationNielsen, Jerri.
Summary: A physician stranded at the South Pole describes how she discovered a lump in her breast, treated herself with a biopsy and chemotherapy, and was rescued by the Air National Guard, and reflects on her experiences and her colleagues. The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes or boats and the only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIELSEN, JERRI NIEBarone, Rebecca (Rebecca E.)
Summary: "In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, the telegram arrived: "Proceeding to Antarctic - Roald Amundsen." What was to be an expedition had become a race. One hundred and eight years later, Captain...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021