THE SOUTH POLE: By Captain Roald Amundsen - First To Reach The South Pole.

A very interesting and entertaining book.

This is what Roland Huntford wrote, in his irtroduction to the book:

"Amundsen's account is all that is Scott's is not. It honours tyhose who blazed the trail. It is wry, free from posturing, informative, honest of purpose, understated, with a subtext of drama that even teh barrier of translation cannot conceal....The South Pole is both an exhilarating tale and a record of the greatest snow journey ever made"

ICEMASTER by Niven . Story of an artic expedition that turned into a disaster. The opposite, not only in location, of the book mentioned by Saeed. It is a good read. Boy, these were some tough individuals

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