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Edward J. Larson

To the Edges of the Earth

1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

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From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson comes an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the worldAs 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, “the Pole of Altitude,” located in the unexplored heights of the Himalayas. Before the calendar turned, three expeditions had faced death, mutiny, and the harshest conditions on the planet to raise flags at the farthest edges of the earth.In the course of one extraordinary year, Americans Robert Peary and Matthew… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-06-256448-1
  • EAN: 9780062564481
  • Produktnummer: 27677123
  • Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback

Über den Autor


EDWARD J. LARSON received the Pulitzer Prize for History for Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. He is the co-author of Modern Library’s The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison and author of The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, and A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800. He was an inaugural fellow at the National Library for the Study of George Washington. Larson is University Professor of History and holds the Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. He travels widely as a media commentator, visiting instructor, and guest speaker.

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