Extraordinary ANNE APPLEBAUMThrilling . . . a record of an infatuation TELEGRAPH The book of a lifetime ELIF SHAFAKThe North Pole proves to be the perfect subject for him MICHAEL PALINHeartcatching . . . fabulous OBSERVER A beautiful book ALAIN DE BOTTONThe epic adventure story of humanitys obsession with the North Pole, from Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge who travelled there in 1990Throughout recorded human time, few places on Earth have inspired as much fascination as the North Pole. This is an otherworldly place where the sun rises and stays aloft for six whole months before setting, plunging the expanse of ice and water into darkness for half a year.Footstepping alongside Erling Kagge, who ventured to the North Pole in the spring of 1990, we hear the story of the North Pole as never told before. From Herodotus who first wondered what the northernmost point of our planet might be like, to the intrepid early cartographers who mapped the world, and the legendary expeditions led by Fridtjof Nansen and Robert Peary the first polar explorer global celebrities who were in the grip of a dangerous obsession to get to the North Pole first. What emerges is a new history of the world, spanning thousands of years, as seen from the silvershining vacantness of the North Pole.Blending memories from Kagges own 1990 trip with this epic history, The North Pole is an adventure story, a book about enacting hidden human dreams, about difficult fathers and their difficult sons, and a...

Binding: Hardback;304 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BG; Weight: 696 g; Dimensions: 214 x 153 x 37

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