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The Last Viking The Life of Roald Amundsen

Biography / Memoir Out of Print
By: Stephen R Bown(Author)
400 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Aurum Press
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  • The Last Viking ISBN: 9780306822667 Paperback Oct 2013 Out of Print #209698
  • The Last Viking ISBN: 9781845138448 Hardback Sep 2012 Out of Print #199978
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The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries – the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole – remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity.

Feted in his lifetime as an international celebrity, pursued by women and creditors, he died in the Arctic on a rescue mission for an inept rival explorer.

Stephen R. Bown has unearthed archival material to give Amundsen's life the grim immediacy of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World, the exciting detail of The Endurance, and the suspense of a Jon Krakauer tale. The Last Viking is both a thrilling literary biography and a cracking good story.

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Stephen R. Bown is the author of Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and A Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail, selected as one of the Globe and Mail's Top 100 books of 2004, and A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World, selected for the Scientific American Book Club, the History Book Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club. He lives with his wife and two young children near Banff in the Canadian Rockies.

Biography / Memoir Out of Print
By: Stephen R Bown(Author)
400 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Aurum Press
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"A superb biography of a fiercely driven explorer who traveled across the last inaccessible areas on earth before technical advances made the journey much easier."
- Kirkus Reviews

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