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(More customer reviews)If you are a lover of exploration than Roald Amundsen has to be one of your heroes. This is not a lengthy book but it gives many facts not found in the other accounts of his explorations. This book is brief in it's coverage of the discovery of the Northwest Passage, his dash to the South Pole and his air flights and the dirgible flight, Norge over the North Pole. Amundsen knew how to prepare for success and this set him apart from so many of his competitors. His preparations for the South Pole expedition compared to Scott give no doubt as to why he made so easily. Much of this book is written about the Norge flight with the Italian, Nobile. There was much hard feeling in this event and Amundsen takes up much of this story in setting the record straight about Nobile's ineffectiveness and trouble making during most of this flight.
Yet in spite of his harsh comments about Nobile, he is gracious to all other explorers like, Scott, Perry, Cook and so many others.
The main theme of this short book, however, is the great insight it will give you as to why Amundsen succeeded in everything he did. He studied, he prepared, he read, he experimented with equipment and he selected capable people to be his on his team. This is a good add-on if you have read other accounts of his explorations. He was truly a great man.

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The true story of the first man to reach the South Pole. My life as an Explorer is a classic of Polar literature, written by the one man to do more to further the exploration of both Polar regions than any other person. First sailing to the Antarctic in the 1899 Belgian expedition, Amundsen never lost his passion for exploring, following this trip with a journey around the top of Canada to prove the existence of the North West Passage between 1903 and 1906. Setting sail for the Antarctic a full month or so after Scott, Amundsen still managed to beat the British team to the Pole by a full month. Making a lot of money out of shipping during the First World War, Amundsen followed his epic journeys by being only the second man to travel around d the to of Siberia from Atlantic to Pacific oceans, then flying over the North Pole by airship. He died in 1928.

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