The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1559708255
ISBN 13
9781559708258
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Unknown
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
368
Description
This riveting biography recounts the life of the world's first truly modern explorer, a life of unrelenting adventure and the high drama of polar exploration. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history: no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, he was a celebrated reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, scientist, and adventurer. He captured in his lens war and famine, cheated death repeatedly, met world leaders like Lenin, Mussolini, and King George V, and circled the globe on a zeppelin. Knighted for being the first person to fly across the North Pole, Wilkins was also the first to fly in the Antarctic, discover land by airplane, and take a submarine under the Arctic ice. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
