Amundsen

Author: Jin Tao / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book is a biographical story, chronicling the legendary life of the famous polar explorer Roald Amundsen. In his youth, Amundsen was inspired by the book "The Franklin Expedition" and set his sights on polar exploration. As an adult, he made multiple expeditions to the Arctic, opening a sea route from the Atlantic across the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific. He was the only person to successfully circumnavigate the globe along the Arctic coast. Later, he launched an assault on the South Pole and, in competition with the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, became the first person to reach the South Pole. Eventually, he perished in the turbulent Arctic Ocean while attempting to rescue stranded explorers.