The North Pole : the history of an obsession
Kagge, Erling2025
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Throughout recorded human time, few places on Earth have inspired as much fascination as the North Pole. This is an otherworldly place with no latitude and no longitude, a place where the sun rises and stays aloft for six months before setting, plunging the expanse of ice and water into darkness for half a year. Long before we ever journeyed to the North Pole, human beings have wondered what the northernmost point of our planet might be like. It became densely mythologised by writers, thinkers, historians and philosophers across civilisations. Perhaps it was the actual garden of Eden? Or the sunny land of the Hyperboreans, as Herodotus surmised? Only recently did we get to the North Pole - fending off scurvy, polar bears and frostbite - to report on its strange wonders.
Main title:
The North Pole : the history of an obsession / Erling Kagge ; translated by Kari Dickson.
Author:
Kagge, Erling, authorDickson, Kari, translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Viking, 2025.
Collation:
xxii, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Norwegian.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241645833 (hbk)
Dewey class:
910.91632910.9163
LC class:
G627
Local class:
910.916
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4062122
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