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Did belong to a Library before but book and wrapper survived very well. >>> Like all great pioneering works from Charles Lindbergh's We and Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Alone to Sir Francis Chichester's Gypsy Moth Circles the World, Wally Herbert's journey is a highly personal one, the fulfillment of one man's life's ambition--to cross the frozen Arctic Ocean from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen by way of the North Pole, a distance of 3,800 miles. The British Trans-Arctic Expedition of 1968-69 was an epic journey. Four men, thirty-four huskies, 476 adventure-packed, danger-fraught days. At times they were in total darkness for twelve hours a day. The constantly moving, melting ice forced them off course and kept them consistently behind schedule. They lived in eternal cold with temperatures ranging around -60F. Pessimists had predicted they would not reach their goal. And then on May 29, 1969, success came--they had completed the greatest journey both in time and distance in the entire history of polar exploration!
