THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH (Trans-Antarctica] R.B. Thomson 1969 Hardcover DJ Near Fine (Thomson, R.B.)

	Item #: PL6776-167 THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH (Trans-Antarctica] R.B. Thomson 1969 Hardcover DJ Near Fine By Thomson, R.B. Price: $9.99 List Price: $19.95 You Save $9.96 (50%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
Detailed Product Description
Austraila, A. H. And A. W. Reed, 1969, 1st edition. 192 pp, b/w photos, mapped end papers. Blue cloth hardcover with navy titles and slightly chipped dust jacket, else Fine. Story of the 1962 Wilkes-Volstock Travese. A vivid story of science, friendship, and harsh conditions on Antarctica. The Wilkes-Vostok Antarctic Traverse of 1962. The Vostok traverse was a 3000 kilometre four-month trip across Antarctica undertaken by ANARE the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in 1962. Using two bright red painted 1943 World War II M29 Weasel tracked vehicles and two 1950 D4 Caterpillar Inc. tractors the 6-man expedition left Wilkes Base on the coast for the Russian Vostok Station deep in the Antarctic interior. Much of the journey was over previously unexplored territory. The Weasels achieved 2 miles to the gallon and the tractors one mile per gallon, so a fuel dump was requested from the American McMurdo Station. It is possible that by measuring distance in kilometers, and measuring fuel use in miles per gallon, they were like that space station that had some nuts and bolts in metric, and some in standard. When they arrived they found the Russians had evacuated the station 12 months beforehand in such haste that food had been left half cooked on the stove. The generators were started up and the snap-frozen steaks were finished and eaten by the team. The trip ranks as one of Australia's most historic traverses. Who names these books? The coldest place on our blue planet is a village in Siberia called Oymyakon. ''By winter average temperatures, it is the coldest permanently inhabited settlement on Earth.'' There is a nice video on YouTube about how the children in the village get to school in -50c temperature. If the school bus is over 10 minutes late, the children have to go home, walking maybe a mile, in fresh snow. If they kept waiting they would die.
Other Items You Might Like
Similar Items Available Items From This Author Items From This Category LET'S SEE THE HIGHLANDS A.A. Thomson 1931 1st ed Hardcover Near Fine *By: Thomson, A.A.* Price $10.00 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $20.00 (67%) *- Item # OP2924-212* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE SEA AND THE ICE: A NATURALIST IN ANTARCTICA Louis J. Halle 1989 Softcover Near Fine-Fine Multiple Copies Available *By: Halle, Louis J.* Price $1.49 ~ Regular $9.95, You Save $8.46 (85%) *- Item # PL93-1674* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE CROSSING: SIR VIVIAN FUCHS, SIR EDMUND HILLARY AND THE TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION OF 1955-58 John Knight 2018 1st UK edition New hardcover *By: Knight, John* Price $34.95 *- Item # PL4269-167* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MOUNTAIN WORLD 1962/1963 Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available *By: Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research* Price $35.00 ~ Regular $75.00, You Save $40.00 (53%) *- Item # MW1962-179* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE SEA AND THE ICE: A NATURALIST IN ANTARCTICA Louis J. Halle 1973 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine *By: Halle, Louis J.* Price $3.49 ~ Regular $19.95, You Save $16.46 (83%) *- Item # PL93A-167* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ANTARCTICA: BEAUTY IN THE EXTREME Jonathan Chester 1991 1st ed Hardcover New *By: Chester, Jonathan* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $55.00, You Save $35.01 (64%) *- Item # PL4332-167p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart BERGE DER WELT 1962/1963 [MOUNTAIN WORLD 1962/1963] Hardcover DJ Fine *By: Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $75.00, You Save $65.01 (87%) *- Item # MW1962A-1792* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE PRIMAL ALLIANCE: EARTH AND OCEAN Kauffman, Hay and Brower 1971 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine *By: Kauffman, Richard, John Hay, and Kenneth Brower* Price $7.99 ~ Regular $35.00, You Save $27.01 (77%) *- Item # OP1895-179p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE CROSSING OF ANTARCTICA : ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE EPIC JOURNEY THAT FULFILLED SHACKLETON'S DREAM George Lowe 2014 1st ed Hardcover Fine Multiple copies available *By: Lowe, George, Huw Lewis-Jones* Price $14.99 ~ Regular $50.00, You Save $35.01 (70%) *- Item # PL4394-1673p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA David Campbell 1992 1st ed Pbk Near Fine *By: Campbell, David* Price $10.00 ~ Regular $19.95, You Save $9.95 (50%) *- Item # PL8969-162* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart Sorry, we were unable find any similar items available by this author. VICTORIAN MOUNTAINEERS Ronald Clark 1953 1st UK ed Hardcover Near Fine *By: Clark, Ronald* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $65.00, You Save $55.01 (85%) *- Item # OP1190A-865* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart SKYWARD Richard E. Byrd 1934 Hardcover Very Good *By: Byrd, Richard E.* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $40.00, You Save $30.01 (75%) *- Item # PL5910-167* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE ADVENTURES OF A NATURE GUIDE Enos A. Mills 1920 1st ed Hardcover Very Good *By: Mills, Enos A.* Price $59.95 ~ Regular $60.00, You Save $0.05 (0%) *- Item # OP2409A-498* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart STORIES OF A YOUNG CLIMBER Pat Ament 1996 1st ed Paperback Multiple Copies Available *By: Ament, Pat* Price $11.99 ~ Regular $25.00, You Save $13.01 (52%) *- Item # BK1790B-2965* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart HIMALAYAN PASSAGE: SEVEN MONTHS IN THE HIGH COUNTRY OF TIBET, NEPAL, CHINA, INDIA AND PAKISTAN Jeremy Schmidt, Pat Morrow 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine *By: Schmidt, Jeremy and Patrick Morrow* Price $14.99 ~ Regular $22.95, You Save $7.96 (35%) *- Item # BK71381-308* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart IN THE SHADOW OF DENALI 1994 1st ed Paperback Near Fine SIGNED by Jon Waterman *By: Waterman, Jonathan* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $20.01 (67%) *- Item # BK1650B-7421* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALL 14 EIGHT-THOUSANDERS 1988 1st US edition Hardcover DJ New SIGNED by Reinhold Messner, Kurt Diemberger and Krzysztof Wielicki *By: Messner, Reinhold* Price $165.00 ~ Regular $250.00, You Save $85.00 (34%) *- Item # OP1014CAB-385p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart EVEREST: EXPEDITION TO THE ULTIMATE 1979 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine Multiple Copies Available [Not Signed] *By: Messner, Reinhold* Price $25.00 ~ Regular $150.00, You Save $125.00 (83%) *- Item # BK52E-2824* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart DANZIGER'S TRAVELS: BEYOND FORBIDDEN FRONTIERS Nick Danziger 1988 Paperback Very Good *By: Danziger, Nick* Price $4.95 ~ Regular $8.95, You Save $4.00 (45%) *- Item # OP6609-376* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart 3Y0PI Peter I Island 1994 Dxpedition ANTARCTICA SIGNED by Bob Schneider, author *By: Schneider, Robert W., KK6EK,* Price $50.00 *- Item # PL4486-167* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart