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Discovering new places on Earth has tested the will of many explorers who have set out, hoping for adventure and glory. However these discoveries were the resulst of months at sea and often dangerous voyages. Slowly unexplored places became fewer. So explorers turned to the coldest parts of the Earth.
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"Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer, the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911, and a hero of the age of Antarctic exploration. Before his death in 1928, Amundsen was the first man to travel the Northwest Passage by ship, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. This absorbing text communicates the details of Amundsen's dangerous expedition and the weight of his contributions to polar exploration."--
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"In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, the telegram arrived: "Proceeding to Antarctic - Roald Amundsen." What was to be an expedition had become a race. One hundred and eight years later, Captain Louis Rudd readied himself for a similarly grueling task:...