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The epic adventure story of the North Pole – its transcendent beauty and dangerous appeal – from Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge, who travelled there in 1990.
‘Engaging . . . bracing . . . Why go? That masochistic drive is captured with great verve, as are the beauty of the Arctic and its terrifying hazards’ The Times Foot-stepping alongside Erling Kagge, we hear the story of the North Pole as never told before. From Herodotus, who first wondered what the northernmost point of our planet might be like, to the intrepid early cartographers who mapped our world, and the legendary expeditions led by Fridtjof Nansen and Robert Peary – the first polar-explorer global celebrities – who were in the grip of a dangerous obsession to get to the North Pole first. What emerges is a new history of the world, spanning thousands of years, as seen from the ‘silver-shining vacantness’ of the North Pole. Blending memories from Kagge and Børge Ousland’s 1990 expedition with this gripping history, The North Pole is an adventure story, a book about difficult fathers and difficult sons, and an inspiring record of what it means to keep putting one foot in front of the other in the face of adversity. ‘A strange, often beautiful book . . . The North Pole is in fact a love story, a record of an infatuation’ Daily Telegraph
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‘Compelling, expansive . . . gripping . . . epic’ The Times Literary Supplement ‘Heart-catching . . . a big book of ripping yarns and existential angst . . . fabulous’ Observer
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The North Pole Erling Kagge
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‘A beautiful book’ Alain de Botton
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‘The book of a lifetime’ Elif Shafak ‘Extraordinary’ Anne Applebaum ‘The North Pole proves to be the perfect subject for him’ Michael Palin ‘It’s impossible to read Erling Kagge and not fall in love with the North Pole’ Elizabeth Kolbert
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