Across the Top of the World: to the North Pole By Sled, Balloon, Airplane and Nuclear Icebreaker

By David E. Fisher

Book Overview

A chronicle of the history of polar exploration describes the 1991 expedition of a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker across the polar ice cap and discusses previous expeditions to the North Pole and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067941116X
• ISBN13: 9780679411161
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Humorous and sensitive spin on polar history.

As a long time reader of polar history David Fisher's "Across the Top of the World" came as a breath of fresh air.The story proceeds like a polar expedition, moving through the degrees of latitude as the author relates his current adventure aboard a Soviet ice breaker and related artic history at the same latitude.Fisher treats the subject with humor and sensitivity. Journals from the period were dry and sanitized. Fisher takes the reader inside the adventurers.A splendid introduction to polar history.