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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.8904
EAN: 9781559634632
ISBN: 1559634634
Label: Island Press
Manufacturer: Island Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 310
Publication Date: August 08, 2003
Publisher: Island Press
Sales Rank: 325746
Studio: Island Press
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When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data and indulging his desire “to taste peace and quiet long enough to know how good they really are.” But early on things went terribly wrong. Isolated in the pervasive polar night with no hope of release until spring, Byrd began suffering inexplicable symptoms of mental and physical illness. By the time he discovered that carbon monoxide from a defective stovepipe was poisoning him, Byrd was already engaged in a monumental struggle to save his life and preserve his sanity.
When Alone was first published in 1938, it became an enormous bestseller. This edition keeps alive Byrd’s unforgettable narrative for new generations of readers.
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When I was thirteen, I read ALONE at the suggestion of my grandmother, Florence Wright Ferguson. Byrd's adventures in Antarctica set my imagination soaring way beyond the confines of my 7th grade classrooms.
This is the story of Byrd's near-death adventure during the winter of 1934 when he lived in a 9 x 12 shack buried in the Ross Ice Shelf located 123 miles south of his "capital city" of Little America.
ALONE describes Byrd's scientific curiosity about climate hoping to discover a relationship ... Read More
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I read this book in High School and I loved it then! Just a really great book.
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This is the first-hand account by Rear Admr. Richard E. Byrd of his solitary months in the winter of 1934 at the U.S. Advance Base in Antartica, written in 1938. Keep that in mind when reading it. It seems pedantic at first, even ho-hum but soon escalates into a page turner. Much of the book is taken directly from his diary and details not only his objectives but his failings. No electro-techno-gadgets here in 1934! He reveals candidly the humility visited on him by nature at her most severe and his incredible ... Read More
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What some people will do for adventure. The author describes a place no one in his right mind would want to endure. The descriptions of survival alone in the cold for many months are interesting. It was good , not great.
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I learned about Alone when I read The Promise, the sequel to Chaim Potok's The Chosen. I approached Alone with that psychological twist in mind. Rather than reading it as an adventure story, I read Alone as a companion to the DSM-IV. Byrd had help making this book a good read, true; but his story is absolutely riveting. I have read the criticisms of Byrd's ineptitude, his failure of boy scout basics. I can imagine how anyone's mind would go to pieces just knowing the impossibility of rescue, the remoteness of the ... Read More
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