Download 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antartica AudioBook Free
1912 was an incredible season, marking the elevation of the Heroic Age group of Exploration. Fascination with Antarctica was at fever pitch, and between 1910 and 1914 five teams of intrepid explorers embarked on the best contest of the era, to travel beyond the ends of the known world and conquer this previous great frontier. Pitted against each other were Captain Robert Falcon Scott for Britain, Roald Amundsen for Norway, Sir Douglas Mawson for Australasia, Wilhelm Filchner for Germany, and Nobu Shirase for Japan. "Conquest of the South Pole!" trumpeted the world's newspaper publishers in March 1912. Amundsen possessed earned. But behind all the news, there is a much bigger story. The exploits of the larger-than-life explorers, often narrated in their own words, excited and enthralled the entire world; the boundaries of our world were pushed all the way south Pole and the entranceway to Antarctica flung widely open. Drawing by himself polar encounters, Chris Turney shows why 1912 witnessed the dawn of a new age inside our knowledge of the natural world. The tales of stamina, self-sacrifice, and technological innovation that designated 1912 laid the building blocks for modern methodical exploration and also have continued to encourage future decades. 1912 can be an awe-inspiring quest - part nail-biting excitement, part scientific record - via an ancient and amazing land. Carries a PDF of photographs from these Antarctic expeditions.
