South With The Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery-Fast Shipping

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“This book is as autobiographical as it is biographical . . . a bookthat juxtaposes two adventurers, one with her own challenges stillunfolding and the other with his position fixed in history . . . a bookworthy of the centenary celebration of Amundsen’s trek to the SouthPole.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Today the North and SouthPoles are home to research stations and film crews, but just a centuryago they were forbidding lands seldom seen by human eyes. Those whojourneyed there were the last true explorers, and one of the mostsuccessful ever was Roald Amundsen. Known as “the last of the Vikings,”the Norwegian-born Amundsen began his career of adventure at age fifteenand by forty had become the first man to successfully navigate theNorthwest Passage, and to reach both the North and South Poles.

Asa girl, Lynne Cox read of Amundsen’s exploits, which inspired her tofollow her own adventurous dreams of open-water swimming. Here, shegives an account of Amundsen’s life and expeditions while detailing herown experiences swimming (without a wetsuit) in the same polar regionshe first explored. At once a biography, history, and memoir, South with the Sun holds something for any lover of adventure.

“Not to miss . . . It’s fascinating to read about the Norwegian hardman through the eyes of Cox.”—Outside