Near Death in the Arctic - (Vintage Departures) by Cecil Kuhne (Paperback)

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About the Book Kuhne gathers astonishing tales of man versus nature, of the human desire to explore and the animal instinct to live, set against the bleakly beautiful backdrop of the North and South Poles. Among the adventures recounted include Ernest Shackleton and his doomed exploration aboard the "Endurance." Book Synopsis "The fine snow choked his eyes, ears, and throat, and he did not hear his own smothered death cry. Down in cold blackness, 150 feet down, his falling body smashed into a projecting ledge of ironclad ice. With the shattered remains of his sledge, with the doomed dogs, Belgrave Ninnis plunged deeper and deeper into the abyss." --Lennard Bickel's Mawson's Will . In Near D…