This book’s real strength is the examination of what motivates an Arctic explorer. When the philosopher and polar explorer Peter Wessel Zapffe asked Roald Amundsen what he felt when he stood at ...

The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who ... achieved the financial security he had hoped his books and lectures would bring. In July 1918 he returned ...

For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole, and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald Amundsen accomplished all three in less than 10 years in ...