The North Pole

Name: The North Pole
Author: Erling Kagge
ISBN: 9780241645833

by Erling Kagge

ISBN: 9780241645833

Published: 2025-02

Biography & Autobiography

'An extraordinary book that defies genre: an elegant travel account, a learned history and a psychological thriller wrapped in one' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'Erling Kagge is a deeply thoughtful writer . . . The North Pole proves to be the perfect subject for him' MICHAEL PALIN 'The book of a lifetime, from a rare writer-adventurer whose obsession and passion for his subject know no bounds' ELIF SHAFAK 'A beautiful book' ALAIN DE BOTTON Throughout recorded human time, few places on Earth have inspired as much fascination as the North Pole. This is an otherworldly place where the sun rises and stays aloft for six whole months before setting, plunging the expanse of ice and water into darkness for half a year. Foot-stepping alongside Erling Kagge, who ventured to the North Pole in the spring of 1990, we hear the story of the North Pole as never told before. From Herodotus who first wondered what the northernmost point of our planet might be like, to the intrepid early cartographers who mapped...

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