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Alone

"...'Alone' is a unique and utterly absorbing record of the human will to endure. In March 1934, during his second expedition to Antarctica, Byrd left Little America to life in a tiny hut at Bolling Advance Weather Base. For the next four and a half months he was the only person at Advance Base, where the temperature fell to -83 degrees, with hurricane winds. With no hope of rescue before the spring thaw, he was slowly poisoned by carbon monoxide leaking from a defective stove. What began as a scientific experiment became a struggle for sanity in a dark, freezing, inhuman locale."

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  • "Tachtig° zuiderbreedte"
  • "Admiral Richard E. Byrd"
  • "Tachtig Zuiderbreedte"
  • "Alone. Français"
  • "Alone"@it
  • "Alone"@he

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  • ""When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1933, he was already an international hero for having made the first flights over the North and South Poles. But this undertaking was to be different: six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data and indulging his desire "to taste peace and quiet long enough to know how good they really are." Little did he know that he would experience less tranquility than he had anticipated. Isolated in the pervasive polar night with no hope of release until spring, Byrd began suffering inexplicable symptoms of mental and physical illness. By the time he discovered that carbon monoxide from a defective stovepipe was poisoning him, Byrd was already engaged in a monumental struggle to save his life and preserve his sanity. When Alone was first published in 1938, it became an enormous bestseller. This edition, featuring a new afterword by Kieran Mulvaney, brings Byrd's unforgettable narrative to a new generation of readers"--Provided by publisher."
  • ""...'Alone' is a unique and utterly absorbing record of the human will to endure. In March 1934, during his second expedition to Antarctica, Byrd left Little America to life in a tiny hut at Bolling Advance Weather Base. For the next four and a half months he was the only person at Advance Base, where the temperature fell to -83 degrees, with hurricane winds. With no hope of rescue before the spring thaw, he was slowly poisoned by carbon monoxide leaking from a defective stove. What began as a scientific experiment became a struggle for sanity in a dark, freezing, inhuman locale.""@en
  • "Byrd's personal experiences during his expedition of 1933-35."@en
  • "Byrd's personal experiences during his expedition of 1933-35."
  • "Jedna ze tří knih nejpopulárnějšího amerického polárního cestovatele a badatele-"admirála obou pólů". Literárně zpracovaný deníkový záznam prožitků a pocitů člověka, který z čisté touhy vyzkoušet sám na sobě důslednou samotu,stráví šest měsíců polární noci na Předsunuté základně Antarktidy. Tento mimo jiné též zkušený letec a námořník, který se díval smrti mnohokrát vstříc, prožívá v tomto prostředí při tragické nehodě strach mnohem děsivěji nežkdykoli předtím."
  • "Facsimile edition of the 1938 memoir of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expedition to the South Pole, where he spent over four months in the polar darkness and cold, almost losing his life to carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty stovepipe before being rescued."@en
  • "Facsimile edition of the 1938 memoir of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expedition to the South Pole, where he spent over four months in the polar darkness and cold, almost losing his life to carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty stovepipe before being rescued."
  • "When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1933, he was already an international hero for having made the first flights over the North and South Poles. But this undertaking was to be different: six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data and indulging his desire "to taste peace and quiet long enough to know how good they really are." Little did he know that he would experience less tranquility than he had anticipated. Isolated in the pervasive polar night with no hope of release until spring, Byrd began suffering inexplicable symptoms of mental and physical illness. By the time he discovered that carbon monoxide from a defective stovepipe was poisoning him, Byrd was already engaged in a monumental struggle to save his life and preserve his sanity. When Alone was first published in 1938, it became an enormous bestseller. This edition, featuring a new afterword by Kieran Mulvaney, brings Byrd's unforgettable narrative to a new generation of readers."
  • "Five months alone in the South Polar night by one of the princes of Polar expeditions."@en

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  • "Biography"@en
  • "Reisebericht"
  • "Diaries"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Erlebnisbericht"

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  • "בדד"
  • "Aufbruch ins Eis : Abenteuer Polarnacht"
  • "Alone"@en
  • "Alone"
  • "Alone. [An account of a winter spent alone at Bolling Advance Weather Base in the Antarctic.]"@en
  • "Allein! : Auf einsamer Wacht im Südeis"
  • "80° zuiderbreedte"
  • "Allein! Auf einsamer Wacht im Südeis"
  • "Alone : the classic polar adventure"
  • "Alone : the classic Pole adventure"
  • "Seul = Alone"
  • "Seul"
  • "Sám a sám"
  • "Alone : [the classic Polar adventure]"
  • "Aufbruch ins Eis das todesmutige Abenteuer des berühmten Polarforschers in der Antarktis"
  • "Badad"
  • "Allein : auf einsamer Wacht im Südeis"@en
  • "Allein : auf einsamer Wacht im Südeis"
  • "Soledad"@es
  • "Soledad"
  • "80* zuiderbreedte"
  • "Alone the classic polar adventure"@en
  • "Sam"
  • "Allein: auf einsamer macht im Südeis"
  • "80deg zuiderbreedte"
  • "Allein! Auf einfamer wacht im Südeis"
  • "Allein! : Auf einsamer Wacht im Suedeis"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Sám a sám v ledových pustinách jižní točny"
  • "Allein!"
  • "Alone [the classic polar adventure]"@en
  • "Seul : premier hivernage en solitaire dans l'Antarctique, 1934"
  • "Alone : [an account of the author's experience at the Advance Base during the American Antarctic Expedition of 1933-34]"@en
  • "Aufbruch ins Eis Abenteuer Polarnacht"
  • "Allein! : auf einsamer Wacht im Südeis"
  • "Solo"@it
  • "Solo"
  • "80° Zuiderbreedte"
  • "Alone. [An account of the author's experiences at the Advance Base during the American Antarctic Expedition of 1933-34.]"@en
  • "Allein"
  • "Alone : [The account of Byrd's five months' isolation at Advance Base, South Pole]"

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