Byrd's Great Adventure, with the Complete Story of All Polar Explorations for One Thousand Years (The Fight to Conquer the Ends of the Earth)

383 pp. Color frontispiece, photographs and engravings throughout, color North and South Pole route maps on endpapers. CONTENTS: The Fight to Conquer the Ends of the Earth; Little America at the Bottom of the World; Byrd's Historic Flight Over the South Pole; The Vast Continent of Antarctica, and What It Reveals; The Thousand-Year Conquest and How It Began; The Search for the Top of the World; Battling Against the Barriers of the North; The Heroic Struggle for the Northwest Passage; Lost in the Arctic--The Graveyard of the Ages; Rescue Ships on the Trail of the Great Mystery; Arctic Madness and the Terrors of the Long Night; The Men Who Came Back from the Dead; Facing Starvation at the World's Farthest Outpost; The Race of the Nations for the Goal; The American Flag is Planted at the North Pole; The Search for the Bottom of the World; Daring Attacks on the Ice-Locked Continent; Death Stalks in the Land of the Blizzard; Norway Plants Its Flag at the South Pole; The War for Possession of Antarctica; How Byrd Entered the Arena of Explorers; Byrd's Great Flight Over the North Pole; World Acclaims Byrd as the "Greatest Explorer of Modern Times;" Last Drives at the Arctic Barriers; Return of the Gladiators from the Antarctic Arena.