With Byrd at Bottom of World

by Norman D. Vaughn, Norman D. Vaughan, Cecil B. Murphey

Book Overview

The author recounts his experiences as a sled dog handler on Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica, detailing the dangers and the historic moments. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811719049
• ISBN13: 9780811719049
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

There still are heroes among us.

While vacationing in Alaska, I picked up this wonderful account of Antartic exploration in the 1920's by Norman Vaughn. It's a graphic description of life in the Antartic that convinced me that men were much tougher back then than they are today. Vaughn even spent time as a "coal stoker" on the ship carrying them to their eventual home for a year. Four hours of the hell he describes in the hold of that ship would reduce most of us to tears. He convinced the captain to allow him to do it, and suffered through it for 20 days, just to "toughen myself for the Antartic." When I finished the book, I remarked to the innkeeper how much I admired this hero, thinking he was long gone. She replied "Well, that's old Norm. He still lives around here. As a matter of fact he was just on the Leno show." Yep, he's 99 now, still living in Alaska, and promoting his latest book. I can't wait to read that one.