Name: Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
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Author: David Roberts
ISBN: 9781324086376

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Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Roberts

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781324086376

Synopsis "Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap"

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed "Gino"), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent meteorological base on the icecap, 8,200 feet above sea level. The Ice Cap Station was to be the anchor of a transpolar route of air travel from Europe to North America.The weather on the ice cap was appalling. Fierce storms. Temperatures plunging lower than -50 Fahrenheit in the winter. Watkins's scheme called for rotating teams of two men each to monitor the station for two months at a time. No one had ever tried to winter over in that hostile landscape, let alone manage a weather station through twelve continuous months. Watkins was younger than anyone under his command. But he had several daring trips to the Arctic under his belt and no one doubted his judgement.The first crisis came in the fall when a snowstorm stranded a resupply mission halfway to the top for many weeks. When they arrived at the ice cap, there were not enough provisions and fuel for another two-man shift, so the station would have to be abandoned. Then team member August Courtauld made an astonishing offer. To enable the mission to go forward, he would monitor the station solo through the winter. When a team went up in March to relieve Courtauld, after weeks of brutal effort to make the 130-mile journey, they could find no trace of him or the station. By the end of March, Courtauld's situation was desperate. He was buried under an immovable load of frozen snow and was disastrously short on supplies. On April 21, four months after Courtauld began his solitary vigil, Gino Watkins set out inland with two companions to find and rescue him.David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), draws on firsthand accounts and archival materials to tell the story of this daring expedition and of the epic survival ordeal that ensued.

David Roberts

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David Roberts es un ilustrador y autor británico conocido principalmente por su trabajo en libros infantiles. Su estilo se caracteriza por el uso de colores vibrantes, personajes expresivos y un enfoque lúdico que capta la atención de los niños, combinando humor y calidez en cada ilustración.

Roberts ha colaborado con diversos autores reconocidos, entre ellos Andrea Beaty en libros como Rosie Revere, Engineer, Ada Twist, Scientist e Iggy Peck, Architect, donde sus ilustraciones complementan perfectamente la narrativa, haciendo que las historias sean más accesibles y atractivas para los jóvenes lectores.

Además de trabajar como ilustrador, Roberts ha publicado sus propios libros infantiles, donde combina sus habilidades narrativas y artísticas para crear historias originales. Su trabajo ha recibido elogios tanto de críticos como de educadores, y sus libros se utilizan ampliamente en entornos escolares para fomentar la lectura, la creatividad y el interés por temas STEM (ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas).

Su contribución a la literatura infantil contemporánea lo ha consolidado como uno de los ilustradores más influyentes del Reino Unido, conocido por inspirar a generaciones de jóvenes lectores con su arte dinámico y expresivo.

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