by Jean-Louis Étienne · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221059937
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«Transantarctica» is Jean-Louis Étienne's chronicle of the Antarctic expedition, published by Robert Laffont in 1990 (292 pages, in French).
Between the summer of 1989 and the spring of 1990, six men of different nationalities traveled some 6,300 kilometers across Antarctica with three sleds pulled by thirty-six dogs. The book recounts how they faced the wind, extreme cold and the solitude of the ice on an international expedition.
Paperback edition, published in the «L’Aventure continue» collection; the text was prepared with the collaboration of Éric Dumont and Valérie-Catherine Richez.
For readers interested in the history of polar expeditions and the exploration of Antarctica.
Jean-Louis Étienne is a French doctor, explorer and scientist. He is well known for his Arctic explorations, where he was the first man to reach the North Pole alone in 1986, and his Antarctic explorations, including the famous 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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