Two Against the Ice (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Theodore K. Mason
- First Published: 1982
- Time of Work: The 1890’s to the 1930’s
- Setting: Norway, the United States, Canada, Russia, Antarctica, and the Arctic Ocean
- Principal Characters: Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, James Ellsworth, Robert Scott, Umberto Nobile, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Oskar Omdal, Richard Byrd, Oscar Wisting
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: England or English people, Biography, Ice, Exploration or explorers, Polar regions, Norway or Norwegians, Geography, Sleds or sledding, North Pole, Outdoor life, South Pole
- Locales: United States, Canada, Russia, Antarctica, Norway, Arctic
Form and Content
In Two Against the Ice: Amundsen and Ellsworth, Theodore K. Mason examines the lives of two great polar explorers and attempts to fuse their two biographies into a single story. For the most part he succeeds, though the partnership between Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth was by no means so thorough that their names are as linked as those of, for example, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark or Orville and Wilbur Wright. He succeeds by deemphasizing the biographical aspects of their stories and focusing on their shared values, skills, and...
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