|
Vivian Ernest Fuchs - My Favourite Books
|
|
|
Vivian Ernest Fuchs
1908-1999
|
|
English geologist and explorer, b. Kent, educated at Cambridge. He was a geologist on expeditions to Greenland (1929) and to Africa (1930–38). After army service in World War II, Fuchs became connected (1947) with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, which included Antarctica; he directed the British Antarctic Survey from 1958 to 1973. With Sir Edmund Hillary he led (1957–58) the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and accomplished the first completely overland crossing of Antarctica. Fuchs was knighted in 1958 and in 1959 received the Hubbard Medal, the highest award of the National Geographic Society. He is credited with determining that Antarctica's ice lies atop a single landmass.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forty Years on Ice
by Charles Swithinbank, Sir Vivian Fuchs
More details and online buying at:
amazon.co.uk
|
The autobiography of the world-renowned glaciologist and explorer, telling of his exploration in the Arctic and Antarctic. Includes 40 of his own colour photographs.
|
|
|
 |
BACK to overview page |
|
|
|
|
(
wellige.com is an associate of
amazon.com,
amazon.de and
amazon.co.uk
)
|
Bookmark this page.
|
|
|
| |
|
Copyright © Tom Wellige, 1995-2010
All Rights Reserved
|
|
|
|
|
