Polar exploration

the long version

Describes some of the many explorations made to both the North and South Poles. / Polar Exploration, DK Discovery Guides, Dramatic "eyewitness" accounts and highly informative text combine with detailed artwork to bring key historical events to life in an important new series of in-depth information books for 8 year-olds and up. Each title focuses on a topic of interest to this age group, who are hungry for facts. DK Discovery Guides make learning memorable-as well as fun! The series combines DK's main strengths: the accuracy of cutaway cross-section artwork and the immediacy of original photography with strictly factual yet richly evocative storytelling. The DK Discovery Guides will be a major resource for young students.