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Arctic Sun on My Path: The True Story of Americas Last Great Polar Explorer (The Explorers Club Classics)
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As a boy in Oslo, Brooklynborn Willie Knutsen had a dream. He dreamed of great ships slipping between massive ice floes, sled dogs straining eagerly against their leather harnesses, and the cold arctic sun glinting on vast stretches of inhospitable icy terrain. He dreamed of becoming an arctic explorera polar man!In 1936, he set off on a thirtythreeyear journey that began during the era of wooden ships and crude dogsleds, and ended during the atomic age of satellites probing polar secrets and nuclearpowered submarines gliding beneath the arctic ice. Throughout those years, Willie lived according to his his motto: If you make plans and stick to them, the sun will always be on your path.Willies life story is filled with adventure. In 1940, a gripping escape from Nazioccupied Norway led first to Greenland, then to America aboard an American coast guard icebreaker. The head of the U.S. Air Force personally invited Willie to join the Search and Rescue operations for the infamous Crimson Route, the World War II flight path from the United States to Europe via Labrador. After the war, with the Cold War in full stride, the military asked Willie to participate in topsecret missions to the high Arctic. This book holds the first public revelations of those projects.Near the end of his long and fascinating life, Willie asked his son, author Will Knutsen, to write his story. Over a period of five years, Will listened as Willie recounted his numerous exploits. Arctic Sun on My Path is the fruit of that effort. The polar mans artistic sense brings the book to life with color and colorful characters, many of them famous. Filled with suspense, humor, political intrigue, and human foibles, it is both a story of mankinds search to understand the unknown, and of one mans realization of his childhood dream.Near the end of his long and fascinating life, Willie asked his son, author Will Knutsen, to write his story. Over a period of five years, Will listened as Willie recounted his numerous exploits. Arctic Sun on My Path, the fourth book in the Explorers Club classics series, is the fruit of that effort. The polar mans artistic sense brings the book to life with color and colorful characters, many of them famous. Filled with suspense, humor, political intrigue, and human foible, it is both a story of mankinds search to understand the unknown, and of one mans realization of his childhood dream.
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