The North Pole. The History of an Obsession

Long before anyone traveled to the North Pole, people have had ideas about what hid under the North Star. Was it the Garden of Eden? A magical mountain? A place with eternal sun? It would take thousands of years before the North Pole was wrested from its secrets.
Author and adventurer Erling Kagge is the first to have skied to the North Pole, the South Pole and climbed Mount Everest. In this grand narrative about the world’s northernmost point, he follows his own and others’ tracks, and sets out on an expedition into the myths, literature and stories about what is at the top of the globe.
The North Pole is a thought-provoking book about nature and our own place in it. It is a personal account of curiosity and a desire for adventure, of life-threatening polar expeditions, climate change and geopolitics — for anyone who has looked towards the horizon and wondered what you will find if you just keep walking.