Kim Stanley Robinson @ The U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame

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Location: U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame | PURCHASE TICKETS HERE About the Book Interweaving memoir, some never-before-published photographs, and good old fashioned ice adventure, Kim Stanley Robinson takes readers along on the Arctic journeys that have happened before and the journeys that may never happen again. In May of 1911, Robert Scott and the twenty-four men under his command said good-bye to the sun and settled in for the long Antarctic winter. When the sun returned in September, they were going to try to become the first people to reach the South Pole. However, a week past the winter solstice, Scott's second-in-command took a team on a trip to Cape Crozier to man-haul two sledges through the perpetual night of the Antarctic winter, exposed to the coldest temperatures human beings had ever traveled in. This side trip was,

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  Kim Stanley RobinsonAuthorAmerican science fiction writer
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