Bok Klubb

South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery is this month's selection for discussion.   A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen's career of  adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a  family of merchant sea captains and rich ship owners). Twenty-five  years later he was the first man to reach both the North and South  Poles. The author, an adventurer and swimmer, author of Swimming to  Antarctica, gives us in this new work a full-scale account of Amundsen's  life and expeditions.  We see Amundsen, in 1903-06, the first to travel  the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in his  small ship Gjoa, a seventy-foot refitted former herring boat powered by  sails and a thirteen-horsepower engine, making his way through the  entire length of the treacherous ice bound route, between the northern…