Riding the ice wind : by kite and sledge across Antarctica /: by kite and sledge across Antarctica. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alastair Vere Nicoll ; foreword by Bear Grylls.
• Other Names: Nicoll, Alastair Vere
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Route Map; Introduction; 1 Beginnings; 2 Flaubert's Parrot; 3 A New Life; 4 Altered Reality; 5 Constructing the Creature; 6 There But Still Nowhere; 7 Family Matters; 8 Fly on my Wind; 9 A New Horizon; 10 The Icefall; 11 The Layer Cake; 12 Down and Out; 13 Silence Valley; 14 The Sword of Damocles; 15 Difficult Decisions; 16 It's All in the Mind; 17 Uncontactable; 18 Divide and Rule; 19 Heat Miser; 20 Travelling Without Moving; 21 The South Pole; 22 Leaving the End of the Earth; 23 North; 24 The Winds of Change; 25 Touching the Void; 26 Mutability.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations (chiefly color), maps
• Subjects: 919.8904092; Self-actualization (Psychology); Kite surfing -- Antarctica; Sledding -- Antarctica; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical; TRAVEL; Kite surfing; Self-actualization (Psychology); Sledding; Travel; Antarctica -- Description and travel; Antarctica; Electronic books; Travel -- Antarctica
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441676818; 1441676813; 9780857716477; 0857716476; 9780857730534; 0857730533
• Related ISBNs: 9781848853065; 1848853068
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.