Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

The harrowing and heartfelt account of an adventurer's desire to feel true peace and isolation.
Richard E. Byrd spent five months alone operating the meteorological station at the advanced base camp in the long dark nights of Antarctic winter.
The following autobiographical tale tells of this adventure in 1934, from which he narrowly escaped with his life after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly ventilated stove.