My Life Of Adventure

Description for MY LIFE OF ADVENTURE by Norman D Vaughan with Cecil B Murphey: On December 16, 1994, three days shy of his eighty-ninth birthday, Norman D Vaughan fulfilled a lifelong dream. He climbed Mount Vaughan, a 10, 300-foot antarctic peak named in his honor by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It was his latest adventure in a life dedicated to doing things that other people only dream of doing. In this book, Vaughan looks back on that life, recalling the majestic highs and unimaginable lows that he has experienced through the better part of the twentieth century. What a life it is. Born in 1905, when Theodore Roosevelt was president and polar exploration was in its heyday, Norman Vaughan was weaned on tales of Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, and Sir Robert Falcon Scott. In 1925, he left Harvard to join one of his heroes, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, in Newfoundland, bringing medical supplies by dog sled to isolated villages. He left school again three years later to go to Anta