The Heart of Stone: The Story of Nita Kakot Amundsen, Camilla Carpendale and Roald Amundsen
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The Heart of Stone: The Story of Nita Kakot Amundsen, Camilla Carpendale and Roald Amundsen
14.99 €
The book is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Roald Amundsen and continues the series of books of the publishing house "Paulsen" "For the first time in Russian".
Rual Amundsen is a legend of conquering the Earth's poles, the national hero of Norway, the "Napoleon of the polar countries". Everyone knows such Amundsen. However, in his biography there is a fact not so known to the general public - the story of his adoption of two Chukchi girls. In 1921, after an unsuccessful expedition aboard the "Maud", the great polar explorer returned to his estate Svartskug on the shore of Bunnefjord with two girls - an Eskimo girl of 4 years old and a half-Eskimo girl of about 12 years old. For several years, between the two world wars, the lives of Rual Amundsen, Camilla Carpendale and Nita Kakot Amundsen were intertwined. This entire personal, highly complex and contradictory story - of two children and an adult, world-famous polar explorer - became the subject of interest of Espen Itreberg, a well-known Norwegian author and researcher of R. Amundsen's life. The book tells of the life journey of Nita Kakot and Camilla Carpendale, how their fate became intricately intertwined with that of Amundsen himself, and why he had to return them to their homeland. This story is about the forces that first brought them together and then separated them. Today readers can familiarize themselves with this difficult story and answer the question: is the heart a stone? The author of the book relied not only on documentary sources, but also on personal impressions from trips to the places where the girls lived during their wanderings.
Rual Amundsen is a legend of conquering the Earth's poles, the national hero of Norway, the "Napoleon of the polar countries". Everyone knows such Amundsen. However, in his biography there is a fact not so known to the general public - the story of his adoption of two Chukchi girls. In 1921, after an unsuccessful expedition aboard the "Maud", the great polar explorer returned to his estate Svartskug on the shore of Bunnefjord with two girls - an Eskimo girl of 4 years old and a half-Eskimo girl of about 12 years old. For several years, between the two world wars, the lives of Rual Amundsen, Camilla Carpendale and Nita Kakot Amundsen were intertwined. This entire personal, highly complex and contradictory story - of two children and an adult, world-famous polar explorer - became the subject of interest of Espen Itreberg, a well-known Norwegian author and researcher of R. Amundsen's life. The book tells of the life journey of Nita Kakot and Camilla Carpendale, how their fate became intricately intertwined with that of Amundsen himself, and why he had to return them to their homeland. This story is about the forces that first brought them together and then separated them. Today readers can familiarize themselves with this difficult story and answer the question: is the heart a stone? The author of the book relied not only on documentary sources, but also on personal impressions from trips to the places where the girls lived during their wanderings.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series For the first time in Russian