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Polar Exploration: Ralph Plaisted, Will Steger, & Ann Bancroft: Secondary Sources: Books & Articles

Books

To the Top of the World: The Adventures and Misadventures of the Plaisted Polar Expedition, March 28-May 4, 1967, by Charles Kuralt.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968.
MNHS call number: G 670 1967 .P5

Ann Bancroft: On Top of the World, by Dorothy Wenzel. 
Minneapolis, Minn. : Dillon Press, 1990.
MNHS call number: G 627 .W46 1990

Four to the Pole!: The American Women's Expedition to Antarctica, 1992-93, by Nancy Loewen and Ann Bancroft.
North Haven, Conn.: Linnet Books, 2001.
MNHS call number: G 850 1992 .A43 A44 2001

The Arctic and Antarctic Trips, by Robert E. Matteson.
St. Paul, Minn.: R.E. Matteson, 1993.
MNHS call number: F 605.1 .M43 A3 1993d

Pull on a Parka and Join the Circle: Record of an Arctic Expedition, August 1970, by Dorothy Olcott Elsmith, Frederick Lamont Gates.
Woods Hole, Mass: Elsmith, 1970.
MNHS call number: F 1060.92 .E48

Polar Exploration, by Andrew Croft.
London: A. & C. Black, 1947.
MNHS call number: G 620 .C7 1947

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