SOUTH WITH THE SUN: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery, by Lynne Cox (Knopf Doubleday, 320 pp.)
Lynne Cox – author and record-breaking long-distance swimmer – traces the path of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s polar explorations, just in time for the centennial of Amundsen’s arrival at the South Pole. (September)