Polar Dream: The Heroic Saga of the First Solo Journey by a Woman and Her Dog to the Pole

Ever dream of journeying to the Magnetic North Pole? Helen Thayer did, and in 1988, at temperatures that averaged 50 below, with only a husky as her companion, she became the first woman to ski to the North Pole alone. At the time she made this expedition she was 50 years old. This book came out of the journal she kept on her incredible adventure.