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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221130711
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Pages : 480
Size : 153 x 240 mm
Paul-Emile Victor - J'ai toujours vécu demain

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Release date : 05/11/2015
~A biography of this extraordinary adventurer of the
20th century, told by his daughter Daphné and the
journalist Stéphane Dugast.
~As an ethnographer, polar explorer,
ecological pioneer, and much-loved
personality, Paul-Émile Victor left a mark on
his age. Born in 1907 in the Jura region of
Switzerland, he abandoned the family
environment of pipes and pens in order to
climb aboard Jean-Baptiste Charcot’s boat
sailing for Greenland. That was the start of
his adventures at the poles. From...
~As an ethnographer, polar explorer,
ecological pioneer, and much-loved
personality, Paul-Émile Victor left a mark on
his age. Born in 1907 in the Jura region of
Switzerland, he abandoned the family
environment of pipes and pens in order to
climb aboard Jean-Baptiste Charcot’s boat
sailing for Greenland. That was the start of
his adventures at the poles. From the Arctic
to the Antarctic, he crossed the globe, living
with the Eskimos, discovering unknown
lands, and organizing extreme scientific
missions. A friend of the explorers Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry and Jacques Cousteau,
Paul-Émile Victor was an influential,
committed, and insatiable man who died
twenty years ago enjoying the sun of Bora-
Bora.
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EAN : 9782221130711
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 480
Size : 153 x 240 mm
Robert Laffont