Books: Polar Saga

NAUTILUS 90 NORTH (251 pp.)—Commander William R. Anderson, U.S.N., with Clay Blair Jr.—World ($3.95).

When that atomic Moby Dick, the nuclear submarine Nautilus, charged 1,830 miles under the North Pole and its ice pack last summer on its historic ocean-to-ocean passage, it was almost like a brilliantly calculated triumph of matter over matter. Perhaps the most striking drama was not the conflict of man v. the elements, which characterized the 19th century, but the contrast between that traditional conflict and the mid-20th century ease with which the sonar-watching, fathometer-reading, Coke-drinking crew of the...

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