The Race for the South Pole : In Their Own Words
Author(s): Roland Huntford
For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. 2010, marks the centenary of the last great race of terrestrial discovery. For the first time Scott's unedited diary entries run alongside those of Amundsen and Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy, with the polar journey at the heart of the story Huntford weaves a narrative frpm the protagonists explanations of their own fate. What emerges is a whole new understanding of what really happened on the ice.
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Roland Huntford is the world's foremost authority on the polar expeditions and their protagonists. He is the author of the award-winning Two Planks and a Passion: the Dramatic History of Skiing, Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth and biographer of Shackleton and Nansen. He was the Scandinavian correspondent on The Observer for many years.
Timeline; Maps; Introduction; Diaries; Conclusion; Epilogue Bibliography; Index.
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- : Continuum Publishing Corporation
- : Continuum Publishing Corporation
- : 0.699
- : 01 August 2010
- : 234mm X 156mm X 33mm
- : United States
- : 01 August 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Roland Huntford
- : Hardback
- : 919.8904
- : 352
- : 25 bw illustrations