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| #4258131 in Books | University of Nebraska Press | 1990-02-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .82 x5.87 x8.93l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.| Best book on the background of Scott's South Pole expedition|By Henning Allmers allmers@bgfa.ruhr-uni-bochum.de|Huxley gives the background information on why and how the South Pole expedition of 1910 -1913 became a disaster. The author gives valuable information to understand the history of this endeavor and why Scott was chosen as a leader beginning in the 1880s. She gives||
"[This] book is one of the finest to be written about the Antarctic and it certainly towers above any other biography of Scott. . . . [Elspeth Huxley] with compassion, insight, and imagination, follows [him] toward the Pole, failure, and death."—
After Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909, polar explorers looked toward the South. Robert Falcon Scott, whose 1901–1904 expedition into Antarctica's frozen shoulder had made him a celebrity in England, began plans to return. In June1910 the Terra Nova sailed toward the earth's underbelly.
When Scott's party reached the South Pole on January 17,1912, after severe hardships, they discovered that the Norwegian explorer Roald Amunds...
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