The Longest Winter
Scott's Other Heroes
$45.23
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2011
Summary
Scott’s ‘Northern Party’ played an important role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished, and the ship had failed to pick them up as winter approached. Stranded and desperate, the six men dug out an ice cave with no room to stand upright. Circumstances forced them closer together, and somehow they made it through the longest winter. Working from diaries, journals, and letters written by expedition members, Meredith Hooper…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719595905 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719595908 |
| Author: | Meredith Hooper |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 317g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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A cracking story
A cracking story - Mail on Sunday
This book relives their fears and squalid surroundings from day to day. Even as you lie in the sun on holiday, you will be chilled, gripped and amazed by the human resilience displayed in such awesome conditions - Daily MailAuthoritative and insightful … [an] enjoyable, vivid study of the English in extremis - Sunday TimesAbout The Author
Meredith Hooper
Meredith Hooper has the rare, possibly unique, distinction of being selected as a writer in Antarctica by three government programmes - the US National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Program, twice; by the British Admiralty, travelling on HMS Endurance; and by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions. She has written a range of books and articles on Antarctica (general market, academic, children’s). The Ferocious Summer was published in last August.
Meredith Hooper is a UK Trustee of the Brussels-based International Polar Foundation, a Trustee of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust and served as a juror on the British Antarctic Survey’s Artists & Writers Programme. She was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal by the US Congress in 2000.
Meredith was born in Australia and has been living in the UK since taking up a scholarship at Oxford to do post-graduate research.
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