Scott And Amundsen
The Last Place on Earth
$53.78
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2001
Summary
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain’s Robert Scott and Norway’s Roald Amundsen. Scott, who dies along with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain’s beloved failure, while Amundsen, who not only bea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349113951 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349113955 |
| Author: | Roland Huntford |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 438g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 145mm x 32mm |
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NEW YORK TIMES
In 600 wonderfully researched pages … Huntford has at last written the 3-dimensional book this immense drama deserves - SPECTATOR
Gripping …enthralling …Handles a great mass of material with exceptional intelligence and skill - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA brilliant achievement, as readable as an adventure story, as fact filled as an explorer’s manual, as compelling as history always is when brought to life - TORONTO STAR ‘One of the great debunking biographies’NEW YORK TIMES - On December 14, 1911, the classical age of Polar exploration ended when Norway’s Roald Amundsen conquered the South Pole. His competitor for the prizeAbout The Author
Roland Huntford
Roland Huntford is the former Scandinavian correspondent for the OBSERVER. He is the bestselling author of two critically acclaimed biographies of Ernest Shackleton and Fridtjof Nansen as well as the novel THE SEA OF DARKNESS. He lives near Cambridge.
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