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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated

Name: The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated
Brand: Modern Library
SKU: 9780375754746
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Contributors:

Roland Huntford, Paul Theroux (Introduction by)

Publisher:

Modern Library

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History

Book Subcategory:

Polar Regions, Expeditions & Discoveries

Edition Description:

Revised Edition

Series:

Modern Library Exploration

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Release Date:

1999-09-07

ISBN 13:

9780375754746

Weight:

1.3 lbs

Size:

8.10 x 5.27 x 1.32 inches

Pages:

640

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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 beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, was largely forgotten. This account of their race is a gripping, highly readable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out. THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.

About the Author
Roland Huntford is the former Scandinavian correspondent for the London Observer. He is the bestselling author of two critically acclaimed biographies of Ernest Shackleton and Fridtjof Nansen as well as the novel Sea of Darkness. He lives in Cambridge, England.

Paul Theroux's highly acclaimed novels include Blinding Light, Hotel Honolulu, My Other Life, Kowloon Tong, and The Mosquito Coast. His renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and The Happy Isles of Oceania. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.

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