Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:ContinuumISBN-13:9781441126672ISBN-10:1441126678UPC:9781441126672Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Expeditions & Discoveries, Polar Regions, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCWMD1BHCS
Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
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.
For the first time Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the heart of the story, Huntford weaves the...Language:EnglishPublisher:ContinuumISBN-13:9781441126672ISBN-10:1441126678UPC:9781441126672Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Expeditions & Discoveries, Polar Regions, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCWMD1BHCS
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 and Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth and he is the biographer of Shackleton and Nansen. He was the Scandinavian correspondent on The Observer for many years.
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