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The Race for the South Pole: In Their Own Words (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Race for the South PoleIn 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. 2010, marks the centenary of the last great race of terrestrial discovery. In this book, the author presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words.
Full description- Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Published: 02 December 2010
- Format: Hardback 364 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Geographical Discovery & Exploration | History Of Other Lands | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Oral History | Expeditions
- ISBN 13: 9781441169822 ISBN 10: 1441169822
- Sales rank: 200,936
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Full description for The Race for the South Pole
For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. 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. 2010, marks the centenary of the last great race of terrestrial discovery. For the first time Scott's unedited diary entries run alongside those of Amundsen and Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy, with the polar journey at the heart of the story Huntford weaves a narrative frpm the protagonists explanations of their own fate. What emerges is a whole new understanding of what really happened on the ice.
