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London: Pan Books, 1983. 565 pages, 16 pages of b/w plates, maps, bibliography, index. Prev owner's signature by the upper edge of the half-title page. Pages tanned and lightly foxed at and by the edges. Pictorial card cover, lightly foxed with some wear at the spine. Adapted for this paperback edition by the author.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.
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Scott and Amundsen: The Race to the South Pole Paperback - 1983
by Huntford, Roland
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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.
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- Title Scott and Amundsen: The Race to the South Pole
- Author Huntford, Roland
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised Edition
- Publisher Pan Books, London
- Date 1983
- ISBN 9780350280901
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