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Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen (Paperback)
$16.60 - Save $0.87 (4%) - RRP $17.47 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for 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. December 2011 marks the centenary of the conclusion to the last great race of terrestrial discovery. This title presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words.
Full description- Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Published: 17 November 2011
- Format: Paperback 352 pages
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- Categories: Diaries, Letters & Journals | Geographical Discovery & Exploration | History Of Other Lands | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Expeditions
- ISBN 13: 9781441126672 ISBN 10: 1441126678
- Sales rank: 151,947
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Full description for Race for the South Pole
For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's full 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. December 2011 marks the centenary of the conclusion to the last great race of terrestrial discovery. 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 narrative from the protagonists' accounts of their own fate. What emerges is a whole new understanding of what really happened on the ice and the definitive account of the Race for the South Pole.
