On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just eleven miles from the depot of supplies that might have saved them. The remaining two members of the party were nowhere in sight, but Scott's eloquent diary revealed their nightmarishly similar fate. It is a story that continues to haunt the popular imagination, and which has never been told more grippingly or with greater compassion than in this book.
A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
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Author: Preston, Diana
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 046442002011
Details:
Author: Preston, Diana
Edition: 1st Mariner Books Ed
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 269
Release Date: 01-11-1999
Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780618002016
