Race for the south pole : the expedition diaries of Scott and Amundsen / Roland Huntford

By:

Huntford, Roland, 1927-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2011Description: xxi, 330 p. : ill., facsims, maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9781441126672

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DDC classification:

919.8904 22

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	National Library of India New English - Main Stack Division	New English	E 919.8904 H 919 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		PUR000566993ENG

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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