A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South PoleHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999 - 288 pages 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. |
Contents
Maps | 10 |
What Castles One Builds | 173 |
Is God Help Us | 187 |
We Have Got to Face It Now | 206 |
The Early Heats of the Great Race | 239 |
Scott The Early Days 3 Ready Aye Ready | 240 |
Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came s Poor Old Shackleton 6 Little Human Insects | 241 |
The Reluctant Celebrity 8 Captain Scott in Love | 242 |
A Matter of Honour | 243 |
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