Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen

by Roland Huntford

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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.

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1441126678

ISBN13:9781441126672

Release Date:November 2011

Publisher:Continuum

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Arctic & Antarctica Expeditions & Discoveries History Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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