Race for the South Pole : the expedition diaries of Scott and Amundsen / Roland Huntford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huntford, Roland, 1927-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Pole--Discovery and exploration.

South Pole.

Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928.

Amundsen, Roald.

Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912.

Scott, Robert Falcon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, N.Y. : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English; diaries of Amundsen and Bjaaland translated from Norwegian by the author.

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. 2010 marks the centenary of 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

Contents:

Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Dramatis Personae; Abbreviations; Introduction; Race for the South Pole; Epilogue; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612821653

9781282821651

1282821652

9781441149282

1441149287

9781441110770

1441110771

OCLC:

670412135