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Race for the South Pole
The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
Race for the South Pole
The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
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Description
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 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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Product details
| Published | Sep 30 2010 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781441110770 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Illustrations | 25 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Featured in The Times.
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Featured in Metro.
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Interview with author Roland Huntford on The Browser. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/roland-huntford-on-polar-exploration
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There is gratitude for the translations he had provided which have enabled non-Norwegian speakers to read two previously unavailable texts. [Huntford] has given factual insights into subjects as varied as skiing, marine engines and the relationship of Amundsen's expedition to the International Date Line... [he] makes some fascinating points.
The Journal of Polar Record, Volume 47
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Race for the South Pole, while allowing the reader to savour the contrasts between the expedition diaries of Scott, Amundsen and Bjaaland, also shows Huntford in continued argument with his sources.
The Spectator
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Interview with author Roland Huntford in New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128320.200-scotts-biographer-british-polar-hero-was-incompetent.html

























