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Author : Evelyn Dowdeswell,J. A. Dowdeswell,Angela Seddon
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781432968915
Examines Antarctica and Robert Scott's epic expedition to the South Pole.
Author : Susan Solomon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0300099215
Details the expedition of Robert Falcon Scott and his British team to the South Pole in 1912.
Author : David Crane
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400031412
Historian David Crane, with full access to the explorer’s papers, diaries, and expedition records, gives us an illuminating portrait of Robert Falcon Scott that is more nuanced and balanced than any we have had before. In reassessing Scott’s life, Crane is able to provide a fresh perspective on not only the Discovery expedition of 1901—4 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910—13, but his remarkable scientific achievements and the challenges of his tumultuous private life. Neither foolhardy dilettante, nor the last romantic champion of his age, Scott is presented as a man of indomitable courage and questionable judgment. The result is an absolutely compelling portrait of a complicated hero.
Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199297528
Features Captain Scott's account of his tragic race with Roald Amundsen for the South Pole thrilled the world in 1913. Captain Scott's account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. This edition includes a list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication.
Author : Dr. David M. Wilson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316193580
The myth of Scott of the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, icon of fortitude and courage who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole on March 29th, 1912, is an enduring one, elevated, dismantled and restored during the turbulence of the succeeding century. Until now, the legend of the doomed Terra Nova expedition has been constructed out of Scott's own diaries and those of his companions, the sketches of 'Uncle Bill' Wilson and the celebrated photographs of Herbert Ponting. Yet for the final, fateful months of their journey, the systematic imaging of this extraordinary scientific endeavor was left to Scott himself, trained by Ponting. In the face of extreme climactic conditions and technical challenges at the dawn of photography, Scott achieved an iconic series of images; breathtaking polar panoramas, geographical and geological formations, and action photographs of the explorers and their animals, remarkable for their technical mastery as well as for their poignancy. Lost, fought over, neglected and finally resurrected, Scott's final photographs are here collected, accurately attributed and catalogued for the first time: a new dimension to the last great expedition of the Heroic Age and a humbling testament to the men whose graves still lie unmarked in the vastness of the Great Alone.
Author : Roald Amundsen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547671466
The South Pole is a book by Roald Amundsen and it represents an interesting first-hand account of the Norwegian expedition's successful attempt to reach the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen spends a great deal of time talking about logistics and placing of depots in preparation for his polar attempt all the way from the preparation leading up to the initial sea voyage, the voyage itself and then the establishing of a camp at the Antarctic. Although they were lucky with the weather, and Amundsen attributed the success of the expedition to "good luck", it is obvious that the Norwegian expedition was well prepared and ready for the troubles ahead; the equipment, the sledges with well-trained dogs, the supply depots with seal meat at regular intervals along the route, the sunglasses to avoid snow blindness; it was all thought of in advance.
Author : Joanna Grochowicz
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781925576894
Together, they have taken on the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success; never giving up, and never giving up on each other. This is the story of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica and the memorable characters, who with a band of shaggy ponies and savage dogs, follow a man they trust into the unknown. Battling storms at sea, impenetrable pack ice, man-eating whales, crevasses, blizzards, bad food, extreme temperatures, and equal measures of hunger, agony and snow blindness, the team pushes on against all odds. But will the weather hold? Will their rations be adequate? How will they know when they get there? And who invited the Norwegians? Into the White will leave you on the edge of your seat, hoping against hope that Scott and his men might survive their Antarctic ordeal to tell the tale.
Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult MM
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0330413295
Scott's expedition to the South Pole pitted him and his team not only against the elements but also against the Norwegian team, led by Amundsen. In the end, Scott was beaten by both. This title presents Scott's journal entries from preparations in New Zealand to his final message before he died.
Author : David Crane
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UCSC:32106019163705
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Author : Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803272480
After Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909, polar explorers looked toward the South. Robert Falcon Scott, whose 1901?1904 expedition into Antarctica's frozen shoulder had made him a celebrity in England, began plans to return. In June1910 the Terra Nova sailed toward the earth's underbelly. When Scott'søparty reached the South Pole on January 17,1912, after severe hardships, they discovered that the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beat them to it a month before. Demoralized, frozen, exhausted, and starved, they started to retrace their painful steps over the ice but were forced to stop only eleven miles from a supply depot. By a supreme act of will, the captain managed to write his last letters, which were found with the bodies in November. Elspeth Huxley draws on those letters and diaries in her luminous biography. It reaches back to Scott's first voyage to the Antarctic, introduces the charming sculptor he married in middle age after a whirlwind of self-doubt, and builds up to the last expedition?a marvel of teamwork?that will always be remembered for the nobility shown by men facing death. The story of Robert Falcon Scott is all the more interesting because he was a complex, self-questioning man whose conquest of the self was "a feat perhaps more admirable than the conquest of the Pole."
Author : Max Jones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191622335
Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek, starved and frozen to death, only eleven miles from a supply camp. In November 1912, a rescue party discovered their last letters and diaries, which told a story of bravery, hardship, and self-sacrifice that shocked the world. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated, through a close examination of the unprecedented outpouring of public grief at the news of the death of Scott and his companions. Max Jones uses fascinating new evidence and prevously unseen illustrations to take us back to this remarkable moment in modern history, and tells for the first time the full story of The Last Great Quest.
Author : David Crane
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0007450443
David Crane has given us a magisterial portrait of one of Britain's greatest heroes and explorers, acclaimed as the 'masterpiece' on the subject. Reissued for the 100th anniversary of Scott's doomed expedition. 'It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more...For God's sake look after our people.' These were the final words written in Scott's diary on 29 March 1912, as he lay dying of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold, in his tent on his return journey from the South Pole. Since then he has been the subject of many books. Yet in all the pages that have been written about him, the personality behind the legend has been forgotten or distorted beyond all recognition. David Crane's magisterial biography redresses this completely. By reassessing Scott's life and his substantial scientific achievements, Crane is able to provide a fresh and exciting perspective on both the Discovery expedition of 1901-4 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-12. The courage and tragedy of Scott's last journey are only one part of the process, for the scientific enquiry that led up to it transformed the whole nature and ambition of Antarctic exploration. Written with the full support of Scott's surviving relatives, and with access to the voluminous diaries and records of key participants, this definitive biography sets out to reconcile the very private struggles of the man with the very public life of extremes that he led.
Author : Sue Blackhall
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781595992
A fascinating biography of the British explorer whose legendary expedition to the South Pole was shrouded in controversy and tragedy. Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868-29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold. Before his appointment to lead the Discovery Expedition, Scott had followed the conventional career of a naval officer in peacetime Victorian Britain. It was the chance for personal distinction that led Scott to apply for the Discovery command, rather than any predilection for polar exploration. However, having taken this step, his name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic, the field of work to which he remained committed during the final twelve years of his life. Following the news of his death, Scott became an iconic British hero, a status maintained and reflected today by the many permanent memorials erected across the nation. Sue Blackhall reassesses the causes of the disaster that ended his and his comrades’ lives, and the extent of Scott’s personal culpability. From a previously unassailable position, Scott has become a figure of controversy, with questions raised about his competence and character. However, more recent research has on the whole regarded Scott more positively, emphasizing his personal bravery and stoicism while acknowledging his errors, but ascribing his expedition’s fate primarily to misfortune.
Author : Herbert Ponting
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781447481362
This classic book contains Ponting's well-written and witty account of Captain Scott's final Antarctic expedition of 1910-12. Fully detailed and with many of Ponting's own photographs, this moving account will make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of any admirer of Captain Scott, or anyone with an interest in travel and adventure. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UCSD:31822028801389
This entirely new edition of explorer Robert F. Scott's journal is a first-hand account of his final, ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1910, with more than 150 never-before-seen photographs.