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The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who dies along with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain's beloved failure, while Amundsen, who not only beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, was largely forgotten. This account of their race is a gripping, highly readable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out. THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.Roland Huntford is the world's leading expert on arctic excursions and the people who lead them. He is the biographer of Shackleton and Nansen and the author of the award-winning Two Planks and a Passion: the Epic History of Skiing and Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth. For many years, he was The Observer's Nordic reporter.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375754746 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375754741 |
| Title | The Last Place on Earth |
| Author | Roland Huntford |
| Series | Modern Library Exploration |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1999-09-07 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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