About this title: First published in the late 1970s, this book details the events surrounding the first voyage to the South Pole. The British Naval officer Robert Falcon Scott and crew died on the return from the Pole, after discovering that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had reached the site first in 1911.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books, London
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780330288163ISBN:0330288164
Description: Good. 565 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm. Includes: illustrations, maps, portraits, plates. Previously published as: Scott and Amundsen. 1983. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [546]-548. read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780689707018ISBN:0689707010
Description: Very Good. While this Mobil Masterpiece Theatre book has some creasing to the spine, it is otherwise as good as new. It remains tight, is solidly bound and sports a cover as clean and lustrous as ever. Includes a number of photographic illustrations--you'll somersault with delight on arrival of this book! ! ! ! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780330288163ISBN:0330288164
Description: Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Trade paperback, Pan Books U.K. edition. Tanning to the pages else no rips, tears or marks of any kind. Email for photo. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780375754746ISBN:0375754741
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Slight cover wear; no remainder mark; no underlining/highlighting/notes inside; no spine crease; binding straight, tight; pages bright, odor-free; will pack securely, ship promptly with Delivery Confirmation. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 640 p. Contains: Illustrations. Modern Library Exploration. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 565 p. Audience: General/trade. (Polar Exploration) read more
"I read the book after I watched the PBS miniseries of the same name. Though it often gets VERY technical, and is clearly biased toward Amundsen, it is a great true-life adventure story. In 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the English naval officer, starts on an expedition to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian polar explorer, also wants to be the first man to the South Pole. The race that ensues would make history, Amundsen the winner, and Scott a "hero"."
"Since I live in a cold area of the Midwest, Minnesota, I like reading this book because it is about a place that is much colder. That, and it is an interesting description of explorers in the antartic."
"Very excellent. Although the audiobook version I have appears to abridged; I'll have to pick up the actual book at some point and find out what I missed. Anyway, Huntford's done an excellent job here of comparing Scott's and Amundsen's expeditions to the South Pole, alternating back and forth between the two parties, beginning with their backgrounds. It's easy to see who's the villain in Huntford's view. Scott comes across here as nothing more than a stubborn, arrogant, stupid bumbler who got what he deserved. I find it rather amusing that when Huntford talks about Amundsen acting in what seems to me to be a fairly similar way at the end of his life, it comes across as noble. I'm thinking this is clearly not the most balanced of accounts, but it's certainly entertaining! Highly recommended."
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