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Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 41
Physical Desc
xxxii, 588 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In this brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford reexamines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who died along the way with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain's...
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