A FIRST RATE TRAGEDY, Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
by Diana Preston
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, and barcode. GOOD book in GOOD uncli
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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Synopsis
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just eleven miles from the depot of supplies that might have saved them. The remaining two members of the party were nowhere in sight, but Scott's eloquent diary revealed their nightmarishly similar fate. It is a story that continues to haunt the popular imagination, and which has never been told more grippingly or with greater compassion than in this book.
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- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 44381
- Title
- A FIRST RATE TRAGEDY, Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
- Author
- Diana Preston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, and barcode. GOOD book in GOOD uncli
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 270 pages
- Keywords
- self-sacrifice gallantry exploration Cape Evans Captain Oates South Pole Antarcticia Robert Falcon Scott Roald Amundsen
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