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SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN
by Huntford, Roland
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0340195657
- ISBN 13
- 9780340195659
- Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1979. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition; 665 pages, 16 plates [108 photographs and illustrations], 13 maps, complete with notes, sources & index. Original covers in pictorial price clipped dust jacket designed by Melvyn Gill. Dust jacket has been stuck onto covers, small previous owners name on front end paper. The 1st edition was withdrawn, due to assertions & claims made & later reprinted. Expertly researched and full of material drawn from contemporary sources Huntford's book is an excellent choice if you are looking for a single history of the famous race between British Capt. Robert F. Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen. For Amundsen the race would be a world-renown triumph, for Scott a failure that would cost him his life. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0340195657. ISBN/EAN: 9780340195659. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1283. . 9780340195659 This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Polar Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1283
- Title
- SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN
- Author
- Huntford, Roland
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0340195657
- ISBN 13
- 9780340195659
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- BZDB349 south pole, race, expedition. Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Unbranded ISBN: 0340195657 EAN: 9780340195659 Huntford, Roland SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration;
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