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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxi, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. December 2011 marks the centenary of the conclusion to the last great race of terrestrial discovery. For the first time Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxvi, 737 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Douglas Mawson was an Australian original, a great polar explorer in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration. This book focuses on Mawson's extraordinary feats in Antarctica, in tandem with the giants of the age, Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (390 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the race to the South Pole in 1911 between rival explorers: the Englishman Scott and the Norwegian Amundsen. In an effort to be the first to plant his country's flag at the South Pole, Scott and Amundsen undertook a 1,500-mile trek across the frozen wastes of Antarctica, facing danger, extreme suffering, and death.
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