BLIZZARD - RACE TO THE POLE.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour+
monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with gold colour,and black+blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges generally bright and clean - a tiny,faint smudge to top edges; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, paper-covered boards with dw/dj photographic design repeated and reproduced to boards and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-288pp [paginated], includes a foreword by Sir Ranulph Fiennes,The Modern Race,Scott/Amundsen timeline,an introduction,14 chapters,16pp contemporary sepia+colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp128/9 and pp160/1 respectively, acknowledgements,picture credits and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table.
In late 1911,the final year of the Edwardian age,a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run.
Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole,but also to live to tell the tale.Six months later,Robert Falcon Scott and four of his party were dead,while Roald Amundsen's victory had been wired around the world.
A century on,the debate still rages.Was Scott unfortunate or incompetent? Was Amundsen a genius or lucky? In a unique television experiment,two teams led by the Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes and the televsion anthropologist Bruce Parry,star of the BBC2 series 'Tribe',set out to recreate the famous race. Wearing the same type of clothing as their predecessors,
surviving on the same diet,using the same equipment and travelling over the same distance,they seek to answer some of these burning questions.
'Blizzard' is a dramatic chronicle of both the original epic,and its reconstruction.Jasper Rees's narrative skilfully intertwines past and present as he brings to life an extraordinary cast of
characters.They may be separated from their predecessors by nearly a hundred years,but the modern race teams soon
discover that,in polar travel,nothing changes.Among the hardships they face are uncontrollable dogs,inedible food,
invisible crevasses and unimaginable cold,all in an unending prairie of snow.
Incorporating the gripping diaries of Parry and Gjeldnes, 'Blizzard' paints an astonishing picture of comradeship in the face of physical danger and psychological torment in the most life-threatening habitat on earth.
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