A FIRST RATE TRAGEDY Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
by Preston, Diana
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395933498
- ISBN 13
- 9780395933497
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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
- Mary's Used Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2454
- Title
- A FIRST RATE TRAGEDY Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
- Author
- Preston, Diana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395933498
- ISBN 13
- 9780395933497
- Publisher
- Houghton and Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- 0-395-93349-8, South Pole, Robert Scott, Explorations, Explorers
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