New York : Putnam, 1980. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 665 pages; Description: xx, 665 p. , [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912. Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928. Explorers--Great Britain--Biography. Norway - South Pole. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [609]-635.

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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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Bookseller: MW Books Ltd. (IE)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 84435
Title: Scott and Amundsen
Author: Huntford, Roland (1927-?)
Format/Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: Used
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Edition: 1st U.S. Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0399119604
ISBN 13: 9780399119606
Publisher: New York : Putnam
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1980

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