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The last great quest
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ISBN: 1280752912 9786610752911 0191513059 1429470003 9781429470001 9780191513053 9781280752919 0192804839 9780192805706 0191622338 6610752915 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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The story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek from the South Pole, starved and frozen, only eleven miles from a supply camp. In November 1912, a rescue party discovered their last letters and diaries, which told a story of bravery, hardship, and self-sacrifice that. shocked the world. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victor

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