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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

Explorers --- Scott, Robert Falcon, --- Skott, Robert Falʹkon, --- Scott, R. F. --- Antarctica --- Discovery and exploration --- British.

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Plantation owners --- Agriculture --- Owners of plantations --- Planters (Persons) --- Landowners --- Slaveholders --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- History --- Scott, Robert W. --- Scott, Robert Wilmot, --- United States --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel

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Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Discovery & Exploration --- Scott, Robert Falcon, --- Skott, Robert Falʹkon, --- Scott, R. F. --- Discovery (Ship) --- HMS Discovery --- British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) --- Antarctica --- Discovery and exploration. --- Discovery and exploration --- British.

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Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.Efficient, well prepared, and focused solely on the goal of getting to his destination and back, Amundsen has earned his place in history as the first to reach the South Pole. Scott, meanwhile, has been reduced in the public mind to a dashing incompetent who stands for little more than relentless perseverance in the face of inevitable defeat. An Empire of Ice offers a new perspective on the Antarctic expeditions of the early twentieth century by looking at the British efforts for what they actually were: massive scientific enterprises in which reaching the South Pole was but a spectacular sideshow. By focusing on the larger purpose, Edward Larson deepens our appreciation of the explorers' achievements, shares little-known stories, and shows what the Heroic Age of Antarctic discovery was really about.

Scientific expeditions --- Expeditions, Scientific --- Scientific voyages --- Travels --- Voyages, Scientific --- Voyages and travels --- History --- Scott, Robert Falcon, --- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, --- Shackleton, E. H. --- שעקלטאן, ערנעסט, --- Sheḳlṭon, Ernesṭ, --- Skott, Robert Falʹkon, --- Scott, R. F. --- Antarctica --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- British