Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy

Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
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Title: Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy
Author(s): BRENT, Peter
ISBN: 0841502587
Category: Exploration & Adventure
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Hardcover
Published: 1974
Published By: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 223
Size (mm): 185 w x 250 h x 25 d

Condition

Excellent original condition, light wear and fading on dust jacket, pages clean and unmarked. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 - 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901-04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold. Before his appointment to lead the Discovery Expedition, Scott had followed the conventional career of a naval officer in peacetime Victorian Britain, where opportunities for career advancement were both limited and keenly sought after by ambitious officers. It was the chance for personal distinction that led Scott to apply for the Discovery command, rather than any predilection for polar exploration. However, having taken this step, his name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic, the field of work to which he remained committed during the final twelve years of his life. Following the news of his death, Scott became an iconic British hero, a status maintained for more than 50 years and reflected by the many permanent memorials erected across the nation. In the closing decades of the 20th century, the legend was reassessed as attention focused on the causes of the disaster that ended his and his comrades' lives, and the extent of Scott's personal culpability. From a previously unassailable position, Scott became a figure of controversy, with questions raised about his competence and character. Commentators in the 21st century have on the whole regarded Scott more positively, emphasising his personal bravery and stoicism while acknowledging his errors, but ascribing his expedition's fate primarily to misfortune.

Illustrated with b&w images, decorated end papers.

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