Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 428 g
Captain Scott's Antartctic Sacrifice
Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 428 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-280570-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans,
Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek, starved and frozen to death, 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 Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated, through a close examination of the unprecedented outpouring of public grief at the news of the death of Scott
and his companions.
Max Jones uses fascinating new evidence and prevously unseen illustrations to take us back to this remarkable moment in modern history, and tells for the first time the full story of The Last Great Quest.
Zielgruppe
The general reader interested in the exploration of the Antarctic, in early twentieth-century British history, and in adventure and the nature of heroism.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographische Entdeckungen und Erkundung
