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- catalog abstract ""At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In this brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford reexamines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who died along the way 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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Scott and Amundsen".
- catalog contributor b11420007.
- catalog coverage "South Pole.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In this brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford reexamines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who died along the way 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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-569) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxxii, 588 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0375754741 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Modern Library,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Norway".
- catalog spatial "South Pole.".
- catalog subject "919.8/904 21".
- catalog subject "Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928.".
- catalog subject "Explorers Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Explorers Norway Biography.".
- catalog subject "G875.S35 H86 1999".
- catalog subject "Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912.".
- catalog title "Scott and Amundsen".
- catalog title "The last place on earth : Scott and Amundsen's race to the South Pole / Roland Huntford.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".