A First Rate Tragedy

By Diana Preston

Subjects: British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913), British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) fast (OCoLC)fst01405225, British Antarctic (""Terra Nova"") Expedition (1910-1913), Ontdekkingsreizen, Discoveries in geography, Journeys, Discovery and exploration, South pole, British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904), Antarctica, discovery and exploration, British antarctic ("terra nova") expedition (1910-1913), Travel, British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913) fast (OCoLC)fst01405157, Scott, robert falcon, 1868-1912

Description: On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just eleven miles from the depot of supplies that might have saved them. The remaining two members of the party were nowhere in sight, but Scott's eloquent diary revealed their nightmarishly similar fate. It is a story that continues to haunt the popular imagination, and which has never been told more grippingly or with greater compassion than in this book.