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The Last Place on Earth

The Last Place on Earth

Biography & MemoirHistory
Pages
640
Published
1999
Language
English

Synopsis

This book revisits the dramatic race to the South Pole at the dawn of the 20th century, pitting Britain's Robert Scott against Norway's Roald Amundsen. It explores the intense nationalistic fervor of the era and the complex personalities of the explorers. While Scott's tragic end made him a national hero, Amundsen's success was largely overlooked, a story of ambition, endurance, and the harsh realities of polar exploration.

Prose complexity
7/10

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Genres

Biography & Memoir History Nature Travel Biography

About the author

R
Roland Huntford

Roland Huntford (born 1927) is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. He lives in Cambridge, and was formerly Scandinavian correspondent of The Observer, also acting as their winter sports correspondent. He was the 1986–1987 Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College. He has written biographies of Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Nobel Peace Prize winner Fridtjof Nansen; these biographies have been the subject of controversy. Huntford's controversial The Last P...