Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen

by Roland Huntford

Book Overview

In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on.

For the first time Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the heart of the story, Huntford weaves the narrative from the protagonists' accounts of their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441126678
• ISBN13: 9781441126672
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"