Scott of the Antarctic: We Shall Die Like Gentlemen

by Sue Blackhall

Book Overview

Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 - 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848846649
• ISBN13: 9781848846647
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"