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Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest

Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest

by Ranulph Fiennes

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Polar explorer Fiennes puts Scott back up his pedestal in this new hagiography. Fiennes (who claims to have been the first man to reach both poles) brings to the task the grit of his own trials and tribulations in both the Antarctic and Antarctic.  (ANT220, $14.95)

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