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Pilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott's First Antarctic Expedition - Softcover

Baughman, T. H.

 
9780803216396: Pilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott's First Antarctic Expedition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803216394 ISBN 13: 9780803216396
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Robert Falcon Scott&;s 1901&;4 expedition to the Antarctic was a landmark event in the history of Antarctic exploration, creating a sensation comparable to the Arctic efforts of the American Robert E. Peary. Scott&;s initial expedition was also the first step toward the dramatic race to the South Pole in 1912, which resulted in the tragic deaths of Scott and his companions. Since then Scott&;s reputation has vacillated between two extremes: Was he a martyred hero, the beau ideal of a brave and selfless explorer, or a bumbling fool whose mistakes killed him and his entire party?
 
Pilgrims on the Ice goes beyond the personality of Scott to remove the first expedition from the shadow of the second, to study objectively its purpose, its composition, and its real accomplishments. This Bison Books edition includes a new preface by the author.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

T. H. Baughman is chair of the History Department at Benedictine College. He is the author of Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s (Nebraska 1993).

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Robert Falcon Scott's 1901-4 expedition to the Antarctic was a landmark event in the history of Antarctic exploration and created a sensation comparable to the Arctic efforts of the American Robert E. Peary. Scott's initial expedition was also the first step toward the dramatic race to the South Pole in 1912 that resulted in the tragic deaths of Scott and his companions. Since then Scott's reputation has vacillated between two extremes: Was he a martyred hero, the beau ideal of a brave and selfless explorer, or a bumbling fool whose mistakes killed him and his entire party? In this work, Antarctic historian T. H. Baughman goes beyond the personality of Scott to remove the first expedition from the shadow of the second, to study objectively its purpose, its composition, and its real accomplishments.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803216394
ISBN 13 
9780803216396
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
360
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