Into the white : Scott's Antarctic Odyssey

Grochowicz, Joanna2017

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'Great God, this is an awful place.' Robert Falcon Scott's famous words uttered on the polar plateau don't paint Antarctica in the best possible light. In fact things were about to get a whole lot worse for Scott and the four men who accompanied him to the South Pole. But this is no dismal tragedy. The true story of Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition is pure adventure with all the elements of a great epic, storms at sea, impenetrable ice pack, man-eating whales, crevasses, blizzards, scientific discoveries, bad food, extreme temperatures, and equal measures of hunger, agony, and snow blindness. With a cast of memorable characters, vicious dogs, and reluctant ponies, Captain Scott plans to be first to reach the South Pole. Will the weather hold? Will the rations be adequate? How will they know when they get there? Who invited the Norwegians? This title is bound to leave you on the edge of your seat, hoping against hope that Scott and his men just might survive their Antarctic ordeal and live to tell the tale.