Blizzard. Race To The Pole

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: BBC Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 288 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: At the beginning of the last century, reaching the South Pole was the greatest terrestrial journey left to man. By the spring of 1912, the race was over—Robert Falcon Scott was dead and Roald Amundsen, the victor, was on his way home. Ever since, a debate has raged over whether Scott was an arrogant incompetent or whether he was the victim of bad luck. This book attempts to answer the question by re-running the race. Two teams, among the world’s greatest adventurers, will be equipped entirely in the style of the original expeditions. The difference will be that both teams will start at the same time and from points within ten kilometers of each other. Now, for the first time, it will be possible to see whether it was luck or judgment that led Amundsen to victory and Scott to his death.

ISBN: 9780563493266