Author: Michael Smith
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN: 9781862273559
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Oates was the epitome of the Victorian English gentleman - a dashing cavalry officer who won numerous victories at racecourses throughout Ireland. He died on his 32nd birthday in an Antarctica blizzard in 1912.
The White Darkness
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060890355
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060890355
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
I May Be Some Time
Author: Francis Spufford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571346783
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words: 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.' Francis Spufford's celebrated and prize-winning history shows how Scott's death was the culmination of a national enchantment with vast empty spaces, the beauty of untrodden snow, and perilous journeys to the end of the earth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571346783
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words: 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.' Francis Spufford's celebrated and prize-winning history shows how Scott's death was the culmination of a national enchantment with vast empty spaces, the beauty of untrodden snow, and perilous journeys to the end of the earth.
Charge of the Lord Chief Justice of England
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338250779X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338250779X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
I May be Some Time
Author: Francis Spufford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571218653
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This "hauntingly well-written" ("Booklist") work takes readers on a journey to the center of the human imagination, offering a thrilling cultural history of the human obsession with polar exploration--the call of vast empty spaces and the seductive beauty of untrodden snow. of photos.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571218653
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This "hauntingly well-written" ("Booklist") work takes readers on a journey to the center of the human imagination, offering a thrilling cultural history of the human obsession with polar exploration--the call of vast empty spaces and the seductive beauty of untrodden snow. of photos.
The Last Great Quest
Author: Max Jones
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek, starved and frozen to death, only eleven miles from a supply camp. In November 1912, a rescue party discovered their last letters and diaries, which told a story of bravery, hardship, and self-sacrifice that shocked the world. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated, through a close examination of the unprecedented outpouring of public grief at the news of the death of Scott and his companions. Max Jones uses fascinating new evidence and prevously unseen illustrations to take us back to this remarkable moment in modern history, and tells for the first time the full story of The Last Great Quest.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek, starved and frozen to death, only eleven miles from a supply camp. In November 1912, a rescue party discovered their last letters and diaries, which told a story of bravery, hardship, and self-sacrifice that shocked the world. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated, through a close examination of the unprecedented outpouring of public grief at the news of the death of Scott and his companions. Max Jones uses fascinating new evidence and prevously unseen illustrations to take us back to this remarkable moment in modern history, and tells for the first time the full story of The Last Great Quest.