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Provides an account of the race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott to be the first to conquer the South Pole.
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Roland Huntford is the former Scandinavian correspondent for the OBSERVER. He is the bestselling author of two critically acclaimed biographies of Ernest Shackleton and Fridtjof Nansen as well as the novel THE SEA OF DARKNESS. He lives near Cambridge.
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By: Roland Huntford
599 pages, B/w photos, maps
'In 600 wonderfully researched pages ... Huntford has at last written the three-dimensional book this immense drama deserves' SPECTATOR 'Huntford provides an excellent guide to the extraordinary fin de siecle flurry of interest in conquering these two worldly extremes.' OBSERVER