In 600 wonderfully researched pages ... Huntford has at last
written the 3-dimensional book this immense drama deserves
SPECTATOR Gripping ...enthralling ...Handles a great mass of
material with exceptional intelligence and skill SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A
brilliant achievement, as readable as an adventure story, as fact
filled as an explorer''s manual, as compelling as history always is
when brought to life TORONTO STAR ''One of the great debunking
biographies'' NEW YORK TIMES On December 14, 1911,
內容簡介：
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was
the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of
exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning
writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race
to the South Pole between Britain''s Robert Scott and Norway''s Roald
Amundsen. Scott, who dies along with four of his men only eleven
miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain''s beloved
failure, while Amundsen, who not only beat Scott to the Pole but
returned alive, was largely forgotten. This account of their race
is a gripping, highly readable history that captures the driving
ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who
were charged with carrying them out. THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is the
first of Huntford''s masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is
also the only work on the subject in the English language based on
the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to
revise and update this edition.
關於作者：
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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