The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration) Monday, August 3 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration) Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Roland Huntford: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• On the morning of November 1st, 1911, a little cavalcade left Cape Evans in the Antarctic, straggled over the sea ice and faded into the lonely wastes ahead.