The Last Expedition

Informationen zum Autor Captain R. F. Scott Klappentext Robert Falcon Scott was born in 1868. He became a naval cadet at the age of 13 and he was made a full lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1889. The Royal Geographical Society appointed him to command the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. The expedition set sail on the Discovery and reached further south than anyone before. Scott returned to Britain as a national hero. In 1910 Captain Scott organised a second expedition to sail to the Antarctic on board the Terra Nova . On the 17th January 1912 the party reached the pole, only to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Scott and his companions died on their march back to safety on 29 March 1912.Eight months later, a search party found the tent, the bodies and Scott's journals. The journals were first published in 1913. Zusammenfassung WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR RANULPH FIENNESThe Last Expedition is Captain Scott's gripping account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12.

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• Authors: Captain Robert Falcon Scott, R. F. Scott, Robert Falcon Scott
• Assisted by: Ranulph Fiennes (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.01.2012
• EAN: 9780099561385
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956138-5
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Antarctica, Biography and non-fiction prose, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909