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Klappentext The story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. Captain Robert Falcon Scott! Lieutenant Henry Bowers! Petty Officer Edgar Evans! Captain Lawrence Oates! and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek from the South Pole! starved and frozen! 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! andself-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 ofScott. Zusammenfassung The story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the greatest adventure stories. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He shows how heroes are made and manipulated by looking at the outpouring of grief at the news of the Scott's death. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates List of figures Abbreviations 1: Measuring the World 2: The Race to the South Pole 3: Disaster in the Antarctic 4: Remembering the Dead 5: 'Martyrs of Science' 6: 'For the Honour of our Country' 7: 'These Were Men' 8: 'So Many Heroes' Epilogue Appendix Notes Further Reading Index
