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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Falcon Scott, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, R. F. Scott
• Con la collaborazione di: Ranulph Fiennes (Introduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 12.01.2012
• Categoria: Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio
• EAN: 9780099561385
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956138-5
• Numero di pagine: 560
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 3.5 cm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Categorie: National Geographic Magazine, Adventure, Explorer, Nature, Journey, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Environment, Antarctica, Health, natural history, Journalism, Robert Falcon Scott, Biography and non-fiction prose, Non Fiction, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, travel non-fiction, science non-fiction anthology, travel adventure, world atlas 2020, world atlas 2021, world atlas 2023, world atlas 2022, cyclopedia exotica