Scott's last biscuit: the literature of polar exploration by Sarah Moss

Scott's last biscuit: the literature of polar exploration

Sarah Moss

251 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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Emphasizing themes of endurance and obsession, tales from the poles are testimony to scientific dedication, ambition, greed and the often fatal attraction of alien landscapes. Some explorers (Ernest Shackleton, Captain Oates and Roald Amundsen) ha...

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