A review by schopflin
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated by Roland Huntford

4.0

This is an impressive work, probably 4.5. Absolutely spell-binding in its depiction of the polar journeys and intriguing in its characterisation. It's written with force, almost anger, that is probably a feature of the fact that it was the first to expose the myth of Scott's heroic failure. That's not always fun to read. But, mainly, I'm not giving 5 stars to anyone who unironically refers to "a known Lesbian" and uses an archaic and offensive term like "Eskimo" because 'it's what they would have said at the time'.