内容简介
At the beginning of the
twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the
fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In this brilliant
dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford reexamines
every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's
Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who died along the
way with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of
supplies, became Britain's beloved failure, while Amundsen, who not
only beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, was largely
forgotten. This account of their race is a gripping, highly
readable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and
the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying
them out.
The Last Place on Earth is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.
The Last Place on Earth is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.