Full name: A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole

Author: Diana Preston Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Adventure, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618002016 0618002014

On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just eleven miles from the depot of supplies that might have saved them. The remaining two members of the party were nowhere in sight, but Scott's eloquent diary revealed their nightmarishly similar fate. It is a story that continues to haunt the popular imagination, and which has never been told more grippingly or with greater compassion than in this book. Similar books: The Endurance by Caroline Alexander Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition by Beau Riffenburgh Endurance by Alfred Lansing Endurance by F. A. Worsley Below the Convergence by Alan Gurney This Accursed Land by Lennard Bickel The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Worsley Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen Shackleton's Forgotten Men by Lennard Bickel Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Columbus by Laurence Bergreen Into Africa by Martin Dugard The River of Doubt by Candice Millard Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming The Lost City of Z by David Grann