Scott's Last Expedition

Name: Scott's Last Expedition
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Robert Falcon Scott
ISBN: 9781455101702

Author: Robert Falcon Scott

Narrator: William Sutherland

Unabridged: 18 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

In November 1910, a team of explorers left New Zealand led by Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman determined to be the first man to reach the South Pole. This is Scotts detailed memoir of his journeyup until March 29, 1912, when he and the few remaining members of his team died in a brutal blizzard. The daily progress of the expedition is recorded in an immensely vivid and personal narrative.

About Robert Falcon Scott

Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868–29 March 1912) was a British Royal Naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five to the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian party in an unsought “race for the Pole”. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished because of a combination of exhaustion, hunger, and extreme cold.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on March 29, 2012

(March 17 2012) Last year I read one of the most incredible books of my life - The Worst Journey in the World (WJITW), an account by one of the surviving members of Scott's last expedition. Hardly a day has gone by since that I haven't thought about that expedition or those on it and so, with the hu......more

Goodreads review by Heather on March 04, 2012

Note to self: if you ever go to the Antarctic and find that the Norwegians have beat you to the South Pole, don't worry about carrying thirty-five pounds of fossils back. Don't worry about it. Worry about not having packed enough food.......more

Goodreads review by Yasmin on September 16, 2014

Last year, on my fortieth, my partner and I took a trip to Northumberland. On our return to London we whiled away several hours in a magical antique book store in Alnwick called Barter Books. I got absolutely lost in literary jewels and once I’d swamped myself behind a book tower and saw a disapprov......more

Goodreads review by Richard on March 18, 2013

Interesting to read. When Scott made his expedition the study of Radiology was new breaking open physics. Meteorology was much less well known and understood. Continental drift was mostly unheard of. They did not even know the cause and treatment for Scurvy. No GPS, no satellite weather, no radio, et......more