| #2100570 in Books | Bloomsbury Academic | 2009-06-09 | 2009-06-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.85 x6.14l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 412 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Story of the Changing Legends of Two Antarctic Explorers|By Roger D. Launius|I have been interested in Antarctic exploration for many years and have read a broad range of books. "Antarctic Destinies" is focused not so much on the expeditions themselves as on the memory of the men who led them. The two protagonists in this work by Clemson University history professor Stephanie||"Exciting...As Stephanie Barczewski observes in"Antarctic Destinies," the meaning of the tales — along with theirmoral lessons and cultural appeal — has shifted over the course of a century." —The Wall
This book covers the two most famous expeditions of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-12 and Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition of 1914-16. For decades after his tragic death on the return journey from the South Pole, to which he had been beaten by five weeks by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, Scott was regarded as a saint-like figure with an unassailable reputation born from his heroic martyrdom ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism | Stephanie Barczewski. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
