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This is the definitive biography of Captain Scott – the pivotal figure in pre-First World War Antarctic exploration. Crane’s beautifully written and illustrated book re-examines the courage and tragedy of Scott’s expedition and reasserts his position in the pantheon of British heroes.
David Crane’s remarkable book sets out to discover the real Captain Scott, and rejects the common orthodoxies that surround his name to grapple with the personality behind the legend. In doing so, Crane is able to reach the most moving aspects of Scott’s life: the moral courage and basic decency exhibited in a life lived on the crumbling fringes of gentility at the turn of the century.
Crane’s biography of Scott will rescue a maligned figure and restore him to his proper place in history.
By reassessing Scott’s life and his huge scientific achievements, Crane is able to provide a fresh and exciting perspective on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The heroism and tragedy of Scott’s last journey are only one part of the process, for the scientific enquiry that led up to it transformed the whole nature and ambition of Antarctic exploration.
With the full access to family papers, and the voluminous diaries and records of key participants, including admiring scientists, this is a fabulous book that sets out to reconcile the very private struggles of the man with the very public life of extremes that he led.
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David Crane's first book, ‘Lord Byron’s Jackal’ was published to great acclaim in 1998, and his second, ‘The Kindness of Sisters’ published in 2002, is a groundbreaking work of romantic biography. His next book: a collection of 19th Century naval biographies with the working title of 'Men of War' is published by Harper Collins in 2009. He lives in north-west Scotland.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0007219652
- ISBN 13 9780007219650
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Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage, Leadership and Tragedy in the Extreme South
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Some wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Previous owner has signed inside page. Binding and interior are very good. 'It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.For God's sake look after our people.' These were the final words written in Scott's diary on 29 March 1912, as he lay dying of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold, in his tent on his return journey from the South Pole. Since then he has been the subject of many books. Yet in all the pages that have been written about him, the personality behind the legend has been forgotten or distorted beyond all recognition. David Crane's magisterial biography redresses this completely. By reassessing Scott's life and his substantial scientific achievements, Crane is able to provide a fresh and exciting perspective on both the Discovery expedition of 1901-4 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-12. The courage and tragedy of Scott's last journey are only one part of the process, for the scientific enquiry that led up to it transformed the whole nature and ambition of Antarctic exploration. Written with the full support of Scott's surviving relatives, and with access to the voluminous diaries and records of key participants, this definitive biography sets out to reconcile the very private struggles of the man with the very public life of extremes that he led. (publisher blurb). Seller Inventory # 003512
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