Captain Scott

Ranulph Fiennes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340826975 ISBN 13: 9780340826973

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003

For the first time Scott's story is told by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through.

Review:

A valuable corrective to the trend of Scott debunking ushered in by Roland Huntford...One by one, and with commendable attention to detail, Fiennes explodes the accumulated myths. The world will remember Scott and, to a lesser extent, Fiennes when the memory of the mean-spirited and misleading Huntford has long since melted away. (Justin Marozzi, Sunday Telegraph)

He is uniquely qualified...because only someone who has "man-hauled" across Antarctica can know what went on. Fiennes's own experiences certainly allow him to write vividly and with empathy of the hell that the men went through. He has valuable insights into the running of the Royal Geographical Society and the mounting of an expedition, and he does indeed right some wrongs. (The Sunday Times)

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has done Captain Scott's memory some service...he has certainly written a more dispassionate and balanced account than Huntford ever set out to do (Simon Courtauld, Spectator)

No-one is better placed than Fiennes to understand what Scott may have experienced or to appreciate the enormity of his achievement. A gripping tale of courage and adventure. (Daily Mail)

Book Description:

The real story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived, by the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'.