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The Last Great Quest
Captain Scott's Antartctic Sacrifice
Taschenbuch von Max Jones
Sprache: Englisch

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The story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek from the South Pole, starved and frozen, only eleven miles from a supply camp. In November 1912, a rescue party discovered their last letters and diaries, which told a story of bravery, hardship, andself-sacrifice that shocked the world. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated, through a close examination of the unprecedented outpouring of public grief at the news of the death ofScott.
The story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek from the South Pole, starved and frozen, only eleven miles from a supply camp. In November 1912, a rescue party discovered their last letters and diaries, which told a story of bravery, hardship, andself-sacrifice that shocked the world. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated, through a close examination of the unprecedented outpouring of public grief at the news of the death ofScott.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • List of Plates

  • List of figures

  • Abbreviations

  • 1: Measuring the World

  • 2: The Race to the South Pole

  • 3: Disaster in the Antarctic

  • 4: Remembering the Dead

  • 5: 'Martyrs of Science'

  • 6: 'For the Honour of our Country'

  • 7: 'These Were Men'

  • 8: 'So Many Heroes'

  • Epilogue

  • Appendix

  • Notes

  • Further Reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780192805706
ISBN-10: 0192805703
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jones, Max
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Max Jones
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2004
Gewicht: 0,428 kg
Artikel-ID: 107546184
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • List of Plates

  • List of figures

  • Abbreviations

  • 1: Measuring the World

  • 2: The Race to the South Pole

  • 3: Disaster in the Antarctic

  • 4: Remembering the Dead

  • 5: 'Martyrs of Science'

  • 6: 'For the Honour of our Country'

  • 7: 'These Were Men'

  • 8: 'So Many Heroes'

  • Epilogue

  • Appendix

  • Notes

  • Further Reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780192805706
ISBN-10: 0192805703
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jones, Max
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Max Jones
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2004
Gewicht: 0,428 kg
Artikel-ID: 107546184
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