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The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781619020139)
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xThrough the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance, which has often been overshadowed by the tragedy that befell Scott.
Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished, and the ship had failed to pick up the members of Scott's Northern Party as planned. Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter. Stranded and desperate, Lieutenant Victor Campbell and his five companions faced disaster. They burrowed inside a snowdrift, digging an ice cave with no room to stand upright, but space for six sleeping bags on the floor--the three officers on one side, the three seamen on the other. Circumstances forced them closer together, their roles blurred, and a shared sense of reality emerged. This mutual suffering made them indivisible and somehow they made it through the longest winter.
To the south, the men waiting at headquarters knew that Scott and his Polar party must be dead and hoped that another six lives would not be added to the death toll. Working from diaries, journals, and letters written by expedition members, Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story of Scott's other expedition.
Author: Meredith Hooper
ISBN-10: 1619020130
ISBN-13: 9781619020139
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2012
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d
Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished, and the ship had failed to pick up the members of Scott's Northern Party as planned. Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter. Stranded and desperate, Lieutenant Victor Campbell and his five companions faced disaster. They burrowed inside a snowdrift, digging an ice cave with no room to stand upright, but space for six sleeping bags on the floor--the three officers on one side, the three seamen on the other. Circumstances forced them closer together, their roles blurred, and a shared sense of reality emerged. This mutual suffering made them indivisible and somehow they made it through the longest winter.
To the south, the men waiting at headquarters knew that Scott and his Polar party must be dead and hoped that another six lives would not be added to the death toll. Working from diaries, journals, and letters written by expedition members, Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story of Scott's other expedition.
Author: Meredith Hooper
ISBN-10: 1619020130
ISBN-13: 9781619020139
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2012
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d
By Meredith Hooper
xMeredith Hooper received her post-graduate degree at Oxford. She is a writer, lecturer, and expert on Antarctica as well as the acclaimed author of numerous books, including The Ferocious Summer, which won the Nettie Palmer Award for Nonfiction. She has traveled and worked extensively in Antarctica and is the recipient of the Antarctica Service Medal. She lives in London.
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