 | Safe Return Doubtful: Heroic Age of Polar Exploration by John Maxtone-Graham
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £4.92 brilliant introduction, romantic, poignant...the one that got me started
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 | Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals of Captain R.F.Scott by R.F. Scott
Buy used from: £8.08 tragic stuff. read this before you read Huntford's account (#5 on this list)
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 | Farthest North: The Incredible Expedition to the Frozen Latitudes of the North by Fridtjof Nansen
Buy used from: £12.50 what a hero!..loony, genius, turn of the century viking diplomat exploring norwegian.
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 | The Heart of the Antarctic by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Buy used from: £0.01 shackleton nearly made it...he got a knighthood for this expedition. and deserved it
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 | Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £2.25 very anti Scott, but the best book on the race to the pole
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 | The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £4.49 would you drag 200lb for 120 miles in total darkness at -50C for 6 weeks for a penguin egg? This isn't just a report...it is beautifully written and if you only read one of these; make it this one.
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 | South: The "Endurance" Expedition: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £2.90 what happened in 1914-15 in the weddell sea, without the slightest hint of Kenny Branagh
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 | Shackletons Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy by Lennard Bickel
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £6.18 the other half of the above expedition; poorly written, but a superb story...and an excellent reason to keep your vitamin C levels up
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 | The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antartctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-12 by Roald Amundsen
Buy used from: £8.50 drily witty, a good translation: compare this with no.2 on this list to see what scott could have done. yet another mad Norwegian!
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 | Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler
Buy new: £6.84 / Used from: £0.01 find out about the author of no. 6 on this list
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 | Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Buy new: £6.15 / Used from: £0.01 someone who knows what he's about debunks anti-Scott myths....read this in conjunction with #5 on this list
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 | Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antartic Survival: A True Story of Antarctic Survival by Sir Douglas Mawson
Buy used from: £10.49 this time a mad Aussie....what were these Edwardians made of? How he made it back eating dog's livers beats me.
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 | The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by S Solomon
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £3.60 Aha! So Huntford is full of sh*t (see #5)...Puts Scott's return march into context. The weather seems to have killed them, not incompetence
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 | Hell with a Capital H - an Epic Story of Antarctic Survival by Katherine Lambert
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £0.40 all of the above keep making reference to campbell's party on scott's last expedition. find out what happened to them in this
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