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 Death on the Ice - Robert Ryan
Newest Review: ... fought against so strongly. Author Robert Ryan now steps in to present his account of events based on some very detailed ... more  ... research into the expedition and its participants.
Before reading this novel, my prior knowledge of this part of history rested largely with two television series that had taken Scott's race to the pole against Roald Amundsen (as we now remember this expedition) as their inspiration. In 2006, the race was recreated by the BBC - with Bruce Parry taking the place of Scott and Rune Gjeldnes standing in for Amundsen - as part of a historical experiment to understand just why the Norwegian explorer reached the pole so much mor...more |
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Death on the Ice - Robert Ryan: "I am just going outside and may be some time..." (1574 words)
by - written on 01/11/09 (Very useful, 101 readings)
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"Death on the Ice" by Robert Ryan (2009) Headline Review 560pp RRP £6.99, Amazon.co.uk £4.99 In 1917, as the First World War raged across Europe, artist Kathleen Scott was busy fighting her own battles for the memory of her late husband, Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Following the tragic events of the Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, one-time popular hero Scott is widely treated as a man of poor judgement and foresight, who lost the pole to Norway, and who brought disaster on those depending on him, and Kathleen seeks desperately to publish a new book that will re-establish him as a great man. In this vision she partially ... Read the complete review
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