Scott of the Antarctic – Elspeth Josceline Huxley Flitsaanbieding

After Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909, polar explorers looked toward the South. Robert Falcon Scott, whose 1901–1904 expedition into Antarctica’s frozen shoulder had made him a celebrity in England, began plans to return. In June1910 the Terra Nova sailed toward the earth’s underbelly.
When Scott’s party reached the South Pole on January 17,1912, after severe hardships, they discovered that the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beat them to it a month before. Demoralized, froz…