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Scott's last biscuit : the literature of polar travel

Paperback • 2006 • English

Scott's last biscuit : the literature of polar travel

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Arctic and Antarctic travel writing has seized the popular imagination for the last three hundred years. Emphasizing themes of endurance, danger and self-sacrifice, tales from the poles are testimony both to human curiosity and to the often fatal attraction of alien landscapes. Figures such as Ernest Shackleton, Captain Oates and Roald Amundsen have become iconic figures in the history of exploration. Yet polar exploration has also spawned a literature with its own history and development. This ...Show more

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9781902669878

Publisher

Oxford : Signal Books

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Scott's last biscuit : the literature of polar travel

Format

Paperback

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