A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole

A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole by Preston, Diana. paperback edition. ISBN: 0046442002011.

On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarcticas Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scotts frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just eleven miles from the depot of supplies that might have saved them. The remaining two members of the party were nowhere in sight, but Scotts eloquent diary revealed their nightmarishly similar fate. It is a story that continues to haunt the popular imagination, and which has never been told more grippingly or with greater compassion than in this book.