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(More customer reviews)Just got the book on publication date (4th May, 2010). I coudn't wait to get my eyes on it, being a student of Antarctic's Heroic era.
I was not dissapointed. Great, powerful work. There are many priceless pictures, never before printed or published for the general public. One set of photographs shows the Scott polar party at the south pole. No words can describe the horror of those photographs. Scott appears more defeated and beat than on the classic South Pole shot where Birdie Bower pulled the string.
Two pictures are particularly disturbing. One shows Uncle Bill Wilson in a very odd manner, surely he is not doing what he appears to be doing. Another shows Titus Oates in the process of dissapearing...Another pictures the same Oates, sitting on the cold snow, utterly defeated, beat, lost, suffering beyond imagining and hopeless.
One other picture shows Amundsen, Shackelton and Robert Peary in New-York, posing for posterity around a globe.
Two IMMORTALS GIANTS and a brutal, immoral and remorseless faker.
For the pictures alone, this book is pure gold.
That book is an absolute must for everybody interested in Antarctica exploration.
A treasure.
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