Starting with the Arctic and Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition and the long search for it, Scott tells the great stories of polar travel: the Polaris, the Alert and Discovery, the starving Greely party, Peary in Greenland, the Italian Stella Polare nipped in the ice, and on to Antarctica and Scott’s Discovery.
A stirring popular history of polar adventure, written as the race for the poles neared its climax. Download the free EPUB.