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Título: Luces del sur. Informe oficial de la expedición inglesa a la Tierra de Graham (1934-1937)
Autor: John Rymill
Edita: Espasa Calpe Argentina, 1943
Encuadernación: Tapa dura.
Número de páginas: 284 p.
La expedición Británica a la Tierra de Graham (1934-1937), encabezada por John Rymill, zarpó hacia la península Antártica en el barco de vapor Penola. La embarcación transportaba un aeroplano De Havilland Fox Moth equipado con flotadores y esquíes que fue usado para el reconocimiento del hielo y para aprovisionar a los equipos en el terreno. Pasaron el primer invierno en una cabaña prefabricada de la expedición en las islas Argentinas, pero las oportunidades para desplazarse en trineo no eran buenas. Concluido el invierno, el barco regresó a la isla Decepción con el fin de cargar madera para una nueva cabaña que debía construirse para pasar el segundo invierno más al sur, en las islas Debenham y la bahía Margarita. Se recorrieron largas distancias en trineos de perros para trazar mapas y efectuar estudios geológicos, incluyendo una larga travesía a lo largo del canal Jorge VI hasta los 72º S entre el continente de la península y la isla Alejandro I. También se realizaron estudios ornitológicos, biológicos y meteorológicos, pero quizá el resultado más importante fue mostrar que la península era un elemento continuo, no dividido por canales en un archipiélago como Wilkins había sugerido con anterioridad.
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Título: Journals: Captain Scott’s Last Expedition
Autor: Robert Falcon Scott (autor), Max Jones (editor)
Edita: OUP Oxford, 2008
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Número de páginas: 592 p.
ISBN: 0199536805
In January 1912, Britain’s Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had been beaten by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition. Scott and his companions faced an 850-mile march to safety. All perished on the return. A few months later, a search party found Scott’s body and the journals that told his tragic story.
Scott’s own account was published to extraordinary acclaim in 1913. This new edition draws on ninety years of reflection on the Antarctic disaster to illuminate Scott’s journals, publishing for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott’s original text. Drawing on previously unused papers from the John Murray archive, Max Jones tells the story of this remarkable book and charts the changing fortunes of Scott’s reputation. The first fully annotated edition, it also includes appendixes on J. M. Barrie’s Biographical Introduction‘ and The Finding of the Dead, plus a glossary of names and a full index.
The story of Captain Scott and his team is sure to captivate modern readers just as much as it did almost one-hundred years ago.
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Título: An empire of ice: Scott, Shackleton and the heroic age of antarctic Science
Autor: Edward Larson
Edita: Yale University Press, 2013
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Número de páginas: 326 p.
ISBN: 9780300188219
Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, «An Empire of Ice» presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it’s the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context. Efficient, well prepared, and focused solely on the goal of getting to his destination and back, Amundsen has earned his place in history as the first to reach the South Pole. Scott, meanwhile, has been reduced in the public mind to a dashing incompetent who stands for little more than relentless perseverance in the face of inevitable defeat. «An Empire of Ice» offers a new perspective on the Antarctic expeditions of the early twentieth century by looking at the British efforts for what they actually were: massive scientific enterprises in which reaching the South Pole was but a spectacular sideshow. By focusing on the larger purpose, Edward Larson deepens our appreciation of the explorers’ achievements, shares little-known stories, and shows what the Heroic Age of Antarctic discovery was really about.
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Título: Scott of the Antarctic: A biography
Autor: David Crane
Edita: Vintage, 2007
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Número de páginas: 608 p.
ISBN: 1400031419
If ever a man needed saving from the enthusiasm of his admirers,» Crane begins, «it was Scott.» But although this hefty biography strips away much of the legend and mystique surrounding the polar expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott, it’s still infused with hero worship. In addition to his leadership skills, Crane claims Scott was the only polar explorer to possess significant literary talent, and his writings—especially the final message scrawled as he lay dying in the Antarctic wastelands—»extend our sense of what it is to be human.» The twin centerpieces of Scott’s story are, of course, his two expeditions to Antarctica, both of which are recreated here with meticulous detail. Crane understands, however, that Scott’s accomplishments in the polar region were shaped by his earlier experiences in the Royal Navy; thus the narrative is equally strong in recounting how Scott was able to overcome fierce opposition to his leadership of the first trip and how the rivalry with former crewmate Ernest Shackleton spurred the second. «Personality and character went on playing a decisive role in polar exploration long after it had been relegated to the margins of other history,» Crane writes, and for all the dramatic action, it is Scott the man who most captivates the author—and readers.
