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Título: La ultima gran aventura: El sacrificio del Capitan Scott en la Antartida
Autor: Max Jones
Edita: Oberon, 2005
Número de páginas: 416 p.
ISBN: 8496052508
La última expedición de Scott a la Antártida es una de las grandes historias de aventuras del siglo XX. El 1 de noviembre de 1911, una expedición británica inició el penoso viaje de casi 1.300 kilómetros a través del más frío y alto continente de la tierra hacia el Polo Sur. Cinco hombres sufrieron y superaron unas condiciones increíblemente duras y todo para encontrarse con que los noruegos habían plantado ya su bandera en el polo apenas unas semanas antes.
El capitán Robert Falcon Scott, el teniente Henry Bowers, el suboficial de marina Edgar Evans, el capitán Lawrence Oates y el doctor Edward Wilson murieron en el viaje de regreso, de hambre y congelación, a sólo unos 18 kilómetros de un depósito de provisiones. En noviembre de 1912, un equipo de rescate descubrió sus últimas cartas y sus diarios, que relataban una historia de valentía, sufrimiento y sacrificio que conmocionó al mundo.
En las últimas décadas ha continuado la encarnizada controversia acerca de si Scott fue el último de una serie de grandes exploradores de la época victoriana decididos a descubrir tierras desconocidas o, por el contrario, un inepto cegado por su ambición personal. Dejando los clichés a un lado, Max Jones nos muestra un personaje complejo, producto de las pasiones y obsesiones de una época imperial. También nos muestra, mediante un análisis detallado, el estallido de dolor sin precedentes del pueblo ante la noticia de la muerte de Scott y de sus compañeros.
Max Jones utiliza nuevas y fascinantes pruebas e ilustraciones inéditas hasta ahora, para llevarnos de vuelta hasta ese extraordinario momento de la historia moderna y para contar, por primera vez, la historia completa de La última gran aventura.
Ficha Técnica
Título: Diario del Polo Sur: el último viaje del capitán Scott
Autor: Robert Falcon Scott (autor), Ángel Sanz (redactor)
Edita: Interfolio, 2011
Número de páginas: 208 p.
ISBN: 8493769495
Conmovedor diario del relato de la dura expedición fallida de R.F.Scott al Polo Sur. 100 años después en sus notas podemos leer las circunstancias que les llevó al fracaso. Héroe para algunos, incompetente para otros.
«Estas frustradas notas, y nuestros cadáveres, contarán nuestra historia» …la auténtica historia, la trágica anatomía de una derrota. Prototipo de heroísmo, nobleza y perseverancia para unos, modelo de ambición, ineptitud e incompetencia para otros, el capitán de la marina Real Británica, Robert Falcon Scott, sigue siendo motivo de admiración a causa de las circunstancias que rodearon su muerte y la de sus cuatro compañeros.
Este diario, sin duda, arroja algo de luz sobre este tema y, una lectura atenta e imparcial de sus notas, resuelve definitivamente el debate abierto hace cien años sobre los errores humanos y de organización de esta expedición. Completando esta lectura con la de Polo Sur, de Roald Amundsen, no sería de extrañar que hasta los más obstinados partidarios o detractores de ambos, cambiaran sus opiniones.
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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: 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.
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Título: The Coldest March: Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition
Autor: Susan Solomon
Edita: Yale University Press, 2002
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Número de páginas: 416 p.
ISBN: 0300099215
The icy deaths of Robert Falcon Scott and his companions on their return from the South Pole in 1912 made them English icons of courage and sacrifice. Soon, however, Scott’s judgments and decisions were questioned, and his reputation became one of inept bungler rather than heroic pioneer. Susan Solomon, senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Colorado, approaches Scott’s story from a meteorologist’s point of view. She shows that the three weeks from February 27 to March 19, during which the explorers fell further and further behind the daily distances they had to cover in order to survive, were far colder than normal. Unusual blizzards of wet snow had already slowed the party and depleted their provisions and strength. Without these once-in-a-decade phenomena, Solomon believes the party would have returned to its base on the Ross Sea–second after Roald Amundsen in the race to the Pole, but safely. She opens each chapter with comments from a hypothetical modern visitor to Antarctica, presumably to give a wider context to the human drama of the last century, though this reviewer finds them inappropriate. She enriches her narratives of Scott’s two Antarctic expeditions with vintage photographs and tables of meteorological data that highlight the explorers’ achievements. Their determination was pitted against the worst weather in the world. Scott’s story has been told many times before, but its weather information makes The Coldest March a useful addition to the literature.
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