The longest winter [electronic resource] : Scott's other heroes / by Meredith Hooper.
Hooper, Meredith.
2011
G850 1910 .H66 2011eb
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Title The longest winter [electronic resource] : Scott's other heroes / by Meredith Hooper.
Author Hooper, Meredith.
ISBN 9781582438382 (electronic bk.)
9781582437620
Publication Details Berkeley : Counterpoint, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxv, 358 p.) : ill., maps.
Call Number G850 1910 .H66 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 919.89
Summary Presents the story of Captain Robert Scott's Eastern Party, renamed the Northern Party in official documents, and their incredible survival of an Antarctic winter.
"Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance, which has often been overshadowed by the tragedy that befell Scott. Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished, and the ship had failed to pick up the members of Scott's Northern Party as planned. Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter. Stranded and desperate, Lieutenant Victor Campbell and his five companions faced disaster. They burrowed inside a snowdrift, digging an ice cave with no room to stand upright, but space for six sleeping bags on the floor -- the three officers on one side, the three seamen on the other. Circumstances forced them closer together, their roles blurred, and a shared sense of reality emerged. This mutual suffering made them indivisible and somehow they made it through the longest winter. To the south, the men waiting at headquarters knew that Scott and his Polar party must be dead and hoped that another six lives would not be added to the death toll. Working from diaries, journals, and letters written by expedition members, Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story of Scott's other expedition." -- back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
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Introduction
It must be an Englishman
Leaving London : 1 June-30 September 1910
The home run : 1 October-31 December 1910
The little village at our cape : 1-28 January 1911
In search of our home : 29 January-9 Februrary 1911
Coal will decide : 12-20 Februrary 1911
The unknown coast : 20 Februrary-10 April 1911
Living at Cape Adare : 10 April-21 July 1911
The uncertainty of the ice : 27 July-16 August 1911
The damnedst luck : 21 August-20 October 1911
Penguin summer : 21 October 1911-1 January 1912
At last science! : 3 January-17 Februrary 1912
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick : 18 Februrary-7 March 1912
Marooned : 10 March-1 April 1912
Icy isolation : 1 April-31 May 1912
Igloo winter : 1 June-31 July 1912
Dismal misery : 1 August 30 September 1912
Drygalski past : 1-27 October 1912
Saving themselves : 28 October-7 November 1912
Homewards : 8 November 1912-26 January 1913.

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