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Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new undertake Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to put the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his United kingdom competitors Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a more substantial scientific, public, and geopolitical context. Efficient, well prepared, and focused entirely on the goal of getting to his vacation spot and back again, Amundsen has attained his place in history as the first ever to reach the South Pole. Scott, in the meantime, has been reduced in the public brain 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 first 20th hundred years by looking at the United kingdom initiatives for what they actually were: substantial scientific enterprises in which reaching the South Pole was but a spectacular sideshow. By concentrating on the larger purpose, Edward Larson deepens our appreciation of the explorers' achievements, shares little-known stories, and shows the actual Heroic Get older of Antarctic discovery was really about.
