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Scott of the Antarctic
Every English schoolboy is taught the story of Captain Scott's failed enterprise in the Antarctic. How he and a small confederate of companions discharge almost two years battling against weird odds to reach the South Pole, solitary to find that they'd been beaten to it, and their contest Amundsen had already planted a Norwegian flag there. And how they fought to get back after such hateful defeat, fighting a losing battle against the let one's hair down and the onset of winter, the last of them long run perishing a stone's throw away from the depot of sustenance that would have saved their lives. Scott's appointment book account is presented as the epitome of gentlemanly heroism: quiet reserve and keeping a dogged upper lip in the most outlandish of circumstances. It was the id...
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