The longest winter : Scott's other heroes

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Label

The longest winter : Scott's other heroes

Title remainder

Scott's other heroes

Statement of responsibility

Meredith Hooper

Creator

• Hooper, Meredith

Subject

• Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration | British
• British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910-1913
• Campbell, Victor, 1875-1956 -- Travel -- Antarctica
• Expeditions: popular accounts
• Explorers -- Great Britain
• General & world history
• History of other lands
• Antarctica
• Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912 -- Travel -- Antarctica
• Travel & holiday
• Travel and Tourism
• True stories of heroism, endurance & survival
• USSR, Soviet Union
• c 1900 to c 1909
• Russia

Language

eng

Summary

Scott's Northern Party played an integral role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? 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 which befell Scott.

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 919.8904
• 919.8'9'04
• 919.8904
• 919.8904

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

G874

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

Scott's Northern Party played an integral role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? 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 which befell Scott. Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished and the ship had failed to pick them up as planned. Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter. Stranded and desperate, the six men of the Northern Party faced disaster. Searching out a snow drift they burrowed inside. Lieutenant Victor Campbell drew a line across the floor in the gloom to establish naval order: three officers on one side, the three seamen on the other. A birthday was celebrated with a carefully hoarded biscuit and they sang hymns every Sunday, so what kept these men going? 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 the Polar Party must be dead and hoped that another six men would not be added to the death toll. Working from expedition diaries, journals and letters written by expedition members, Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story of Scott's other expedition