tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10076843.post8346853330709773267..comments2024-03-21T10:24:14.756+13:00Comments on Bibliophilia: 'Great God! This is an awful place'*Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10076843.post-80344925642448267992010-02-24T22:29:46.661+13:002010-02-24T22:29:46.661+13:00Excellent post!
I tend to side with Amundsen too...Excellent post! <br /><br />I tend to side with Amundsen too (though I like Shackleton even better - although Cherry-Garrard is a better writer, Shackleton's "South", his book on the Endurance expedition, is a wonderful tale of adventure and survival), but Dr Susan Solomon's "The Coldest March" is well worth reading as a counterweight to Huntford.<br /><br />Although Dr Solomon acknowledges some of Scott's mistakes, she makes the case that the Polar Party were very unlucky in the weather they encountered on their return journey.<br /><br />More power to your elbow, in any case!Tim Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856414700019368658noreply@blogger.com