Full name: The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

Author: Roald Amundsen Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780815411277 0815411278

Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the Pole first, but--due to poor preparation and miscalculation--died with the rest of his party on their return trip. The South Pole remains one of the greatest and most important books on polar exploration. Similar books: The Home of the Blizzard by Douglas Mawson The Heart of the Antarctic by Ernest Shackleton Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott This Accursed Land by Lennard Bickel Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Worsley Shackleton's Forgotten Men by Lennard Bickel Below the Convergence by Alan Gurney The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard South by Ernest Shackleton The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis Alone by Richard E. Byrd Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition by Beau Riffenburgh South with Endurance by Frank Hurley The Endurance by Caroline Alexander