The Longest Winter

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-09-30
Publisher(s): Smithsonian Inst Pr
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Summary

Traces the survival story of the six-member scientific expedition that accompanied the doomed South Pole exploration team led by Captain Scott, drawing on the unpublished journals of Dr. Murray Levick to document their harrowing seven-month struggle with sub-zero temperatures, starvation, dysentery, and mental breakdowns before embarking on a thirty-seven-day escape. 12,000 first printing.

Author Biography

Katherine Lambert has worked for many years as a magazine and book editor and producer. She was editor of Expedition, the house magazine of the World Expeditionary Association, and is currently managing editor of the annual Good Gardens Guide. She lives in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction by Peter King xiii
CHAPTER ONE Terra Nova to Terra Incognita 1(41)
CHAPTER TWO "Perfidious Amundsen" and the Bay of Whales 42(17)
CHAPTER THREE Confinement at Cape Adare 59(48)
CHAPTER FOUR Working the Glaciers from Evans Coves 107(14)
CHAPTER FIVE The Igloo on Inexpressible Island 121(42)
CHAPTER SIX The Long Haul to Cape Evans 163(24)
CHAPTER SEVEN The Return 187(21)
Epilogue 208(3)
An Antarctic Gazetteer 211(9)
Notes 220(10)
Index 230

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