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Death on the ice : a novel based on the Terra Nova Expedition

The tragic story of Robert Falcon Scott's quest for the South Pole is brought to sparkling new life in this adventure novel It is one of the most famous quotes in the history of exploration: I am just going outside. I may be some time. The story of how former cavalry officer Lawrence Oates came to deliver his brave last words, before walking bootless into a Antarctic blizzard so that Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition might have a better chance of survival, is brilliantly reimagined in this epic novel based on fact. A hero of the Boer Wars, Oates joined Scott's second journey to Antarctica with dreams of winning the race to the South Pole for England. But small mistakes and bad luck plagued the mission from the start, and when they finally reached the Pole on January 17, 1912, Oates and Scott were heartbroken to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten them there by more than a month. Little did they know, things were about to get much, much worse.

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  • "The tragic story of Robert Falcon Scott's quest for the South Pole is brought to sparkling new life in this adventure novel It is one of the most famous quotes in the history of exploration: I am just going outside. I may be some time. The story of how former cavalry officer Lawrence Oates came to deliver his brave last words, before walking bootless into a Antarctic blizzard so that Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition might have a better chance of survival, is brilliantly reimagined in this epic novel based on fact. A hero of the Boer Wars, Oates joined Scott's second journey to Antarctica with dreams of winning the race to the South Pole for England. But small mistakes and bad luck plagued the mission from the start, and when they finally reached the Pole on January 17, 1912, Oates and Scott were heartbroken to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten them there by more than a month. Little did they know, things were about to get much, much worse."@en
  • "Following on from the success of Empire of Sand, Robert Ryan tells the story of the last expedition of 'Scott of the Antarctic'."@en
  • "The tragic story of Robert Falcon Scott's quest for the South Pole is brought to sparkling new life in this adventure novel It is one of the most famous quotes in the history of exploration: "I am just going outside. I may be some time." The story of how former cavalry officer Lawrence Oates came to deliver his brave last words, before walking bootless into a Antarctic blizzard so that Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition might have a better chance of survival, is brilliantly reimagined in this epic novel based on fact. A hero of the Boer Wars, Oates joined Scott's second journey to Antarctica with dreams of winning the race to the South Pole for England. But small mistakes and bad luck plagued the mission from the start, and when they finally reached the Pole on January 17, 1912, Oates and Scott were heartbroken to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten them there'by more than a month. Little did they know, things were about to get much, much worse."@en
  • "In the vein of Robert Harris' Pompeii, which sold over 700,000 copies, Robert Ryan tells the story of the last expedition of 'Scott of the Antarctic'."@en
  • "The story of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful journey to the South Pole in which five men died in the most appalling conditions. Since their deaths nearly a hundred years ago, their final days have been surrounded by myth and controversy, what really happened?"@en

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  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
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  • "Death on ice"
  • "Death on the ice : a novel based on the Terra Nova Expedition"@en
  • "Death on the ice : a novel"@en
  • "Death on the ice"
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