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217 pp.
| Farrar
| October, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-0-374-31975-5$19.95
(2)
YA
The story of Scott's tragic South Pole quest is here retold as a fictional memoir by one of the expedition members, Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Based on "Cherry's" own memoir, Farr's revisioning is an enthralling tale, told with immediacy and verve. It's also a rewardingly intimate view of the members of the doomed Polar Party. Plentiful archival photographs and maps are interspersed. Timeline. Bib.