Roland Huntford has written several ‘books on South Pole explorers: Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott: two very real heroes and one idiot. The great irony is that contemporary society made the idiot the hero! Scott has long been revered in British society as the great explorer, yet Huntford in his fas...
I've always been struck by the fact that the British revere Scott, a miserable failure, in my estimation. He was smug, didn't do his homework, and wasted resources on a doomed effort. Amundsen, on the other hand, studied the Eskimos to learn how to survive in harsh arctic conditions, learned how to ...
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