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Emperors of the ice : a true story of disaster and survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13
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Apsley "Cherry" Cherry-Garrard shares his adventures as the youngest member of Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica in the early twentieth century, during which he and Edward Wilson try to learn...
Apsley "Cherry" Cherry-Garrard shares his adventures as the youngest member of Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica in the early twentieth century, during which he and Edward Wilson try to learn the evolutionary history of emperor penguins. Includes historical notes.
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- Creator
- Richard Farr
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- Books
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- English
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- 1st ed
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
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- xix, 217 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374319755, 0374319758
- OCLC
- ocn211963256
- "The weirdest bird's-nesting expedition that has ever been or ever will be"--frontispiece.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214).
- Luckiest man alive: London to New Zealand, April to December 1910 -- Dying to get there: Southern Ocean, December 1910 -- White Christmas: Southern Ocean, December 1910 to January 1911 -- Seventy-seven South: Cape Evans, January to April 1911 -- Man-hauling in hell: Cape Evans to Cape Crozier, June to July 1911 -- Eggs: Cape Crozier, late July 1911 -- A long way home: Cape Crozier to Cape Evans, July to August 1911 -- Victory in defeat: Ross Island, the Barrier, and the Beardmore Glacier, October 1911 to November 1912 -- "What is the use?": The Berkeley Hotel, London, May 1959 -- Last words -- Chronology -- A scurvy note -- Thanks -- Sources -- Maps: From New Zealand to the South Pole -- McMurdo Sound -- The winter journey -- Bill's map of Cape Crozier -- The polar journey -- Charts: The men of the "Terra Nova" Expedition -- Food and equipment for Cape Crozier -- How cold was it?
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- British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913)
- Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, 1886-1959.
- Wilson, Edward, 1872-1912.
- Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912.
- British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913)
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- Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, 1886-1959.
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- Wilson, Edward, 1872-1912.
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- Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912.
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- Explorers.
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- Emperor penguins.
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- Penguins.
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- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration.
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