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A First Rate Tragedy

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by Diana Preston


  Table of Contents

  Author biography

  Title page

  Copyright page

  Dedication page

  Contents

  Illustrations

  Acknowledgements

  Explanatory Note

  Maps

  Introduction

  1 The Early Heats of the Great Race

  2 Scott – The Early Days

  3 ‘Ready, Aye, Ready’

  4 ‘Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came’

  5 ‘Poor Old Shackleton’

  6 ‘Little Human Insects’

  7 The Reluctant Celebrity

  8 Captain Scott in Love

  9 A Matter of Honour

  10 ‘Am Going South, Amundsen’

  11 Stewed Penguin Breast and Plum Pudding

  12 Winter

  13 ‘Miserable, Utterly Miserable’

  14 ‘What Castles One Builds’

  15 ‘God Help Us’

  16 ‘Had We Lived . . .’

  17 ‘We Have Got To Face It Now’

  18 The Reason Why

  Epilogue

  Sources and References

  Bibliography

  Index

 

 

 


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