Table of Contents

List of Plates
List of figures
Abbreviations
1: Measuring the World
2: The Race to the South Pole
3: Disaster in the Antarctic
4: Remembering the Dead
5: 'Martyrs of Science'
6: 'For the Honour of our Country'
7: 'These Were Men'
8: 'So Many Heroes'
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Further Reading
Index

Reviews

`Excellent book'
The Independent on Sunday
`Review from previous edition a mesmerising and superbly researched book'
Beryl Bainbridge, The Spectator
`Antarctic scholars and the general reader can enjoy a well-produced and beautifully illustrated account...'
Klaus Dodds THES
`A meticulous examination...weaving record, anecdote and example with great skill, with some remarkable conclusions'
Washington Times
`A well-researched account'
Sunday Times
`Max Jones...is much more sensitive than previous writers to the full range of meanings which were invested in the Scott story.'
Historical Journal
`a fascinating and wide-ranging study'
Sunday Times