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1) The worst journey in the world

Author

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

Series

Penguin classics

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The author relates his experiences as part of the team that set out from England in 1910 under the leadership of Robert Falcon Scott to explore the Antarctic and attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.

2) Emperors of the ice: a true story of disaster and survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13

Author

Farr, Richard

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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 the evolutionary history of emperor penguins. Includes historical notes.

3) Race to the South Pole

Author

Messner, Kate

Series

Ranger in time volume 4

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Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.