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Antarctic Destinies - Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism (Hardcover)
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Antarctic Destinies - Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism (Hardcover)
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This book covers the two most famous expeditions of the Heroic Age
of Antarctic exploration: Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova
expedition of 1910-12 and Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition
of 1914-16. It focuses not only on the two expeditions, but also on
the ways in which the reputations of the men who led them have
evolved over the course of the last century. For decades after
Scott's tragic death on the return journey from the South Pole - to
which he had been beaten by only five weeks - he was regarded as a
saint-like figure with an unassailable reputation born from his
heroic martyrdom in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic.In recent
years, however, Scott has attracted some of the most intense
criticism any explorer has ever received. Shackleton's reputation,
meanwhile, has followed a reverse trajectory. Although his
achievements were always appreciated, they were never celebrated
with nearly the same degree of adulation that traditionally
surrounded Scott. But in the final decades of the twentieth century
Shackleton has come to be regarded as the beau ideal of the heroic
explorer, a man capable of providing leadership lessons not only
for other explorers but also for corporate executives and
politicians.Today, Scott and Shackleton therefore occupy very
different places in the polar pantheon than they once did. This
change has come about with little new information about either man
or the expeditions they led coming to light. Their actions and
personalities, their virtues and flaws, have not changed. How, when
and why attitudes towards Scott and Shackleton have altered over
the course of the twentieth century forms the subject of this book.
It explores how the evolution of their reputations has far more to
do with broader cultural changes in Britain and the United States.
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