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Antarctic Destinies - Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism (Paperback)
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Antarctic Destinies - Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism (Paperback)
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Presenting a study of the Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott
and Ernest Shackleton as well as their most heroic expeditions, the
author looks in detail at just how and why their individual
reputations have evolved over the course of the last century. 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.
For decades after his tragic death on the return journey from the
South Pole, to which he had been beaten by five weeks by the
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, Scott 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. Today, Scott and Shackleton occupy very different
places in the polar pantheon of British heroes. Stephanie
Barczewski explores the evolution of their reputations and finds it
has little to do with new discoveries regarding their lives and
characters, but far more to do with broader cultural changes and
changes in conceptions of heroism in Britain and the United States.
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