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'A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.' Jan Morris,
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When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words: 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.' Francis Spufford's celebrated and prize-winning history shows how Scott's death was the culmination of a national enchantment with vast empty spaces, the beauty of untrodden snow, and perilous journeys to the end of the earth.
Winner of the
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the Banff Mountain Book Prize.
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I May Be Some Time
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Epigraph
- ONE : A Different History for the Poles
- TWO : The Sublime
- THREE : News from Nowhere
- FOUR : Damn the North Pole!
- FIVE : The Powers of Frost and Air
- SIX : Lady Jane’s Lament
- SEVEN : Relics in the Snow
- EIGHT : Imagining Eskimos
- NINE : Comfortable Barbarians
- TEN : I Have Always Taken My Place, Haven’t I?
- EPILOGUE : On Observation Hill
- Acknowledgements
- Selected List of Sources
- Index
- About The Author
- Copyright
- Plates
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