The Longest Winter

Scott's Other Heroes

Nonfiction, History, Polar Regions, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Meredith Hooper ISBN: 9781582438382
Publisher: Counterpoint Press Publication: October 1, 2011
Imprint: Counterpoint Language: English
Author: Meredith Hooper
ISBN: 9781582438382
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication: October 1, 2011
Imprint: Counterpoint
Language: English

“A thrilling account” of a harrowing Antarctic expedition, enriched with the historical journals of the explorers themselves (The New York Times).
 
Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished, and the ship had failed to pick them up as planned. Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter. Stranded and desperate, Lieutenant Victor Campbell and his five companions faced disaster. They burrowed inside a snowdrift, digging an ice-cave with no room to stand upright, but space for six sleeping bags on the floor—the three officers on one side, the three seamen on the other. Circumstances forced them closer together, their roles blurred, and a shared sense of reality emerged. This mutual suffering made them indivisible and somehow they made it through the longest winter.
 
To the south, the men waiting at headquarters knew that Scott and his party must be dead, and hoped that another six lives would not be added to the death toll. Working from diaries, journals, and letters written by expedition members, Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story of Robert Falcon Scott’s other expedition.
 
“[A] gripping scientific adventure story [that] also includes fascinating details about glacial ecology.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“A grand story of six brave men who literally and figuratively pulled together in their race for survival.” —Kirkus Reviews

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“A thrilling account” of a harrowing Antarctic expedition, enriched with the historical journals of the explorers themselves (The New York Times).
 
Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished, and the ship had failed to pick them up as planned. Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter. Stranded and desperate, Lieutenant Victor Campbell and his five companions faced disaster. They burrowed inside a snowdrift, digging an ice-cave with no room to stand upright, but space for six sleeping bags on the floor—the three officers on one side, the three seamen on the other. Circumstances forced them closer together, their roles blurred, and a shared sense of reality emerged. This mutual suffering made them indivisible and somehow they made it through the longest winter.
 
To the south, the men waiting at headquarters knew that Scott and his party must be dead, and hoped that another six lives would not be added to the death toll. Working from diaries, journals, and letters written by expedition members, Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story of Robert Falcon Scott’s other expedition.
 
“[A] gripping scientific adventure story [that] also includes fascinating details about glacial ecology.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“A grand story of six brave men who literally and figuratively pulled together in their race for survival.” —Kirkus Reviews

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