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Blizzard - Race to the Pole Jasper Rees

Blizzard - Race to the Pole By Jasper Rees

Blizzard - Race to the Pole by Jasper Rees


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Summary

In a unique television experiment, two teams led by the Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes and the television anthropologist Bruce Parry, star of the BBC2 series Tribe, set out to recreate the famous race.

Blizzard - Race to the Pole Summary

Blizzard - Race to the Pole by Jasper Rees

In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but also to live to tell the tale. Six months later, Robert Falcon Scott and four of his party were dead, while Roald Amundsens victory had been wired around the world. A century on, the debate still rages. Was Scott unfortunate or incompetent? Was Amundsen a genius or lucky? In a unique television experiment, two teams led by the Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes and the television anthropologist Bruce Parry, star of the BBC2 series Tribe, set out to recreate the famous race. Wearing the same type of clothing as their predecessors, surviving on the same diet, using the same equipment and travelling over the same distance, they seek to answer some of the burning questions. Blizzard is a dramatic chronicle of both the original epic, and its reconstruction. Jasper Reess narrative skilfully intertwines past and present as he brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters. They may be separated from their predecessors by nearly a hundred years, but the modern race teams soon discover that, in polar travel, nothing changes. Among the hardships they face are uncontrollable dogs, inedible food, invisible crevasses, unimaginable cold, all in an unending prairie of snow. Incorporating the gripping diaries of Parry and Gjeldnes, Blizzard paints an astonishing picture of comradeship in the face of physical danger and psychological torment in the most life-threatening habitat on earth.

Blizzard - Race to the Pole Reviews

In an ambitious experiment, "The Great Race" recreates the worst journey in the world to discover the chilling truth behind the race to the South Pole."

About Jasper Rees

Jasper Rees is a freelance journalist. He has written on the arts, literature, culture and sport for, among others, the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Independent, GQ and Vogue. He is the author of Wenger: The Making of a Legend and the forthcoming musical memoir I Found My Horn. He lives in London.

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GOR002197950
9780563493266
0563493267
Blizzard - Race to the Pole by Jasper Rees
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Ebury Publishing
2006-07-27
288
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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