Book Review
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• To provide a critical analysis, assessment, summary and recommendation to
potential readers
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• Never mention the ending
Robert Falcon Scott
(1868-1912, Antarctica)
British naval officer and
explorer--led the famed ill-fated second
expedition to reach the South
Pole (1910–12)
Ernest Henry Shackleton ( 1874 –
1922)
Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer
led three British expeditions to the
Antarctica
known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic
Exploration
Roald Engelbregt Gravning
Amundsen (1872 – 1928)
Norwegian explorer of polar
regions
known as the Heroic Age of
Antarctic Exploration
The Plot = Real-Life Story
== The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an
undiscovered continent into the Arctic
== blown off course by polar storms, the ship
became imprisoned in ice
== abandoned by its Leader Stefansson
==starvation, snow blindness, disease, exposure–
== twelve survivors rescued, thanks to the heroic
efforts of their captain, Bartlett the Ice Master,