"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised."
This is the story of a British expedition which aimed to be the first to reach the south pole, suffered greatly in the effort, and was still beaten to the punch by a Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen.
This is a 2004 reprint of this famous polar book, first published in 1992. It is hefty - over 600 pages, uninterrupted by pictures.
