Review Essay: Changing Trends in Remembering Amundsen and Scott

Review of: Ross D. E. MacPhee, Race to the End. Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole, New York: Sterling Publishing Co. 2010, ISBN 9781402770296, 245 pp. plus panorama foldout plates and map; Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice. Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Scie...

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Main Author: Elzinga, Aant
Format: Review
Language:English
Published: Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 2012
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-66468
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Summary:Review of: Ross D. E. MacPhee, Race to the End. Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole, New York: Sterling Publishing Co. 2010, ISBN 9781402770296, 245 pp. plus panorama foldout plates and map; Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice. Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, New Haven & London: Yale University Press 2011, ISBN 9780300154085, 288 pp.; Cornelia Lüdecke, Roald Amundsen. Ein biografisches Porträt, Freiburg–Basel–Wien: Verlag Herder GmbH 2011, ISBN 9783451062247, 208 pp.