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Snow widows : Scott's fatal Antarctic expedition through the eyes of the women left behind

MacInnes, Katherine2023
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott's polar party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the empire they served by reaching the South Pole before dying on the return journey. But they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. In this gripping and remarkable feat of historical reconstruction, Katherine MacInnes vividly depicts the lives, loves and losses of five women forced into the public eye by tragedy and shaped by the unrelenting culture of empire.
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