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An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
by Edward J. Larson
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An Empire of Ice Scott Shackleton and the Heroic Age of An Empire of Ice Scott Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science Paperback – December 4 2012 An Empire of Ice Scott Shackleton and the Heroic Age of During the Heroic Age 19 men died on the Antarctic continent An Empire of Ice touches on the politics of the race Starting with James Clark Ross in 1841 and ending with Earnest Shackleton in 1931 Antarctica was the destination of 17 scientific expeditions launched from ten different countries An Empire of Ice Scott Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration Retold with added information its the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton and others in a larger scientific social and geopolitical An Empire of Ice Scott Shackleton and the Heroic Age of An Empire of Iceoffers a new perspective on the Antarctic expeditions of the early twentieth century by looking at the British efforts for what they actually were massive scientific enterprises in which reaching the South Pole was but a spectacular sideshow By focusing on the larger purpose Edward Larson deepens our appreciation of the explorers achievements shares littleknown stories and shows what the Heroic Age of Antarctic discovery was really about An empire of ice Scott Shackleton and the heroic age An empire of ice Scott Shackleton and the heroic age of Antarctic science Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration An Empire of Ice Scott Shackleton and the Heroic Age of An Empire of Ice Scott Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J Larson Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration Ed Larson speaks on An Empire of Ice at Bowers Museum Professor Edward J Larson spoke about his book An Empire of Ice Scott Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science as part of An Antarctic Panel at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana California The museum is currently featuring photographs and other artifacts of Sir Ernest Shackletons survival in Antarctica An Empire of Ice Pepperdine Newsroom Ten years in the making Empire of Ice explores the three British Antarctic expeditions of Shackleton and Robert Scott between 1901 and 1913 through a unique lens “I realized that scientific research conducted by these expeditions was largely forgotten in the focus of historians and the public in the race to the pole” says Larson University Professor and Hugh Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine An empire of ice Scott Shackleton and the heroic age An empire of ice Scott Shackleton and the heroic age of Antarctic science by Larson Edward J Edward John
