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by Thomas Keneally (Author) "Once, sometime in the 1930s, when journalists pressed me about the Henneker rumors, I cried out, "We were the great New British South Polar Expedition..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Harvest Books; 2 Reprint edition (Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0156007339
  • ISBN-13: 978-0156007337
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.5 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,414,667 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'I was riveted by this tale of a man fighting the elements and his fellow explorers' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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'His story is tightly reined: terse, ironic, reflective. His depiction of Edwardian innocence and stuffiness crashing against the Antartic void is superb' (Washington Post )

'The solution is as astonishing as it is inevitable, the denouement chilling and tragic' (Ruth Rendell )

'The period gives this book its strength and character ... altogether an admirable accomplishment' (New Yorker )

'The absolute dark, absolute cold of the Antartic is skilfully evoked' (Sunday Times )

'A powerful and subtle writer ... a remarkable novel' (Spectator )

'I was riveted by this tale of a man fighting the elements and his fellow explorers' (Daily Telegraph ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Murder in the Antarctic., 16 Sep 2003
By Mary Whipple (New England) - See all my reviews
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Written in 1978, this is a murder mystery set near the South Pole in 1909, the same year as Sir Ernest Shackleton's first expedition and five years before the Endurance epic. A similar crew of explorer-scientists and sailors, with the same attitudes and prejudices that one finds in the literary record of the Endurance, perform similar tasks under similar conditions, with one big exception. Captain Eugene Stewart (sharing initials with Ernest Shackleton) must also investigate his own crew as he attempts to unmask the murderer of Victor Henneker, the expedition's representative of the press, who intends to record the voyage for posterity.

With the same care for historic details and period attitudes which one sees in some of Keneally's later, prize-winning books, such as Confederates and Schindler's List, Keneally reveals a blackmailer who holds damaging information about almost everyone in the crew, their reputations vulnerable because they have violated the inflexible moral strictures of Edwardian England. A cuckolded husband, the secret lover of a married aristocrat, a mountain guide who may be responsible for a fatal excursion, a man tried for theft, and others "guilty" of homosexuality, Zionism, illegitimacy, and heresy reflect the pettiness and rigidity of "civilized" life in England and offer motivation both for the murder of Victor and for participating in the expedition. The book's conclusion is also consistent with the mores of the day. While this may not be the greatest mystery of all time, it is certainly one in which the author has done all his homework, well worth reading for the context it provides for other (real) expeditions of the day.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Murder in the Antarctic, 29 Dec 1998
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A claustrophobic novel about a turn of the century Antarctic expedition which turns into a murder investigation when one of it's members is found dead on the ice. The bulk of the novel involves discovering the victim's past and how it interconnected with the lives of the other team members. An interesting, light-weight novel with a twist at the end. Read it on a snowy weekend.
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