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Susan Solomon

The Coldest March – Scott′s Fatal Antarctic Expedition Hardcover – 5 Sept. 2001

by Susan Solomon (Author)

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This riveting book tells the tragic story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his British team who in November 1911 began a trek across the snows of Antarctica, striving to be the first to reach the South Pole. After marching and skiing more than nine hundred miles, the men reached the Pole in January 1912, only to suffer the terrible realisation that a group of five Norwegians had been there almost a month earlier. On their return journey, Scott and his four companions perished, and their legacy, as courageous heroes or tragic incompetents, has been debated ever since. Susan Solomon brings a scientific perspective to understanding the men of the expedition, their staggering struggle, and the reasons for their deaths. Drawing on extensive meteorological data and on her own personal knowledge of the Antarctic, she depicts in detail the sights, sounds, legends, and ferocious weather of this singular place. And she reaches the startling conclusion that Scott's polar party was struck down by exceptionally frigid weather - a rare misfortune that thwarted the men's meticulous predictions of what to expect. Solomon describes the many adventures and challenges faced by Scott and his men on their journey, and she also discusses each one's life, contributions, and death. Her poignant and beautifully written book restores them to the place of honour they deserve.

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0300089678
ISBN-13

978-0300089677
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First Edition
Publisher

Yale University Press
Publication date

5 Sept. 2001
Language

English
Dimensions

16.51 x 3.18 x 23.5 cm
Print length

404 pages
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"This is a very well balanced and meticulously researched bookThe Coldest March goes a long way to putting polar history right..." -- Sir Ranulph Fiennes

'A fascinating vindication of Captain Scott's fatal expedition.' -- Robert McCrum, The Observer, 4 November 2001

'It disproves the attempted character assassination of Scott by an
earlier writer and is a great read.'
-- Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 'My Six Best Books', Daily Express, September 8 2006

'[a] thoughtful, rigorous and nicely written book' -- Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian, 10 November 2001

'a fascinating account that gets under the skin of the tragedy's players.' Stuart Wavell -- The Sunday Times, 30 September 2001

'highly original, beautifully presented and remarkably modest...a marvellous and complex book' -- Robert Macfarlane, The Observer, 7 October 2001

About the Author

Susan Solomon is senior scientist at the Aeronomy Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado. An acknowledged world leader in ozone depletion research, she was honoured with the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1999 for 'key insights in explaining the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole'. Among her many other distinctions is an Antarctic glacier named after her.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; First Edition (5 Sept. 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 404 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300089678
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300089677
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 3.18 x 23.5 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 738,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 238 in History of Arctic & Antarctic
- 1,093 in History of Discovery & Exploration
- 3,802 in Higher Education on Geography

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JWA

Extraordinary men, extraordinary time.....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2015

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This journey is a balanced one, and settles somewhere between heroism, stupidity and bad luck in terms of why these brave men died. It still amazes me that they could even undertake such a journey at that time. I have experienced temperatures of - 40, and know that normal people need to go inside after five minutes, regardless of what they are wearing! These men were extraordinary, and the book demonstrates this time and time again. It is elegantly written, though I admit to having skipped the introduction to each chapter which puts a modern perspective on the place and time. I would also have appreciated one comprehensive map because I found myself many times foraging for the right one. These two details aside, I found the book very readable, comprehensive and appealing.

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Miseri57

An excellent scientific explanation rather than a vindication

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2007

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Given that Soloman's Scott account is from a Scientist's perspective I thought I was going to be in for a hard read. I couldn't have been more wrong. Well written and well researched, Soloman smoothly guides the reader over the scientific complexities with a style not unlike a detective novel - in itself a mark of distinction.

However, to say that this is a vindication of Captain Scott's fatal expedition is, at the very least, an enthusiastic overstatement promulgated, I suspect, by Scott devotees desperate to reincarnate the misguided glory bestowed on him for the first decade or so after his and his men's deaths.

Nevertheless, as a scientific explanation, Solomon offers the reader a completely new and refreshing breakaway from the Victorian and Edwardian commentaries that have hitherto stacked the `Antarctic Expedition' book shelves.

Refreshing, informative, probing and, not least, a damn good read.

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P. Henniker

Scott's fatal polar exploration.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2020

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A good read. A replacement for a copy lost some years ago. The story of the fateful expedition told with firsthand notes and great detail from the diaries of the explorers themselves. Susan Solomon writes of the background to the exploration and gives an insight into the preparation needed for such a journey. She tells the story in such a way that the details make you feel the cold, the struggles with the equipment and the camaraderie among the explorers are happening right now and not a hundred years ago. Ultimately a story of human endurance, victorian values and British pride at being first.

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Mrs Heather Foster

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2015

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Useful account of a tragic episode

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2018

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bought as a gift but it was very well received.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 July 2014

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this review is for the actual book not the content. i have bought many books from world of books and have always been delighted with the used books. however this copy is absolutely filthy. it will have to be cleaned before i can read it. no way can it be described as "very good" it would appear to have slipped the net. please ensure you revert to your usual excellent standards. thank you.

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John Stanfield

A good buy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2018

This is a well researched balanced review of the events. Notably it benefits from an author who writes well and who has the acknowledged scientific expertise to be able to describe the expedition and put forward credible explanations. Very readable - This is one of the best books I have read covering Captain Scott’s fateful journey.

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Andy

A very well researched account of the ill-fated expedition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2017

A very well researched account of the ill-fated expedition, one that benefits from the input of modern meteorology as well as the author's personal experience of the Antarctic. Scott's misjudgements aren't ignored, but some of the accusations of blundering made by other writers are disputed. They rode their luck, basically; and didn't have sufficient margin of safety when the weather that year proved to be much colder than their limited previous experience suggested was likely.

The final chapter is completely new to me, as evidence is presented that Scott's account of the weather they were experiencing in their final days could not have been accurate. Without claiming to have entirely revealed that which we can never know, Dr Solomon goes on to suggest a scenario of might have happened in their final camp, in some ways more tragic than the traditional account.

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