Captain Scott (Audible Audio Edition) Ranulph Fiennes Hodder Headline Limited Books
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The real story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived by the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through. Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of Scott's life - and discusses how his achievements have been viewed after his death - with empathy and great skill.
Captain Scott (Audible Audio Edition) Ranulph Fiennes Hodder Headline Limited Books
I am glad I read Mr Fiennes book. Sadly my opinion of Capt.Scott was previously solely based on the drama 'Last place on Earth'. Now I feel I can treat the memory of Capt.Scott more fairly. Thank you Mr Fiennes, your personal experience in polar expeditions was both scientifically engaging and endearingly emphatic throughout the book.Product details
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Captain Scott (Audible Audio Edition) Ranulph Fiennes Hodder Headline Limited Books Reviews
Ran Fiennes does a great job of showcasing the 'real Scott' after receiving several character assassinations from armchair critics over the years. Ran is one of the best placed people on this Earth to offer an unbiased opinion on Scott's character and achievements as he's 'been there, done that' himself - he's walked many miles in Scott's shoes.
You only need look no further than the many books written by other team members of Scott's expedition (read Cherry-Garrard's "The Worst Journey in the World" for one) to see they all thought the world of Scott - even 'Titus' Oates came round in the end.
Criticizing someone's decisions and achievements without having experienced the same situation for yourself is foolish and many have fallen into this trap. Just because Scott and his Polar Party died doesn't make it a failure - look at the wealth of scientific and geographical information that came from the time they all spent down South.
Read this book with an open mind and you might just learn something about true, charismatic leadership, and about Scott himself.
Without question Ranulph Fiennes has written a sympathetic biography of the famous polar explorer, Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Fiennes has the personal knowledge and experience to back-up his analysis of Scott's polar journeys. This book does not paint Scott to be a flawless superman but in my view restores him to the heroic explorer that he was. Surely Scott was ambitious and bold, he was after all an explorer attempting to go to a place no man had ever reached, the South Pole. Highly recommended winter read. I listened to the Audible Audio abridged version read by the author himself. My only regret is that the unabridged version was not available from Audible.
1. All the reviewers who argue that Fiennes is better placed to judge and write about Scott because "he's been there and done that" are basically saying that all historians and biographers are worthless because they didn't do what the people they wrote about did. In fact we know that isn't true. Any more that saying no critic should be listened to because they haven't experienced what they are critisizing.
2. A hero is someone who sacrifices for the benefit of others. Scott is no hero. What he did may have been for the glory of England but that doesn't make one a hero.
3 There is only one question to be answered How did Ahmundsen make it to the pole before Scott and return with no loss of life and no suffering. There is no way to answer that doesn't point directly at Scotts mismanagement. Fiennes doesn't and can't excuse the mistakes which led to the loss of life.
4 It all comes down to the hubris of the English then as now which is what let's them view failure as heroism.
This is a really excellent book. A little over-detailed in places, and sometimes shows Fiennes's obvious (IMHO justifiable) rage over revisionists who have warped retelling of Scott's story. Sir Ranulph is in a rare position of having travelled extensively in the polar regions, and based much of his equipment and travel choices on study of the early Antarctic explorers. His choice of many of Scott's methods puts his money (and his life) where his mouth is. He traces the origin of various quotes and opinions back to the original material. His own experience with diary entries during an expedition, together with similar material from Mear and Swan's "A Walk to the Pole," put a really good perspective on interpretation of such quotes.
A very enjoyable part is his debunking of Roland Huntford. I read Huntford's book years ago, and also saw the PBS version of the movie based on it. My thoughts reading and watching were "What is this guy smoking?" I now know that Huntford was a sportswriter, not an actual historian, misrepresented himself to family members to gain access to original material, falsely presented himself as being associated with the Scott Polar Research Institute, and even fabricated his biography. Nice when things fall into place.
This book gives a detailed account of both of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctica explorations. Being a polar explorer himself. Fiennes is able to give insights into exactly what Scott and his expeditions experienced and endured. If you are looking for a book that attacks Scott and his legend this is not for you and Fiennes makes a very convincing argument against those authors who have attacked Scott. Instead, this book will allow you to see what made Scott a true hero of not only his era but for the generations that followed. Scott exemplified all that was good and heroic in pre- World War I Great Britain.
"Captain Scott," Ranulph Fiennes' biography of the Antarctic explorer who died during the so-called "Race to the Pole," is an exhaustively researched, brilliant work. It's no page-turner; you have to keep your focus to learn about the life of the British Naval officer and explorer who died in a tent with two of his crew members after reaching the South Pole just days after Norwegian Roald Amundsen in 1912.
There have been many books and some films about Scott, Amundsen and other polar expeditions from the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries, but this will be the definitive work on the late explorer's life.
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I am glad I read Mr Fiennes book. Sadly my opinion of Capt.Scott was previously solely based on the drama 'Last place on Earth'. Now I feel I can treat the memory of Capt.Scott more fairly. Thank you Mr Fiennes, your personal experience in polar expeditions was both scientifically engaging and endearingly emphatic throughout the book.
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