1912. Antarctica. The great white silence. The land of no maps. The fiercest desert on the planet. Read more …
Into this terrifying landscape, five men struggle up mountains and across glaciers and crevasses to claim the South Pole for science and the British Empire. But they are not alone. There is one more explorer that no-one expected… A comical-tragical tale of the last heroes of the Golden Age of Exploration.
The writing is often breathtakingly beautiful, luminous with the beauty of the icy continent; Kevin Lennon’s performance, in simple jeans and duffle coat, is perfect, not without humour, yet also deep, thoughtful, moving.
Scott's endeavour has been well chronicled in print and film. And here is nothing new added here. But Lennon makes for an engaging guide to a tale of derring do's and don'ts, with Emmanuel's left-field approach to the subject making for a surreal, but gripping history lesson.
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