In An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the heroic age of Antarctic science, Edward Larson explores the science and politics that inspired the pioneers
JUST over a century ago, a group of explorers set out from Britain on a mission that would cost many of them their lives. This much of Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition is well known. In this fascinating book, Edward J. Larson places the expedition, which ran from 1910 to 1913, in context as the last of three successive expeditions that aimed to solve some of Antarctica’s most important scientific mysteries.
Chapter by chapter, Larson…
