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A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole

10 best books like A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole (Diana Preston): The Birthday Boys, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition, Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences, The Railways: Nation, Network and People, Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot, Captain Scott, Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition, Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition

The Birthday Boys
AuthorBeryl Bainbridge
ISBN0786702079
In this stunning novel, award-winning author Beryl Bainbridge offers a fictionalized account of the doomed Antarctic expedition led by Captain Scott in 1912. At once hair-raising and beautiful, here is an astonishing tale of misguided courage and human endurance. The Birthday Boys of the title...
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
AuthorFrancis Spufford
ISBN0312220812
Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination . . ." The title, a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return, embodies...
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
AuthorRobert Falcon Scott
ISBN0786703822
In November 1910, a ship called Terra Nova left New Zealand on its way south to Antarctica. On board was an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, a man determined to be the first to reach the South Pole. A year and a half later, Scott and three members of his team died during a brutal blizzard....
The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition
AuthorSusan Solomon
ISBN0300099215
“These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the interrupted tale of Scott and his British expedition,...
Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences
AuthorDennis Skinner
ISBN1782061592
Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions...
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
AuthorSimon Bradley
Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination...
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
AuthorKen McGoogan
ISBN0786711566
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Rae's prolific record: 1,776 miles surveyed of uncharted territory; 6,555 miles hiked on snowshoes; and 6,700 miles navigated in small...
Captain Scott
AuthorRanulph Fiennes
ISBN0340826991

This biography on Captain Scott by Ranulph Fiennes will rank in my top ten books for 2003. I have to confess that I have no in-depth knowledge on artic travel and exploration other than having read a few good books on the subject.

Having said that, out of the books that I have read on the subject...
Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition
AuthorScott Cookman
ISBN0471404209
It has been called the greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration. Led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, two state-of-the-art ships and 128 hand-picked men----the best and the brightest of the British empire----sailed from Greenland on July 12, 1845 in search of the elusive Northwest...
Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition
AuthorLeonard F. Guttridge
ISBN0425176541
The Arctic's most notorious expedition...

A true story of mutiny, madness, suicide, and cannibalism.

In Icebound, acclaimed historian Leonard F. Guttridge told a "truly exciting" (Atlantic Monthly) and "gripping tale" (Washington Post) of exploration that was "well worth...
The Heart of the Antarctic: The Farthest South Expedition 1907-1909
AuthorErnest Shackleton
ISBN0451200462
What induced me to start reading E. Shackleton’s dramatic diary on his first Antarctic journey as a leader of an expedition was William’s Grill “Shackleton’s Journey” illustrated and narrated by himself. Despite being a children-purposed colorful table book, it appeared a page-turner...
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
AuthorMichael Smith
ISBN1848890532
The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in Antarctic exploration. He spent more time in the unexplored Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton, and outlived both. Among the last to see Scott alive, Crean was in the search party that found the frozen body....
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
AuthorSara Wheeler
ISBN0224050044
Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry, despite his short sight, undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. The temperature fell to 70 degrees below zero, it...
Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
AuthorLennard Bickel
ISBN1586420003
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion,...
K2: Triumph and Tragedy
AuthorJim Curran
ISBN0395485908
K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest and is one of the most unrelenting and testing of the worlds 8000-metre peaks.

Jim Curran came to K2 as a climbing cameraman with an unsuccessful British expedition, but stayed on...
Shackleton
AuthorRoland Huntford
ISBN0786705442
An amazing book on the amazing life of one of the great polar explorers. It appears that his fame has become more to the forefront in the past few years since one usually heard about Byrd and Scott but not Shackleton.

Polar exploration is often surrounded by more myth than fact and the author rights...
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
AuthorPierre Berton
ISBN0670824917
I think sub titles for books like this should “White Men Doing Stupid Things When They Should Have Asked Natives Instead”.

Because honestly, it would have been much easier if they had just followed the Inuit.

This massive book is about the discovery and exploration of the Arctic....
High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
AuthorClint Willis
ISBN1560252006
In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed four climbers' lives; a firsthand account by the Sherpa...
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917
AuthorFrank Hurley
THE DEFINITIVE AND SPELLBINDING RECORD OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, IMMORTALIZED ON FILM BY PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK HURLEY Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917 was one of the great feats of human endurance -- one vividly captured in the powerful...
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
AuthorMartin W. Sandler
ISBN1402740859
A riveting true adventure story….
An award-winning, bestselling author…
A page-turner that’s impossible to put down.
 
Almost everyone knows the photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as a young boy, peering out from under his father’s desk in the Oval Office. But few realize that...
The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition
AuthorDavid M. Wilson
ISBN0316178500
The myth of Scott of the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, icon of fortitude and courage who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole on March 29th, 1912, is an enduring one, elevated, dismantled and restored during the turbulence of the succeeding century. Until...
Tiger of the snows: The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest
AuthorTenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay was one of the first two men to set foot on the summit of Everest, along with Edmund Hillary, in 1953. In 1952, Tenzing had co-pioneered the upper part of the Southeast Ridge, leading to the summit, with the great Swiss climber Raymond Lambert, but when he and Hillary reached the summit in...
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