Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions died from hunger and cold in 1912; they had reached the South Pole on January 18, only to discover that the Norwegian Amundsen had beaten them there a month earlier. The confirmation of Scott's death was met by an outpouring of public grief in Britain for the man quickly elevated to martyr status. In subsequent decades, biographers painted Scott as a self-absorbed, rash blunderer whose hubris led to the needless death of himself and his men, but Crane strives to present both the heroic and less-admirable aspects of Scott's career. 2006.

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