This novel had me cheering and sobbing, it's chocked full of courage and although it is fiction, it reads like it's true. Somehow Mr Bainbridge's words got into my bones and i could not let go. Brutal as the Antarctic existence can be, one wants to live to return and tell the story, but when it is realized that that will not happen, life changes in a blink of an eye. There is nothing more serious as death watching you, knowing there is no where to run. This is deep, so deep it crawls inside of your mind and you will carry it for sometime. This is what i personally look for in a perfect read.
From School Library Journal
YA-A riveting fictionalized account of Robert Falcon Scott's doomed British expedition to the South Pole in 1910, related through the diary entries of five of its members. Bainbridge conveys a vivid sense of the era and of the pride, idealism, and bravado of the explorers as they prepare for their adventure. Once they reach Antarctica, their attention turns to the excitement and pleasure in the scenic and scientific discoveries that await them. But in the final analysis, it is their courage and fortitude that shine through in the face of failure (the Norwegian Amundsen beat them to the South Pole by a month) and the realization that they will not survive.
YA-A riveting fictionalized account of Robert Falcon Scott's doomed British expedition to the South Pole in 1910, related through the diary entries of five of its members. Bainbridge conveys a vivid sense of the era and of the pride, idealism, and bravado of the explorers as they prepare for their adventure. Once they reach Antarctica, their attention turns to the excitement and pleasure in the scenic and scientific discoveries that await them. But in the final analysis, it is their courage and fortitude that shine through in the face of failure (the Norwegian Amundsen beat them to the South Pole by a month) and the realization that they will not survive.
