Max Jones
- The last great quest. Captain Scott's Antarctic sacrifice
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Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether
Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers,
intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent
driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes,
Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions
and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how
heroes are made and manipulated, through a close examination
of the unprecedented outpouring of public grief at the news
of the death of Scott and his companions. Max Jones uses
fascinating new evidence and previously unseen illustrations
to take us back to this remarkable moment in modern history
to tell for the first time, the full story of The Last
Great Quest.
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