Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans - Couverture souple

Williams, Isobel

 
9780752458458: Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0752458450 ISBN 13 : 9780752458458
Editeur : The History Press, 2012

Synopsis

Edgar Evans was described by Robert Falcon Scott as 'a giant worker. . . an invaluable assistant'. Having joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor at the age of 15, he rose rapidly to the rank of chief petty officer, serving with a young Scott on board Hms Majestic along the way. He took part in the Discovery expedition of 1901-04, and was awarded the Polar Medal on Scott's recommendation. In between expeditions, he trained the Royal Tournament-winning Portsmouth field gun team. He explored more miles of Antarctica than any other member of the Terra Nova expedition, but his contribution has been largely overlooked because of the implication that, as he was the first to die, he slowed up the progress of the return journey. Isobel Williams's biography of Evans corrects this false impression, as well as redresses the balance of the attention paid to the upper- and lower-deck members of the expedition.

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À propos de l?auteur

Isobel Williams is the author of With Scott in the Antarctic.

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Éditeur
The History Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0752458450
ISBN 13 
9780752458458
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
208
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