What are you reading the week of March 23, 2014?

[scarletwoman]

3. The Last Place on Earth, by Roland Huntford. It's an old book I've had on the shelf for years.

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I started it once years ago, but set it aside for some reason and never got back to it.

Now I'm having a wonderful time reading it - I can hardly put it down.

It's the story of the Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott's race to the be the first to reach the South Pole. This book was absolutely vilified in England when it was first published because it totally tore apart the entire heroic mythology that had grown up around Scott. Rather gleefully, I might add, even though the author is British himself.

The book was the basis for a wonderful PBS/Masterpiece Theater mini-series of the same name.

If there's any interest, I'll post more.

(edited for misspelling the author's name - duh!)