[Image: (l-r) Shackleton, Scott, Wilson before their march south, 2 November 1902] “Are you pro- or anti-Captain Scott?” the bookseller asked me. I looked back non-plussed. I hadn’t known there was an anti-Scott position. It was 1996 and I was in a Liverpool bookshop buying Roland Huntford’s book on the 1911-2 race to the South Pole between Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen. “Come back and tell me what you think,” the bookseller said.
Polar Heroism: 1. Captain R.F. Scott: National hero or sentimental bungler?
The TV mini-series Last Place on Earth with Martin Shaw as Scott was excellent. Based on Huntford's book.