I May Be Some Time Av Francis (Author) Spufford

<p><b>''A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.'' Jan Morris, <i>The Times </i></b><br><b>''Shot through with crystalline brilliance.'' <i>Washington Post </i></b><br><b>''Fascinating.'' </b><i>Sunday Times </i><br><br>When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates¿s last words: ¿I¿m just going outside, and I may be some time.¿ Francis Spufford¿s celebrated and prize-winning history shows how Scott¿s death was the culmination of a national enchantment with vast empty spaces, the beauty of untrodden snow, and perilous journeys to the end of the earth.<br><br><b>Winner of the <i>Sunday Times </i>Young Writer of the Year Award, the Writers'' Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the Banff Mountain Book Prize. </b></p>