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Scott's Last Expedition

By: Robert Falcon Scott, E.L. Atkinson
Narrated by: Steve Gough, Ken Bradley
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Scott's Last Expedition

By Robert Falcon Scott.

Narrated by Steve Gough

Preface and Afterword narrated by Ken Bradley

Music composed and performed by Nadine Reddy.

Captain Scott's ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy - an epic tale of heroic endeavor which has inspired books and films over the generations.

Despite the simple outline of the story, Scott and his fellow explorers emerge as richly varied characters, brought to life by the diarist's skill as a story-teller. Scott's journal reaches its moving and dramatic crescendo when the explorers reach the Pole, only to discover that the Norwegian, Amundsen, has beaten them to it by many weeks.

Scott and his comrades turn back, knowing they face not just defeat but hundreds of miles of the most dangerous terrain known to man. Facing tortuous weather, dwindling food supplies, and that gnawing sense of defeat, Scott writes that "all is lost." Yet history has decided otherwise, for Scott is today far more famous than Amundsen: his triumph secured by the story he lived through and told so eloquently to the world.

Edited and narrated by Steve Gough, this Voices of Today audiobook also features an impressionistic sound design bringing the terrifying landscape of the Antarctic alive to the listener, alongside Scott's sad story. Scott's Last Expedition also includes E.L. Atkinson's 1913 account of the finding of Scott's body in the snow, read by Ken Bradley; and music specially composed by Nadine Reddy.

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R Scott’s Pioneering Adventure

I found the dynamic story of Scott’s Final Expedition fascinating and a visual learning experience. Beginning dockside as they were leaving a New Zealand port the sounds the waterfront drew me in. Throughout the unfolding story sounds of wind, animals, birds, blizzards and men were fine touches in the frozen world. The members of the expedition were scientists and crew and established the first polar weather station 110 years ago. Today that is crucial in understanding climate change. They traveled on a wooden ship with lead sheets on the prow. Today scientists go to the Antarctic and arctic in huge ice breaker ships the provide their labs and housing. Just this winter the sunken ship from the Shackleton expedition it was reported has been found. Acing climbed many mountains and used crampons, ice ax and alpine ropes I could see and feel the progression of their journey. The reading of Scott’s journal was crisp and clear as a Captain of the Royal Navy would do. And the introduction and afterward sounded like an official of the Admiralty. Thank you for the compelling story. John Wingfield.

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