For the first time Katherine MacInnes retells the story of Captain Scott's race for the South Pole from the perspective of the five women left behind.
Captain Scott, Dr Edward Wilson, Birdie Bowers, Captain Oates and Taff Evans are not just explorers but also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. Using new source material and interviews with surviving relatives, this group biography of Kathleen Scott, Oriana Wilson, Emily Bowers, Caroline Oates and Lois Evans reveals the lives, loves and losses of five women shaped by the unrelenting culture of Empire and forced into the public eye by tragedy.
Offering a fascinating window into a lost age, MacInnes reveals the five heroes, not as the caricatures of legend, but as the real people they were.
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