CAPTAIN OATES by Sue Limb, Patrick Cordingley ( 9781848840881 )

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Title:

CAPTAIN OATES

By:

Sue Limb, Patrick Cordingley

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Paperback

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1848840888

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9781848840881

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Publisher:

PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

20 August, 2009

Pages:

256

Description:

This ed. originally published: London: Leo Cooper, 1995.

Synopsis:

'I am just going outside and may be some time.' With these words, on 17 March 1912, Captain Oates walked out to his death in an Antarctic blizzard and won a place for himself in history as 'a very gallant gentleman'. His reputation for courage and endurance as one of the members of Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole is as powerful today as it was almost a century ago. Yet, as Sue Limb and Patrick Cordingley reveal in this new edition of their classic biography of the man, there is much more to Captain Oates's life than his final famous act of self-sacrifice. Their work is, as Sir Ranulph Fiennes noted, a 'fascinating character study of a quintessential British hero'.

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