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Jenny Diski: The Afterlife of Captain Scott, 9 February 2006
Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy in the Extreme South
by David Crane.
HarperCollins, 637 pp., £25, November 2005,0 00 715068 7 Show More
by David Crane.
HarperCollins, 637 pp., £25, November 2005,
“... a roughly ten-year cycle, another assessment came due in 1996 and the old material was viewed by Francis Spufford in his eloquent I May Be Some Time with less animus and a more historically minded cultural analysis, mellowing the harshness of the previous ruling. Scott was perhaps a child of the Romantics, a son of the Sublime, a victim of the need for ... ”