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.
| Words | Im just going outside and |
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