This account of the race between Scott and Amundsen has an amazing amount of factual material and could be riveting if it hadn't been so full of prejudice and blatant dislike for Scott.There is no queston Scott was not as prepared as he should have been and is to be held in some degree acountable for the deaths of his men, but the author's undisguised reviling of the man and near heroic worship of Amundsen (who was no doubt better prepared than Scott) makes the reading annoying to the point of exasperation at times.