#NEVERFORGET ahem
#JUSTICE4THEFOOTNOTES
I have read it, yes -- it was linked in the original EVEN LONGER version but in the end I moved the link to one of the not-yet-installed footnotes. Gran essentially says that Scott was a great ma...
I wonder if you've read Huntford’s original interview with Tryggve Gran? It can be read from the jpg's here: http://thosewhodared.blogspot.jp/2010/10/tryggve-gran-interview-with-roland.html The...
I lent my copy of Spufford to my sister ages ago -- must get it back and reread while I'm working on the footnotes. My immediate response is that yes, these two species of obligation and narrativ...
What do you make of Francis Spufford's line that the expedition was driven by conflict between the scientists, for whom the trip to the pole was a silly propaganda curlicue, and Markham & Scott, ...
(Just to be clear, Amundsen didn't actually set foot on the North Pole, he flew over it in an airship: but all prior claims -- the by-foot visits of Cooke and Peary, Byrd's overflight -- are now ...
The Scott/Amundsen comparison shows the importance of getting your publicity right. Scott was lucky to have Cherry-Garrard to write his epitaph. Cherry-Garrard ought not to have been there at all...
I haven't actually heard this, but they were plugging it endlessly on the World Service, but the summary suggests a counter-r...
"The Norwegians treated it as a ski-race, a sporting event they’d invented;" Also inventing sport is another British job... (OK have skim read all now, will read properly later and comment.)
Apologies for not having read more than the first eighteen paragraphs yet, but what fascinated me about Scott is how he became a hero of Empire, much like say Livingstone, for the qualities which...
I imagine I'll be tweaking this here and there over the next few days! The footnotes are still a mess and won't be sorted for a week or three at the earliest: many are just citations, but a few s...