Cover of The Coldest Place on Earth: 400 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library)

The Coldest Place on Earth: 400 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library)

In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south, carrying Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian.

Genre
adventure
Audience
adult
Length
short · 64 pages

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