Cold comfort
Jun 09, 2022
1 minute
Snow Widows: Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Lives of the Women They Left Behind by Katherine MacInnes William Collins, 512 pages, £25
The names of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Captain “Laurie” Oates, “Birdie” Drawing on archival research and imagination, each woman’s story is traced to compelling and unsettling effect.
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