I May Be Some Time: The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott - Map and Travel Bookshop

Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

I May Be Some Time: The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott

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.

Categories
Categories

Best Sellers
- The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes
  
  This Monocle book tells us how to turn a house into a home. Both a practical guide and a great source of inspiration, The Monocle Guide Read More »
- Azores Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map
  
  For the best adventures, use the best map. Azores Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map is the most detailed, accurate, toughest, large scale map of these 9 Read More »
- Mantua Global Map Street Plan
  
  Mantua (Mantova) at 1:10,000 on indexed street plan from Litografia Artistica Cartografica. 40 monuments including historic buildings and churches, cultural or educational institutions, and important municipal Read More »
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  
  A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is Read More »
- Looe 1905
  
  Looe in 1905 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history Read More »
- Pacific Lady
  
  It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn`t do such Read More »
- NZ4634 Wellington Harbour Entrance and Plans of Wharves
  
  Plans included:Entrance to Wellington Harbour 1:12,500Evans Bay 1:7,000Point Howard and Seaview Wharves 1:7,000Lambton Harbour 1:7,000Nautical charts for New Zealand, created by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), Read More »
- Altruism: The Science and Psychology of Kindness
  
  The concern for the well-being of others could be the saving grace of the 21st century. Matthieu Ricard`s Altruism, an erudite, brilliantly ranging synthesis of philosophy, Read More »
- SHOM Chart 7067 – De la Chaussรฉe de Sein ร Belle-Ile
  
  PLEASE NOTE: the chart will be ordered for you if not currently in stock. Please allow 1-2 weeks for the chart to reach Stanfords. SHOM charts Read More »
- Admiralty Chart 4150 – Table Bay to False Bay
  
  NEW EDITION OUT ON 05/11/2020Admiralty standard nautical charts comply with Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations and are ideal for professional, commercial and recreational use. Read More »

Most Popular
- Of All That Ends
  
  The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gunter Grass – a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world.Suddenly, in spite Read More »
- SHOM Chart 6645L – Pointe de Penmarc’h, abords de St-Guรฉnolรฉ et de Kรฉrity – Leisure A4 size
  
  LEISURE FORMAT – FOLDED TO A4 SIZE AND PRINTED ON WATER RESISTANT PAPER.PLEASE NOTE: the chart will be ordered for you if not currently in stock. Read More »
- Woippy – Uckange – Vigy IGN 3412SB
  
  Topographic survey of France at 1:25,000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Sรฉrie Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus Read More »
- Jakob`s Colours
  
  Inspired by the lost voices of the Romany Holocaust this heartbreaking and tender novel will appeal to readers who loved Sophie`s Choice, Schindler`s Ark and The Read More »
- Private – Keep Out!
  
  A forgotten classic brought back into print for the first time in decades – the missing literary sister to Anne of Green Gables and Tracy Beaker, Read More »

Our Picks
- Glen Avich
  
  Read More »
- Carinthia F&B
  
  Carinthia at 1:200,000 in a series of road maps from Freytag & Berndt, the country’s leading publishers, with a separate index attached to the cover. Information Read More »
- Prignitz Cyclers Paradise
  
  Potsdam – Havelland on a waterproof, tear-resistant, GPS compatible cycling map at 1:75,000 from the ADFC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club – the official German cycling federation), in Read More »
- M27 Dubrovnik to Bar and Ulcinj
  
  Imray’s series of charts of the Mediterranean are comprehensive and easy-to-use sailing charts published on rip-proof, waterproof paper- ideal for use on small tables or in Read More »
- World War I
  
  This is a dynamic portrait of the world`s greatest human conflict, now in paperback. “World War I” is a dramatic account of the Great War combining Read More »

Monthly Choice
- Discovering London Curiosities
  
  Curiosity is the desire to know or learn, inquisitiveness about trifles or other people`s affairs, a curious matter or investigation, a vanity, a curious detail or Read More »
- L ‘“ Type Binocular/ Tripod adaptor (small)
  
  Allows binoculars with a tripod adaptor bush, to be fitted to any standard photographic tripod, when maximum viewing stability is required. The large adaptor is a Read More »
- Emmeline Pankhurst
  
  In the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet Read More »
- Instructional Chart 5052 – Dover Strait
  
  Admiralty Instructional charts are designed to be used for training. They contain all the features of a standard Admiralty nautical chart. PLEASE NOTE: instructional charts are Read More »
- Prins Karls Forland
  
  One of the titles in the topographic survey of the Svalbard group published in a colour version, available for the western coast, central and southern part Read More »