Katherine MacInness - Snow Widows
Katherine MacInness presents a remarkable retelling of Scott's fatal Antarctic expedition by the women left behind.
About Katherine MacInness - Snow Widows
Robert Falcon Scott and the men of his polar expedition were heroes of their age, but they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers.
Now for the first time, and with unprecedented access to family archives, Katherine MacInnes retells the story of the race for the South Pole from the perspective of the five women whose lives would be forever changed by it.
Kathleen Scott, the fierce young wife of the expedition leader campaigned relentlessly for Scott’s reputation, Oriana Wilson, a true help-mate and partner to the expedition’s doctor, was a scientific mind in her own right and understood more than most what the men faced in Antarctica, Emily Bowers and her son Birdie were ‘more than just mother and son’, they were firm friends, The indomitable Caroline Oates came to openly snubs the king’s invitations to celebrate the expedition and the man who ‘killed [her] son’ and Lois Evans led a harder life than the other women, constantly on the edge of poverty and forced endure the media’s classist assertions that her husband, the sole ‘Jack Tar’ in a band of officers, must have been responsible for the party’s downfall.
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