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Robert Scott was a hard man, hard-bitten and harddriving. He trained himself to endure hardships. The implacable oppositions of Nature roused in him cold furies of combat. Educated at Stubbington House School, he got into the Navy, quickly made his abilities apparent, was rapidly promoted. At the turn of the Century he was named commander of the National Antarctic Expedition, set out in the Discovery with Shackleton among his men. They discovered King Edward VII Land, were frozen in for nearly two years off Ross Island, learned what scurvy meant. In the following years Captain Scott commanded three...
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