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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
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Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

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Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
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I was a very small boy when I first read the story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed expedition to the South Pole. Five years old, no more; my mother and father had just bought the World Book Encyclopedia, which I ran through, and I still have it, because there was nothing like its maps and its intelligent but child-friendly descriptions of every…

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