A Scientist Seeks to Redeem the Reputation of Robert Scott, Antarctica's Lost Son

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

At the edge of Antarctica, on the shore of a wind-scoured cove, lies a weathered hut inhabited by ghosts.

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