Classics modern fiction non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the
Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. In the summer of 1910
a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott
an Englishman left London in his ship the Terra Nova and began the long journey south. Five
days later another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen a
Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth and it is a long hard journey over
the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travellers never returned home. This is the story of
Scott and Amundsen and of their famous and dangerous race. CEFR A1 A2 Word count 5 400
