The men of Captain Scott's Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships on behalf of the Empire they served by reaching the South Pole. But they were also husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers, and so here Katherine MacInnes tells their story from the perspective of the women whose lives would be forever changed by it. As this history reveals, they included a sculptor, a scientist, a missionary, and a highly proper Edwardian lady, but also the wife of a sailor falsely blamed for the expedition's failure.