Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. His latest work is Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, and he has an article called "Greater Glory" in the June issue of Scientific American on the little-known scientific expedition aspect of the race to the South Pole between Scott and Roald Amundsen. On May 23rd Larson was in New York City to lecture at the Explorer's Club; we got together just before his talk. At the conclusion of the interview, I will tell you how to access his Scientific American article on the Web at no charge for a limited time.

Steve: Well, the story has everything in it. It's got adventure, it's got, unfortunately, tragedy, it has this, kind of, incipientabout the South Pole, and they know a little bit about the story, because it has lived on. But interestingly, when if you're old enough, you do remember Scott as a hero because that was the legend that was created out of England, because they wanted heroes. But by the later part of the 20th century especially after a book called Scott and Amundsen went back and looked it over again, they began then to view Scott that he was a bungler, that he had insisted in man hauling, pulling the sledges himself, while the Norwegian sailed down there with dogs, had an easy trip down and back, very efficient and very well run. Shackleton, who was a rival in the entire enterprise, his star rose; he became