The local author discusses his Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13. The book is based on events during the famous 1910 misadventures of Capt. Robert Scott already documented in The Worst Journey in the World by expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard, considered one of the world’s great survival tales. BRIAN MILLER

Wed., Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m., 2008