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Scott's Last Expedition: Being The Journals of Captain R. F. Scott

1913rif. 956Z10London: Smith Elder Co 1913. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". None stated. The second edition of this important official account of the renowned expedition to the geographic South Pole lead by Captain Robert Falcon Scott written from Scott's own journals and heavily illustrated throughout. The second edition printed the same year as the first edition. Illustrated with photogravure monochrome frontispieces six original sketches in photogravure by Dr E. A. Wilson eighteen coloured plates sixteen from drawings by Dr. Wilson two hundred and sixty full-page and smaller illustrations from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition two panoramas from photographs by Herbert G. Ponting and two folding maps with the errata slip tipped in to volume I. Collated complete. The official account of the famed expedition to Antarctica lead by Captain Robert Falcon Scott written by Leonard Huxley and Sir Clements R. Markham. The work was compiled from the journals of Captain Scott and the scientific reports undertaken by Dr E. A Wilson. The expedition aimed to continue the scientific work they had started during their previous expedition with the hopes of being the first people to reach the geographic South Pole. The Expedition met a tragic end with Scott and his party dying on the return journey from the Pole with their journals and photographs being found later by a search party. In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with minimal rubbing to the extremities and joints and the odd very small closed tear to the head and tails of the spines and slight bumping to the extremities. Minimal spotting to the endpapers with owner's signature to the front free endpaper. Internally binding strained between pp.112 and113 with two plates disbound but present otherwise firm. Pages generally bright with light scattered spotting throughout and the odd very minor tidemark to the odd plate. Very Good Smith, Elder Co hardcover

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Scott's Last Expedition. Volume I & II.

1913rif. FB5350(1&2) /7Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board. Dimensions are for one volume. A rare account of Scott's last expedition. TWO VOLUMES. Large 8vo. Bound in original blue cloth gilt. Deckled edges. Occasional foxing but otherwise a very good set. 1913 inscriptions on first free endpapers and embossed address on half title of Vol. II. Illustrated by 8 photogravures 6 with tissue guards captioned in red including 2 portrait frontispieces 18 watercolours 2 folding panoramas 3 double page plates 176 black and white sepia etc. pages of photographic plates 2 tipped in facsimiles 3 leaves 8 folding maps including one in colour and text figures and tables. The narrative of Scott's Southern Party is contained in Vol. I. Vol. II includes the Winter Journey to Cape Crozier the narratives of the Northern Party and Western Journeys the Last Year at Cape Evans the Ascent of Erebus the Voyages of the Terra Nova and various scientific reports covering geology physics meteorology and biology. Extensively illustrated with maps and over two hundred pages of plates including the sketches and watercolours of Dr. Wilson and the photographs and panoramas of Herbert Ponting. Second edition of Vol. II published in the same year as the first. Scott writing his journal in Scott's Hut at Cape Evans 7 October 1911 Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO 6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912 was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13. On the first expedition he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912 less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. A planned meeting with supporting dog teams from the base camp failed despite Scott's written instructions and at a distance of 162 miles 261 km from their base camp at Hut Point and approximately 12.5 miles 20.1 km from the next depot Scott and his companions died. When Scott and his party's bodies were discovered they had in their possession the first Antarctic fossils ever discovered. The fossils were determined to be from the Glossopteris tree and proved that Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. Before his appointment to lead the Discovery expedition Scott had a career as a naval officer in the Royal Navy. In 1899 he had a chance encounter with Sir Clements Markham the president of the Royal Geographical Society and thus learned of a planned Antarctic expedition which he soon volunteered to lead. Having taken this step his name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic the field of work to which he remained committed during the final 12 years of his life. Following the news of his death Scott became a celebrated hero a status reflected by memorials erected across the UK. However in the last decades of the 20th century questions were raised about his competence and character. Commentators in the 21st century have regarded Scott more positively after assessing the temperature drop below −40 °C −40 °F in March 1912 and after re-discovering Scott's written orders of October 1911 in which he had instructed the dog teams to meet and assist him on the return trip hardcover

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