Author: SCOTT, Robert Falcon.
Title: Scott's last expedition. Volume I. Being the journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Volume II. Being the reports of the journeys & the scientific work undertaken by E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition. Arranged by L. Huxley. With a preface by Cl.R. Markham.
Description: London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1913. 2 volumes. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, uncut. With ca. 300 partly folding maps and photographic plates (18 in colours) by Herbert G. Ponting. XXVI,633; XIV,534 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of Charles Hadfield. - The official account of Scott's second and last polar expedition. This British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13) almost failed on her way south, when the Terra Nova was caught in a terrific storm. Scott finally reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, 33 days after Amundsen's expedition. Scott and the four men with him, Evans, Oates, Bowers, and Wilson, perished on the return trip in 1913. 'Scott kept a diary of the expedition up until his death on or about 29 March 1912. This was published in two volumes in November 1913 as Scott's last expedition, along with supplementary material furnished by other members of the expedition. It ran to innumerable later editions' (Howgego S13). 'It is a harrowing and courageous story, which earned its place in the canons of polar literature' (Stam. Books on ice, p.88). Herbert Ponting, the photographer, made the first moving picture documentary of this Antarctic expedition. 'This is undoubtedly the most known of all Antarctic expeditions and publications' (Taurus Collection 77). - A nice set. Spence 1059; Headland 1440; Conrad p.188.

Keywords: Antarctic Pole