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At the outset of the twentieth century, Antarctica was scarcely explored or understood. Penetrating the pack ice in the purpose-built Discovery, the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-4) established a base in McMurdo Sound, enabling scientists and sledging parties to significantly push back the boundaries of the unknown. Published in 1905, this acclaimed two-volume work by the naval officer and expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) recounts the trials, errors and achievements of an undertaking which laid the foundations for future research and Scott's later journey to the South Pole. The work is greatly enhanced by many photographs as well as illustrations by the doctor, zoologist and artist Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912). Volume 1 traces the expedition's preparatory phases and the voyage from England to Antarctica via New Zealand. Scott discusses the location of winter quarters and the first polar winter. Chapters on sledging conclude the volume.… (plus d'informations)
A truly superb historical account, "Voyage" thoroughly maps all aspects of Scott's voyage, from choosing sled dogs to setting up meteorological equipment, to holing up in a three-man sleeping bag in a snowstorm. Scott is a careful writer, often listing alternatives to his decisions for outfitting an arctic vessel, and then describing why he prefers his own. In fact, this book would prove a valuable manual for the novice polar explorer of the era--Scott is unafraid to recount his failures, and the lessons learned from them, as well as his triumphs. The book is supplemented with Scott's actual diary entries, which reveal him to be a shrewd but compassionate captain, who took his share of the labor and regrets the necessity of harvesting native animals for science and food. An ample assortment of photographs and drawings illustrate the book, even offering an astonishingly clear image of the ship's cats! A few things may raise the hair of a modern reader--the minstrel show and frequent use of the N-word being one of them--but this further fleshes out the painstakingly clear account Scott has created--one which often seems more like a porthole into another time.
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To Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S. / the father of the expedition / and its most constant friend
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A bibliography of the Arctic Regions would occupy a largevolume; that of the Antarctic Regions compiled by Dr. H. R. Mill in 1901 contained 878 references, and included all books, pamphlets, and maps even remotely touching the subject that had been published in any country.
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Till then they had deemed that the Austral earth / With a long unbroken shore / Ran on to the Pole Antarctic, / For such was the old sea lore. - Rennell Rodd
Ere long we will launch / A vessel as goodly, strong, and staunch / As ever weathered a wintry sea. - Longfellow
They saw the cables loosened, they saw the gangways cleared, / They heard the women weeping, they heard the men who cheered. / Far off - far off the tumult faded and died away, / And all alone the sea and wind came singing up the Bay. - Newbolt
In fog and heavy weather, / Through wildering sleet and snow, / We fought the ice together, / On a track where no ships go. - Anon.
She skirts the icy margin of the main, / And where unchanging from the first of time / Snows swell on snows amazing to the sky, / And icy mountains high on mountains pil'd / Seem to the shivering sailor from afar / Shapeless and white, an atmosphere of cloud. - Thomson
Beholde I see the haven near at hand / To which I mean my wearie course to bend; / Vere the main sheet and bear up to the land / The which afore is fairly to be ken'd. - Spenser, Faerie Queene
Experience be a jewel that we have / Purchased at an infinite rate. - Shakespeare
The cold ice slept below, / Above the cold sky shone, // And all around // With a chilling sound / From caves of ice and fields of snow / The breath of night like death did flow // Beneath the sinking moon. - Shelley
Much more in this great work should we survey / The plot of situation, and its model, / Question surveyors, know our estate, / How able such a work to undertake. - Shakespeare
By mutual confidence and mutual aid / Great deeds are done and great discoveries made. - Anon.
'Tis a weary round to which we are bound, / The same thing over and over again; / Much toil and trouble. - Lindsay Gordon
And the deed of high endeavour / Was no more to the favoured few, / But brain and heart were the measure / Of what every man might do. - Rennel Rodd
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It is not conceivable, therefore, that any party wintering in the Antarctic Regions will have great difficulty in providing themselves with fresh food; and, as we have proved, where such conditions exist there need be no fear of the dreaded word 'scurvy.'
At the outset of the twentieth century, Antarctica was scarcely explored or understood. Penetrating the pack ice in the purpose-built Discovery, the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-4) established a base in McMurdo Sound, enabling scientists and sledging parties to significantly push back the boundaries of the unknown. Published in 1905, this acclaimed two-volume work by the naval officer and expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) recounts the trials, errors and achievements of an undertaking which laid the foundations for future research and Scott's later journey to the South Pole. The work is greatly enhanced by many photographs as well as illustrations by the doctor, zoologist and artist Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912). Volume 1 traces the expedition's preparatory phases and the voyage from England to Antarctica via New Zealand. Scott discusses the location of winter quarters and the first polar winter. Chapters on sledging conclude the volume.
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