Journals : Captain Scott's last expedition /

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Author / Creator:	Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912, author.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subject:	Scott, Robert Falcon, -- 1868-1912 -- Diaries. Scott, Robert Falcon, -- 1868-1912. Terra Nova (Ship) Terra Nova (Ship) British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition -- (1910-1913) British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition -- (1910-1913) Discoveries in geography -- British. Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- British. South Pole -- Discovery and exploration -- British. Antarctica. Antarctica -- South Pole. Diaries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11264642

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Other authors / contributors:	Jones, Max, editor.
ISBN:	9780191516672 0191516678 0192803336 0199297525 9780199297528 9780192803337
Notes:	Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (pages xlix-liii) and index. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Captain Scott's own account of his tragic race with Roald Amundsen for the South Pole thrilled the world in 1913. This new edition of his Journals publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication. - ;'For God's sake look after our people'. Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the trek with ponies and dogs across the ice to the.
Other form:	Print version: Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912. Journals, Captain Scott's last expedition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Composition and Publication History; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Robert Falcon Scott and Scott's Last Expedition; SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION; CHAPTER I: THROUGH STORMY SEAS; CHAPTER II: IN THE PACK; CHAPTER III: LAND; CHAPTER IV: SETTLING IN; CHAPTER V: DEPÔT LAYING TO ONE TON CAMP; CHAPTER VI: ADVENTURE AND PERIL; CHAPTER VII: AT DISCOVERY HUT; CHAPTER VIII: HOME IMPRESSIONS AND AN EXCURSION; CHAPTER IX: THE WORK AND THE WORKERS; CHAPTER X: IN WINTER QUARTERS: MODERN STYLE; CHAPTER XI: TO MIDWINTER DAY
CHAPTER XII: AWAITING THE CROZIER PARTYCHAPTER XIII: THE RETURN OF THE SUN; CHAPTER XIV: PREPARATIONS: THE SPRING JOURNEY; CHAPTER XV: THE LAST WEEKS AT CAPE EVANS; CHAPTER XVI: SOUTHERN JOURNEY: THE BARRIER STAGE; CHAPTER XVII: ON THE BEARDMORE GLACIER; CHAPTER XVIII: THE SUMMIT JOURNEY TO THE POLE; CHAPTER XIX: THE RETURN FROM THE POLE; CHAPTER XX: THE LAST MARCH; Appendix; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Names; Index;

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