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Journals

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199297528

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Journals by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

Features Captain Scott's account of his tragic race with Roald Amundsen for the South Pole thrilled the world in 1913. Captain Scott's account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. This edition includes a list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication.

Herbert Ponting

Author : Anne Strathie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750997058

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Herbert Ponting by Anne Strathie Pdf

Herbert Ponting (1870-1935) was young bank clerk when he bought an early Kodak compact camera. By the early 1900s, he was living in California, working as a professional photographer, known for stereoview and enlarged images of America, Japan and the Russo-Japanese war. In 1909, back in Britain, Ponting was recruited by Captain Robert Scott as photographer and filmmaker for his second Antarctic expedition. In 1913, following the deaths of Scott and his South Pole party companions, Ponting's images of Antarctica were widely published, and he gave innovative 'cinema-lectures' on the expedition. When war broke out, Ponting's offers to serve as a photographer or correspondent were declined, but in 1918 he, Ernest Shackleton and other Antarctic veterans joined a government-backed Arctic expedition. During the economically depressed 1920s and 1930s, Ponting wrote his Antarctic memoir, re-worked his Antarctic films into silent and 'talkie' versions and worked on inventions. Like others, he struggled financially but was sustained by correspondence with photographic equipment magnate George Eastman, a late-life romance with singer Glae Carrodus and knowing that his images of Antarctica had secured his place in photographic and filmmaking history.

Robert Scott, Antarctic Pioneer

Author : William Bixby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UOM:39015015355103

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Robert Scott, Antarctic Pioneer by William Bixby Pdf

A biography stressing the Antarctic expeditions of the explorer who lost his life while returning as loser from the race to the South Pole.

Scott's Last Expedition

Author : Robert Falcon Scott,Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0786703822

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Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott,Beryl Bainbridge Pdf

"In November 1910, the vessel Terra Nova left New Zealand carrying an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman determined to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Scott kept a detailed journal of his adventures until March 29, 1912, when he and the few remaining members of his team met their ends in a brutal blizzard. The daily progress of the expedition toward the pole is recorded in an immensely vivid and personal narrative, depicting the beauty of the Antarctic tundra, the harsh living conditions, and Scott's own desperation to beat rival explorers to the pole."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Scott's Last Journey

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UCSD:31822028801389

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Scott's Last Journey by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

This entirely new edition of explorer Robert F. Scott's journal is a first-hand account of his final, ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1910, with more than 150 never-before-seen photographs.

Scott's Last Expedition - The Personal Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, C.V.O., R.N., on his Journey to the South Pole

Author : R. F. Scott
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447497868

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Scott's Last Expedition - The Personal Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, C.V.O., R.N., on his Journey to the South Pole by R. F. Scott Pdf

Originally published in 1913, this early work contains a fascinating and detailed account of Sir Robert Falcon Scott's journey to the South Pole. Offering a complete collection of Scott's diary entries from his last expedition, this book is unparalleled in its insight and detail. It constitutes a must-read for anyone interested in this famous explorative journey. Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) was an explorer and officer in the British Royal Navy. He famously captained two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the 'Discovery Expedition' of 1901, and the infamous 'Terra Nova Expedition' of 1910. Sir James Matthew Barrie 1860 – 1937) was a Scottish dramatist and author, best remembered for being the creator of "Peter Pan". Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Robert F. Scott

Author : John Riddle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781422289754

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Robert F. Scott by John Riddle Pdf

Robert F. Scott led two British Navy missions to explore Antarctica, each one lasting several years. On his second trip to the Antarctic, Scott and his team made it to the South Pole, but they found a group from Norway had beaten them to it. Though Scott and his team died in the cold on the way back from the South Pole, the British Navy officer and explorer is remembered today for his brave and curious spirit. Learn the story of one of Britain's most famous explorers in Robert F. Scott: British Explorer of the South Pole.

Pilgrims on the Ice

Author : T. H. Baughman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047595965

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Pilgrims on the Ice by T. H. Baughman Pdf

Grade level: 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s.

The Diaries of Captain Robert Scott

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UOM:39015052559252

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The Last Place on Earth

Author : Roland Huntford
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307432360

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Return to Antarctica

Author : Adrian Raeside
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124138442

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Return to Antarctica by Adrian Raeside Pdf

By 1910, the Antarctic was the last place on earth that had never been explored, and British naval officer Robert Scott was obsessed that an Englishman - specifically himself - should conquer the pole. Despite being under-funded, under-equipped and unprepared, Scott sailed south in the antiquated whaling ship, Terra Nova, in what everyone assumed would be a cracking good adventure. The expedition was made up entirely of British adventurers, gadabouts and scientists, the exception being one Canadian, Charles Seymour (Silas) Wright. Born 1887 in Toronto, Charles Wright was studying physics in Cambridge when he heard Scott was looking for a physicist to join the expedition to the pole. By the time Wright inquired, Scott had chosen a physicist for the team but was short a glaciologist. Who else but a Canadian would know about glaciers? Wright became the expedition's glaciologist. Halfway through the rough passage to the Antarctic, Scott got word that a rival explorer, Norwegian Roald Amundsen, was also making a run for the pole and was close on their heels. What started out as a stroll to the South Pole became a race between two very determined and different men. Arriving at their base camp on Cape Evans in January 1911, Scott's team soon discovered they were unprepared for the Antarctic, while equipment failures and food shortages compounded the hardship. For the final race to the pole, Scott stripped the team down to four men, and Wright did not make the cut. Scott reached the geographic South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten them by days. Bitterly disappointed, Scott and his companions returned to base camp, but were caught in a fierce Antarctic blizzard that raged for days. Too weak to pull their sleds and out of food and fuel, they froze to death. Ironically, as if to underscore the litany of errors that dogged the expedition, they perished only a few miles from a cache of food and fuel. Next spring Wright led a search party to look for the remains of Scott and his party, and it was the sharp-eyed Wright who spotted a small patch of green on a snowy landscape - the tent containing Scott and his companions' frozen bodies. Wright returned to England and went on to do even more extraordinary things, including inventing trench wireless in WWI, and working closely with Winston Churchill, developing the technology to assist in the allied invasion of Europe in WWII which included developing the first radar installations and inventing the technology that neutralized German magnetic sea mines After a stint as naval attaché to Washington, D.C., and Director of Scripps Oceanographic institute in La Jolla, California, he retired to Salt Spring Island, BC, passing away in 1975. Typically Canadian, Wright was modest about his accomplishments, with few Canadians aware of his amazing life and the extraordinary impact he had on the 20th century.

The South Pole

Author : Roald Amundsen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547671466

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The South Pole by Roald Amundsen Pdf

The South Pole is a book by Roald Amundsen and it represents an interesting first-hand account of the Norwegian expedition's successful attempt to reach the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen spends a great deal of time talking about logistics and placing of depots in preparation for his polar attempt all the way from the preparation leading up to the initial sea voyage, the voyage itself and then the establishing of a camp at the Antarctic. Although they were lucky with the weather, and Amundsen attributed the success of the expedition to "good luck", it is obvious that the Norwegian expedition was well prepared and ready for the troubles ahead; the equipment, the sledges with well-trained dogs, the supply depots with seal meat at regular intervals along the route, the sunglasses to avoid snow blindness; it was all thought of in advance.

A First Rate Tragedy

Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618002014

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A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston Pdf

Chronicles the ill-fated attempt by explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions to reach the South Pole in 1912.

Voyage of the Discovery

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Nonsuch Publishing, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1845883772

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Voyage of the Discovery by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

A narrative of Captain Scott's expedition to the Antarctic. This book provides a record of various aspects of the expedition which set out from Dundee in 1901, from the realities of daily routine to their wonder at discovering strange landscapes, as well as the trials of harsh weather conditions, food shortages and illness.

Robert Scott in the Antarctic

Author : Philip Sauvain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000021915307

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Robert Scott in the Antarctic by Philip Sauvain Pdf

Recounts the race between Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen to be the first explorers to reach the South Pole, describing Scott's journey in detail, including his death from exhaustion and exposure.