By David Yelverton

Based on over 15 years of research, Antarctica Unveiled tells the story of Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic expedition, an expedition that has largely been erased from public perception by the mass attention devoted to the drama of his last expedition.

David E Yelverton first recounts the half-century of campaigning that led to a pan-European assault on the unknown continent at the dawn of the 20th century. The book takes the reader along on the Discovery Expedition into the terrain that faced Scott and his companions as they led parties into the unknown - and often dauntingly mountainous - territory to bring back the data and specimens that launched a century of research. Moreover, Yelverton analyses the inexorable factors that governed Scott's conduct of the expedition and contrasts the poignant erosion of his hopes with the achievement of goals - proof that the Antarctic Continent existed and the location of the South Magnetic Pole - to which the expedition's patrons attached their greatest hopes.

The book concludes with an account of the buildup of the race for the Pole that was the almost inevitable aftermath of Scott's achievement. Illustrated with more than 40 remarkable black-and-white photographs, Antarctica Unveiled is a must for the armchair traveller, historian and Antarctic enthusiast.

Published: 2000 by University Press of Colorado, USA

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By - Sue Limb & Patrick Cordingley

Now in paperback, a biography of Captain Oates, who is best remembered as the man who walked willingly to his death on the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole led by Captain Scott, in order that his comrades might have a better chance to survive.

Published: 1982 by Pen & Sword

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By Ranulph Fiennes

The real story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived by the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".

Published: 2003 by Hodder & Stoughton, London

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By Isobel Williams

Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captain Scott's 'giant worker' and his 'invaluable assistant'. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Expeditions of the early 1900s - The Discovery expedition of 1901 and the Terra Nova expediton in 1910 - distinguishing himself on both. In 1903, with Scott, Edgar made the first long and arduous sortie onto the Plateau of Victoria Land. The journey highlighted Edgar's common sense, strength, courage, wit and unflappability. Thus it came as no surprise when, in 1911, Edgar was chosen by Scott to be one of the five men to go on the final attempt at the South Pole.

Published: 2012 by The History Press Ltd

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By David M. Wilson

The life of Edward Wilson

Also available in hardback - Limited Edition of 500 - £40 signed by the authors.

Published: 2000 by Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, England

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By Sara Wheeler

Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. The temperature fell to seventy below, it was dark all the time, his teeth shattered in the cold and the tent blew away. 'But we kept our tempers,' Cherry wrote, 'even with God.'

This is the first biography of Cherry. Sara Wheeler, who has travelled extensively in the Antarctic, has had unrestricted access to new material and the full cooperation of Cherry's family.

Published: 2001 by Vintage, London, England

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By Susan Solomon

Scott's fatal antarctic expedition.

Published: 2001 by Yale University Press, New Haven and London

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By Peter Speak

Frank Debenham - 'Deb' to all who knew him - was one of the yougest members of Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-1913. Largely overlooked by history, he was nevertheless at the heart of that great adventure, during which he had his own life-threatening experiences. He was destined to go on to far greater things, for which he was awarded both the OBE and the Polar Medal, and to make his mark indelibly on Cambridge history. This thoroughly researched account is supported by illuminating extracts of correspondence, as well as numerous photographs and maps, some published here for the first time.

Published: 2008 by Polar Publishing Limited, Guildford, Surrey, UK

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By David Wilson and J. V. Skelton

500 images from one of the great heroic age Antarctic Expeditions with diary quotations from Chief Engineer R.A. Skelton and Dr E.A Wilson.
All Royalties will be donated to support the work of the Scott Polar Research Institute.

Published: 2001 by Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, England

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By Richard Jopling

Apsley Cherry-Garrard was the youngest member of Captain Scott's fateful last expedition. While the returning Scott and his two companions lay freezing to death in the bitter Antarctic winter, young "Cherry" was detailed to see if he could find them and help them back to base.

His failure to press on and find them, despite their relative proximity, left him with a sense of guilt which affected him and his relationships for the remainder of his life.

Published: 2012 by YouCaxton Publications

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By Michael Smith

First biography for over 30 years of the enigmatic and private Captain Oates.

Published: 2002 by Spellmount, Staplehurst, Kent

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By Frank Debenham

Stories of Scott's Last Expedition.

Published: 2001 by The Erskine Press

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By Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. This new edition publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication. In his Introduction Max Jones illuminates the Journals' writing and publication, Scott's changing reputation, and the continued attraction of heroes in our cynical age.

Published: 2006 by Oxford University Press

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By Jones Max

Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Captain Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age.

Published: 2003 by Oxford University Press

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By Heather Lane, Naomi Boneham and Robert D Smith (Editors)

In the final days of March 1912, Captain Robert Scott, Dr Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers were stranded by a fierce blizzard in their tent just 18km (11 miles) from safety. Knowing that they would not survive, they each wrote letters to their families and friends saying a last farewell. When the search party found the tent in November 1912, their letters were duly discovered and duly delivered.

The letters all tell of the courage and fortitude of the three men but none are more telling and poignant than that Scott addressed to his wife, Kathleen. He had started the letter some days before, when he knew that the situation was bad but not yet fatal. However, once he realised that the situation was desperate, the tone changes to one of great courage and fortitude - there can be few letters in existence that convey so much. Scott wrote the words, To My Widow, at its head.

Over the years many of the letters have made their way into the archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Thus reunited, together with others that have disappeared or are still in private hands, they are published here in full for the first time.

Published: 2012 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Meredith Hooper

Through the eyes of the men involved Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance, which has often been overshadowed by the tragedy that befell Scott.
Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished and the ship had failed to pick them up as planned. Gale force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter. Stranded and desperate, Lieutenant Victor Campbell and his five companions faced disaster. They burrowed inside a snowdrift, digging out an ice-cave with no room to stand upright, but space for six sleeping bags. Mutual suffering made them indivisible and somehow they made it through the longest winter. A birthday was celebrated with a carefully hoarded biscuit and they sang hymns every Sunday, so what kept these men going?
Working from diaries, journals and letters written by expedition members Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story of Scott’s other expedition.

Published: 2010 by John Murray (Publishers)

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By David M. Wilson

Until now the legend of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's fatal Terra Nova expedition has been based upon his diaries and those of his companions, the sketches of his friend, Edward Wilson and the celebrated photographs of Herbert Ponting, the expedition's professional photographer. What has not been recognised is that during the final, fateful months of that polar journey the principal visual record intended to be left to posterity was provided by Scott himself through his own photography.

Confronted with extreme climatic conditions and technical challenges, Scott achieved a series of iconic images remarkable for their technical mastery as well as for their poignancy, breathtaking panoramas of the continent; superb depictions of mountains and formations of ice and snow; and action photographs of the explorers and their animals on the polar trail. At first these photographs were fought over, then neglected, and finally lost for more than half a century. Now, for the first time, they are resurrected, accurately attributed and catalogued and publicly shown as they were intended to be almost one hundred years ago.

Published: 2011 by Little Brown Book Publishers

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By Ross MacPhee

One hundred years ago, the ambitions of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen collided in near-simultaneous quests to claim the South Pole, the outcome of which was grand achievement mingled with bitter tragedy and selfless heroism, yielding one of the most powerful and moving stories in the history of exploration.

Published: 2011 by Natural History Museum

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By Michael C. Tarver

This is the story of one of Britain's most famous expedition ships put together from accounts recorded by men who sailed in her. It covers a sixty year history of the ship built at Dundee by a famous Scottish shipbuilding company for the late 19th century days of whaling and sealing before coal gas and electricity took over from animal oils in domestic and commercial use. 'Terra Nova' operated from her own port of Dundee and afterwards St. John's, Newfoundland, when a sea-going career in the sealfishery during those times brought a hard way of life with many human losses and tragedies.

Foreword by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal.

Published: 2006 by Pendragon Maritime Publications - Brixham

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By Bryan Lintott

This is the programme distributed at the Scott Commemorative Service at St Paul's Cathdral on 29th march 2012 describing current research being carried out in Anarctica with a foreword by HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne and the Prime Minister David Cameron.

Published: 2012 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Sue Blackhall

Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 - 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17th January 1912, only to find that they has been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.

Sue Blackhall reassesses his life and the causes of the disaster that ended his and his comrades' lives, and the extent of Scott's personal culpability.

Published: 2012 by Pen & Sword

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By David Crane

A biography of Scott's life and naval career and his subsequent achievements.Scott's voice echoes through the pages in his breathtaking descriptions of the Antarctic landscape and honest, heartfelt letters and diaries.

Published: 2005 by Harper Collins Publishers

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By Anthony M. Johnson

The Foreword to the book has been written by Sir Peter Scott, Scott's son.

"This monograph makes a welcome addition to our knowledge of Capt. Scott's second Antarctic Expedition - The British Antarctic Expedition (1910). For the first time due attention has been accorded to the role of Cardiff in the fortunes of the Expedition. The Cardiff Docksmen provided support for the enterprise on a scale quite unmatched by any town or group.

In this well researched study, it is suggested that without the support which derived from Cardiff, the Expedition would not have sailed, let alone have achieved the fame and fascination which its tragic ending continues to arouse. In recognition of Cardiff's special contribution to the Expedition, Capt Scott designated Cardiff as the port to which the Terra Nova would return at the end of her voyage.

Throughout the course of a careful examination of the unique connection between Cardiff and the British Antarctic Expedition (1910), there emerges much valuable information about the Docks and Civic communities in Cardiff in the early 1900s.".

Published: 2006 by The Captain Scott Society, Cardiff

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By Beau Riffenburgh

Robert Falcon Scott's British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition included some of the most famous events in polar history. Beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen, the tragic deaths of Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Evans on the return journey still resonate today. The Terra Nova expedition was also one of the first great scientific efforts in the Antarctic; its Northern Party spent the harshest winter in the history of exploration; and the first long trek executed in mid-winter was so terrible that it became known as "the worst journey in the world". This booklet examines the context and events of that fateful expedition.

Published: 2011 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Henry Robertson Bowers

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Trim Size: 180 x 130mm. Extent 96pp. Paper: 175g Somerset Book Soft White
Binding: Hardback, section sewn, quarter leather.
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Scott Polar Research Institute/Hand & Eye Letterpress

The Author
Henry Robertson Bowers was one of the five members of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Polar party, who made an heroic attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in March 1912. Scott had come to rely on Bowers’ meticulous planning, physical toughness and dauntless spirit. Seven months before the Pole journey, Bowers had proved himself an asset to the expedition, as one of the three-man team which survived a perilous mission to collect Emperor penguin eggs from Cape Crozier, an undertaking dubbed “The Worst Journey in the World” by fellow team member Apsley Cherry-Garrard.

The Journals
Throughout his time on Scott’s expedition, Bowers kept a meticulous diary, which recorded not only the events of each day, but also his own thoughts, hopes and fears. These journals have never before been published. The Scott Polar Research Institute is proud to announce that they will finally be available in a beautifully produced letterpress edition, limited to 200 copies.

Published: 2012 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Robert Falcon Scott

The South Polar Times was a magazine created by members of Captain Scott’s two expeditions to entertain themselves during the four months of Antarctic winter. Typed up, and illustrated with paintings, sketches and photographs, each issue was read aloud to all hands. They contain a mixture of the ‘grave and gay’, serious reports on the weather or fauna interspersed with cartoons, songs and articles that poke fun at members of the expedition. Together the material gives us an unsurpassed sense of their community.

There were four volumes in all (two expeditions with two winters) each with four issues. The original Volumes 1 and II from the Discovery expedition were given to the Royal Geographical Society and were both published in 1907 (250 copies of each), but after the Terra Nova expedition only Volume III was published (300 copies) in 1914. The original is in the British Library along with Scott’s diary. Volumes I, II and III were republished in 2002. The manuscript for Volume IV is held in the Scott Polar Research Institute and was published for the first time in 2010 by John Bonham, in an edition uniform with the 2002 set, with Ann Savours' masterly introduction to all four volumes.

Published: 2010 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Pamela Davis

Booklet from the Cambridge Review, November 1996.

Published: 1996 by The Cambridge Review, Cambridge, UK

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By Robert F Scott

"When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind .... Scott's mind was like a wax to receive an impression and like marble to retain it." So wrote Leonard Huxley, and he was not alone in his opinion. When this account of Scott's first Antarctic expedition appreared in 1905 the reviewers recognised it as a masterpiece and the first printing sold out immediately.
Scott is best known for his doomed last expedition in 1912, but it was this earlier voyage that truly began the opening up of the Antarctic continent and laid the groundwork for the 'Heroic Age' of Antarctic exploration.

Published: 2009 by

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By H.G.R King

The Antarctic Diary of Victor Campbell. History has rarely accorded as much attention to a single expedition as that given to the Terra Nova expedition 1910-13 led by Captain R.F Scott. The death of the Pole party and the success of Amundsen and his men has always been the main focus of interest - but what of the rest of Scott's men? In 1910 Scott sent six men, the Northern Party, under the command of Lieutenant Victor Campbell. The acquisition of Campbell's papers now allows a second account to be presented of that dreadful winter.

Published: 0 by Bluntisham Books, Huntingdon, England

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By Isobel Williams

"In March 1912, in a tent on the bitter Antarctic wasteland, three men lay dying slowly, overcome by malnutrition, dehydration and hypothermia. Outside the tent a blizzard howled." So begins Isobel Williams' enthralling biography of the enigmatic explorer, artist and scientist, Edward Wilson. Born in 1872, Edward Wilson was Junior Surgeon and Vertebrate Zoologist on the British Antarctic Expedition of 1901-4, and Chief of Scientific staff on Captain Scott's last ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1910-12. The only officer with Scott on both expeditions, he formed an extremely close and influential partnership with him and became his loyal confidant. Here, for the first time, a full biography of the man who Captain Scott once wrote: "How truly grateful I am to have such a man with me."

The hardback version is also available at £20.

Published: 2008 by The History Press Ltd

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By Apsley Cherry-Garrard

This is the story of Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic. The author, the youngest member of Scott's British Antarctic Expedition, relates the expeditions departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913.

Published: 2003 by Pimlico, London

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