1914 Scott's Last Expedition

Description

An Important Work, Early Edition, Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding

First published by Smith, Elder and Co. in 1913 with this work being the first John Murray edition of the work and the fifth edition overall. 

Complete in two volumes, in the original publisher's cloth.

With a frontispiece to each volume, six sketches in photogravure, eighteen plates, folding plates to the end of each volume, and numerous other illustrations. Collated complete. 

With the bookplate of B. W. Waters to front paste down and a tipped in newspaper clipping regarding the Scott Polar Research institute inauguration at Cambridge.

Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Detailing the Terra Nova Expedition, in which Captain Robert Falcon Scott led a team with the ambition to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. Upon reaching their destination the team realised that a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had beaten them by more than a month. The team of five tragically died during the return from the Pole with the later discovered journals the source material for this work. 

An early edition of this important work of Polar exploration.