Scott’s Last Expedition (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Falcon Scott
- First Published: 1913
- Type of Work: Journal of exploration
- Time of Work: 1910-1912
- Setting: Antarctica
- Principal Characters: Captain Robert Scott, R.N.,, Lieutenant Edward R. G. R. Evans, Lieutenant Victor L. A. Campbell, Edward A. Wilson, Captain Laurence E. G. Oates, Lieutenant Henry R. Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Apsley Cherry-garrard, Ernest H. Shackleton, Roald Amundsen
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Diary
- Subjects: Blizzards, Twentieth century, Science or scientists, 1910’s, Exploration or explorers, Antarctica, South Pole
- Locales: Antarctica
The complete isolation and inaccessibility of Antarctica mean that all the literature relating to it falls into an equally self-contained unit. No man is a native of Antarctica, and it is the one part of the globe Western man can truly be said to have discovered; only in 1895 did he land on its shore. Three years later the first men to live through an Antarctic winter led to the Discovery Expedition under Captain Robert Falcon Scott R.N., from 1901 to 1904. The expedition spent two successive winters there. Scott thus became the first name associated with Antarctic living, and he...
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