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Authors: Diana Preston
33
. Quoted by Young, op. cit., pp. 109–110.
34
. Meares, letter to his father.
35
. Ponting,
The Great White South
, p. 2.
36
. Quoted by Young, op. cit., p. 265.
37
. Scott, letters to Kathleen Scott – that on his love for her is quoted by Gwynn, ‘Captain Scott’, p. 161 and is dated Valentine’s Day, 14 February 1910 and that on his socks is dated 1 February 1910.
38
. Quoted by Cecil, op. cit., p. 35.
39
. Scott, letter to his agent Joseph Kinsey, 22 January 1910.
40
. Scott, letter to Kathleen Scott, October 1911.
41
.
Daily Mail
, 12 February 1910.
42
. Wilson,
Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic
, 22 June 1910.
43
. Gran, op. cit., p. 85.
44
. Wright, op. cit., 2 October 1910.
45
. Scott, letter to the President of the Royal Geographical Society, 29 March 1910.
46
. Quoted by Pound,
Scott of the Antarctic
, p. 187.
Chapter Ten – ‘Am Going South, Amundsen’
1
. Bowers, letter to mother, 31 July 1910.
2
. Cherry-Garrard, op. cit., p. 4.
3
. Wright, op. cit., 2 October 1910.
4
. Simpson, Antarctic Journals, 14 August 1910.
5
. Wilson, letter to Scott, 25 June 1910.
6
. Oates, letter to mother, 14 August 1910.
7
. Ibid.
8
. Bowers, letter to his sister, 1 September 1910.
9
. Wright, op. cit., 2 October 1910.
10
. Amundsen, op. cit., Vo. I, p. 42.
11
. Ibid, p. 43.
12
. Scott, quoted by Ludlum,
Captain Scott – The Full Story
, p. 151.
13
. Bowers, letter to his sister, 28 November 1910.
14
. Oates, quoted by S. Limb and P. Cordingley, op. cit., p. 100.
15
. Oates’s letter to mother, 28 November 1910. Bower’s letter, 17 November 1910.
16
. Bowers’s letters to mother – on Mrs Evans, 7 December 1910 and on Mrs Scott, 11 September 1910 and 28 November 1910.
17
. Oates, letter to mother, 23 November 1910.
Chapter Eleven – Stewed Penguin Breast and Plum Pudding
1
. Bowers, letter to sister describing the storm, December 1910.
2
. Evans (Teddy),
Strand Magazine
, 1913.
3
. Bowers, letter to sister describing the storm, December 1910.
4
. Evans, (Edgar), letter to mother, 3 January 1911.
5
. Bowers, letter to sister describing the storm, December 1910.
6
. Cherry-Garrard, diary, 24 December 1910.
7
. Oates, letter to mother, 22 January 1911.
8
. Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 92.
9
. Bruce, Wilfred, quoted by Pound, op. cit., p. 221.
10
. Scott, letter to mother, 25 January 1911.
11
. Scott, letter to Kathleen Scott, 12 January 1911.
12
. Revealing exchange between Oates and Scott, as told by Gran to Huntford who quotes it in
Scott and Amundsen
, p. 367.
13
. Bruce, Wilfred, letter to Kathleen Scott, quoted by Anderson, op. cit., p. 203.
14
. Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 147.
15
. Ibid.
16
. Evans, (Teddy),
Strand Magazine
, 1913.
17
. Quoted by Seaver,
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic
from a discussion between the author and Debenham, p. 230.
18
. Scott, letter to Kathleen Scott, 28 December 1910.
Chapter Twelve – Winter
Unless indicated otherwise, Cherry-Garrard’s description of the Winter Journey contained in
The Worst Journey in the World
is the source for the account of the extraordinary expedition to Cape Crozier.
1
. Debenham, letter to mother, 14 November 1911, quoted by Debenham, op. cit., p. 125.
2
. Amundsen quoted by S. Solomon, op.cit., p. 134.
3
. Wilson, letter to wife, quoted by Seaver in his forward to
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. lxiv.
4
. Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 240.
5
. Wilson, letter to wife, quoted by Seaver as at 2. above.
6
. Bowers, letter to sister describing the Winter Journey, October 1911.
7
. Scott,
Scott’s Last Expedition
, p. 362.
Chapter Thirteen – ‘Miserable, Utterly Miserable’
1
. Bowers, letter to Kathleen Scott, 27 October 1911.
2
. Scott, letter to Kinsey, 28 October 1911.
3
. Oates, letter to mother, 24 October 1911.
4
. Ponting, quoted by Seaver in
Scott of the Antarctic
from a conversation with the author, p. 140.
5
. Oates, diary quoted by S. Limb and P. Cordingley, op. cit., p. 136.
6
. Oates, letter to mother, 24 October 1911.
7
. Oates, letter to mother, 28 October 1911.
8
. Debenham, letter to mother, 14 November 1911, quoted op. cit., p. 125.
9
. Scott, letter to Kathleen Scott, October 1911.
10
. Scott, letter to mother, October 1911.
11
. Scott, letter to Mrs (Edgar) Evans, 28 October 1911.
12
. Scott, letter to Bowers’s mother, October 1911.
13
. Gran, quoted by Huntford in
Scott and Amundsen
on basis of author’s interview with Gran in November 1973, p. 422.
14
. Evans, (Teddy),
South with Scott
, p. 71.
15
. Lashly, quoted by Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 322.
16
.
New Zealand Antarctic Record
, 1985.
17
. Evans, (Teddy),
Strand Magazine
, 1913.
18
. Ibid.
19
. Amundsen, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 63.
20
. Scott, letter to Kathleen Scott, 10 December 1911.
21
. Scott, letter to Kathleen Scott, October 1911.
22
. Amundsen, op. cit., Vol II, p. 122.
23
. Amundsen, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 59.
24
. Lashly, quoted by Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 387.
25
. Scott, letter to Kathleen Scott, 21 December 1911.
Chapter Fourteen – ‘What Castles One Builds’
1
. Wilson, letter to wife, 21 December 1911, quoted by Seaver in
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic
, p. 274.
2
. Lashly, quoted by Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 386.
3
. Bowers, quoted by Teddy Evans in
South with Scott
, p. 203.
4
. Mear and Swan,
In the Footsteps of Scott
, p. 199.
5
. Gran, op. cit., p. 200.
6
. Cherry-Garrard, diary, 4 April 1912.
7
. Oates, letter to mother, 25 October 1911.
8
. Oates, letter to mother, 3 and 4 January 1912.
9
. Cherry-Garrard, diary, 4 December 1912.
10
. Cherry-Garrard, introduction to Seaver’s
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic
, p. xv.
11
. Scott, letter to Kathleen Scott, 3 January 1912.
12
. Cherry-Garrard, introduction to Seaver’s
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic
, p. xxvii.
13
. Fiennes, R.,
To the Ends of the Earth
, p. 255.
14
. Huntford,
Scott and Amundsen
, p. 545. See also an exchange of articles in
Encounter
between Huntford and Wayland Young (Lord Kennet) in 1980 and Louisa Young’s
A Great Task of Happiness
, p. 141.
15
. Young, op. cit., p. 141.
16
. Bowers, letter to mother, 17 December 1912.
17
. Oates, quoted by Limb and Cordingley, op. cit., 18 January 1912.
18
. Amundsen, sledging diary, quoted by Huntford,
Scott and Amundsen
, p. 484, 11 December 1911.
19
. Scott,
Scott’s Last Expedition
, Vol. I, p. 546.
Chapter Fifteen – ‘God Help Us’
1
. Scott,
Scott’s Last Expedition
, Vol. I, p. 547.
2
. Amundsen, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 135.
3
. Scott,
Scott’s Last Expedition
, Vol. I, p. 549.
4
. Stroud,
British Medical Journal
, 1986, pp. 1652–1653.
5
. Amundsen, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 136.
6
. Mear and Swan, op. cit., p. 34 quoting Walton and Bonner
Key Environment Antarctica.
7
. Scott,
Scott’s Last Expedition
, Vol. I, p. 569.
8
. Amundsen, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 138.
9
. Scott,
Scott’s Last Expedition
, Vol. I, p. 571.
10
. Evans, (Edgar), letter to wife, 14 February 1913, quoted by
South Wales Daily Post
.
Chapter Sixteen – ‘Had We Lived’
1
. Pound, op. cit., p. 290.
2
. Shackleton,
The Heart of the Antartic
, Vol. I, p. 363.
3
. Introduction to Wilson’s
Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic
, p. xx.
4
. Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 587.
5
. Ibid.
6
. Scott,
Scott’s Last Expedition
, Vol. I, p. 593.
7
. Wilson, letter to wife, late March 1912.
8
. Bowers, letter to mother, late March 1912.
9
. Anderson, op. cit., p. 207.
Chapter Seventeen – ‘We Have Got To Face It Now’
Following their return from Antarctica, Cherry-Garrard asked Lashly for his recollections of the expedition and for any diaries he had kept. Cherry-Garrard subsequently incorporated Lashly’s vivid accounts into
The Worst Journey in the World
and, unless stated otherwise, all quotations from Lashly in this chapter come from Cherry-Garrard’s book.
1
. Lashly, quoted by Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 404.
2
. Evans, (Teddy), quoted by Pound,
Evans of the Broke
, from an unpublished manuscript, p. 116.
3
. Gran, op. cit., p. 177.
4
. Ibid., p. 182.
5
. Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 497.
6
. Gran, quoted in introduction to Wilson’s
Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic
, p. xxi.
7
. Gran, op. cit., p. 216.
8
. Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 498.
9
. Atkinson, quoted by Teddy Evans,
South with Scott
, p. 254.
Chapter Eighteen – The Reason Why
1
. Scott, Kathleen, quoted in
Polarboken
, 1978; 55–86 (A.G.E. Jones – ‘Scott’s Transport’).
2
. Amundsen, quoted by Thomas, op. cit., p. 233.
3
. The detailed results of Susan Solomon’s research on climate are published in her book,
The Coldest March
) (cf. p. 178 and pp. 286–306 in particular), and in her National Academy of Sciences paper written with Charles Stearn. In a private communication with this author of September 2009, she confirmed that ‘every year I look at the data and the picture hasn’t really changed. The data continues to show how unusual their year was’.
4
. Shaw, letter to Kathleen Scott, 23 March 1923.
5
. Hansen, quoted by Huntford, Scott and Amundsen, p. 563.
6
.
Guardian
, 23 January 1997.
7
. Taylor, op. cit., p. 241.
8
. Rogers, in
Starving Sailors
, edited by Watt, Freeman and Bynum, p. 166.
9
. Stroud,
Shadow on the Wasteland
, p. 99 and Mear and Swan, op. cit. p. 64.
10
. Rogers, in
Starving Sailors
, p. 166.
11
. This is Ranulph Fiennes’ experience, described on p. 285 of his book,
Captain Scott
.
12
. Rogers,
Practitioner
, 1974, 2–12, The Death of Chief Petty Officer Evans.
13
. Rogers, in
Starving Sailors
, p. 172.
14
. The data underlying these calculations is given on p. 216 of Solomon, op. cit.
15
. The quote on Scott’s ability to command circumstances is from his letter to Kathleen, 17 January 1909. The quotes from Cherry-Garrard are from Wheeler, Cherry, p. 105.
16
. Undated letter to Peter Scott.
17
. Undated annotation by Kathleen Scott in the front of her 1913 diary, held among Kennet family papers.
18
. Oates, letter to mother, 28 October 1911 and Bowers, letter of 8 December 1911.
19
. Marshall, quoted by Huntford, Shackleton, p. 220.