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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.

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