Product code: 1913 Book CAPTAIN SCOTT'S MESSAGE TO ENGLAND 1st Ed Softcover deals Antartica Explorer
CAPTAIN SCOTT'S MESSAGE TO ENGLAND; Their Shields are as Bright and Shining as the Snow that Covers their Graves Softcover Publisher: London: St Catherine's Press, 1913 Used. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 32, 4 plates, original grey wrappers 110 years deals old Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. He died with his exploration party later that year.
CAPTAIN SCOTT'S MESSAGE TO ENGLAND; Their Shields are as Bright and Shining as the Snow that Covers their Graves Softcover Publisher: London: St Catherine's Press, 1913 Used. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 32, 4 plates, original grey wrappers 110 years deals old Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. He died with his exploration party later that year.