Journals OWC

In January 1912, Britain`s Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had been beaten by Roald Amundsen`s Norwegian expedition. Scott and his companions faced an 850-mile march to safety. All perished on the return. A few months later, a search party found Scott`s body and the journals that told his tragic story.Scott`s own account was published to extraordinary acclaim in 1913. This new edition draws on ninety years of reflection on the Antarctic disaster to illuminate Scott`s journals, publishing for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott`s original text. Drawing on previously unused papers from the John Murray archive, Max Jones tells the story of this remarkable book and charts the changing fortunes of Scott`s reputation. The first fully annotated edition, it also includes appendixes on J. M. Barrie`s Biographical Introduction` and The Finding of the Dead, plus a glossary of names and a full index.The story of Captain Scott and his team is sure to captivate modern readers just as much as it did almost one-hundred years ago.