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Title: The Voyages of Captain Scott
Retold from 'The Voyage of the "Discovery"' and 'Scott's
Last Expedition'

Author: Charles Turley

Release Date: January 7, 2006 [EBook #6721]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN SCOTT ***

Produced by Robert J. Hall

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[Illustration: Captain Robert F. Scott R.N.

_J. Russell & Sons, Southsea, photographers_]

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THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN SCOTT

_Retold from 'The Voyage of the "Discovery"' and 'Scott's Last
Expedition'_

BY CHARLES TURLEY

Author of 'Godfrey Marten, Schoolboy,' 'A Band of Brothers,' etc.

With an introduction by

SIR J. M. BARRIE, BART.

Numerous illustrations in colour and black and white and a map

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE VOYAGE OF THE 'DISCOVERY'

Chapter
I. The 'Discovery'.
II. Southward Ho!
III. In Search of Winter Quarters.
IV. The Polar Winter.
V. The Start of the Southern Journey.
VI. The Return.
VII. A Second Winter.
VIII. The Western Journey.
IX. The Return from the West.
X. Release.

THE LAST EXPEDITION

Chapter
Preface to 'Scott's Last Expedition'.
Biographical Note.
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910.
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I. Through Stormy Seas.
II. Depot Laying to One Ton Camp.
III. Perils.
IV. A Happy Family.
V. Winter.
VI. Good-bye to Cape Evans.
VII. The Southern Journey Begins.
VIII. On the Beardmore Glacier.
IX. The South Pole.
X. On the Homeward Journey.
XI. The Last March.
Search Party Discovers the Tent.
In Memoriam.
Farewell Letters.
Message to the Public.
Index.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

_PHOTOGRAVURE PLATE_

Portrait of Captain Robert F. Scott
_From a photograph by J. Russell & Son, Southsea_.

_COLOURED PLATES_

_From Water-Colour Drawings by Dr. Edward A. Wilson._.

Sledding.
Mount Erebus