The Worst Journey in the World

Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 136. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 138. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 180⁠–⁠81. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 187⁠–⁠188. Scott started for the Pole on November 1, 1911. Amundsen started on September 8, 1911, but had to turn back owing to low temperatures; he started again on October 19. ↩

Priestley’s diary. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 185. ↩

See here. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 190⁠–⁠191. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 191⁠–⁠192. ↩

Wilson camped with the two dog-teams on the land, and in the morning saw us floating on the ice-floes through his field-glasses. He made his way along the peninsula until he could descend on to the Barrier, where he joined Scott. ↩

I think he was stiff after standing so many hours.

—⁠A. C.-G.

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Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery, vol. i, p. 350. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 201. ↩

Bowers. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 207. ↩

My own diary. ↩

Bowers. ↩

My own diary. ↩

Bowers’ letter. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 604. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 599, 602, 607. ↩

Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. ii, p. 53. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 295. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 432⁠–⁠433. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 597. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 362. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 396. ↩

With Scott: The Silver Lining, Taylor, p. 240. ↩

F. G. Jackson, A Thousand Days in the Arctic, vol. ii, pp. 380⁠–⁠381. ↩

See here. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 4. ↩

See here through here. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 352. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 353. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 353. ↩

See here through here. ↩

A thermometer which registered −77° at the Winter Quarters of H.M.S. Alert on March 4, 1876, is preserved by the Royal Geographical Society. I do not know whether it was screened. ↩

My own diary. ↩

My own diary. ↩

My own diary. ↩

My own diary. ↩

See here through here. ↩

See here. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, p. 42. ↩

Keats. ↩

Bowers. ↩

My own diary. ↩

Bowers. ↩

Wilson in Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, p. 58. ↩

My own diary. ↩

Wilson. ↩

Bowers. ↩

My own diary. ↩

My own diary. ↩

My own diary. ↩

My own diary. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 361. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, p. 293. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, pp. 291⁠–⁠297; written by Lieutenant Evans. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, vol. i, p. 409. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 403. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 404. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 425. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 437. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 429. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 438. ↩

Taylor, with Scott, The Silver Lining, pp. 325⁠–⁠326. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 448. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 449. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 446. ↩

See here, here through here. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 453. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 452. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 438⁠–⁠439. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 450. ↩

Bowers. ↩

Bowers. ↩

My own diary. ↩

Bowers. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 463. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 462. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 461. ↩

Bowers. ↩

Bowers. ↩

Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 465.