Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Scott's Last Expedition, Vol. 2 of 2: Being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition
Cherry-garrard's Diary - Brushing down the Tent - The Barrier Edge - Ice Waves of the Barrier - Bowers' Meteoro logical Record - Remarkable Aurora - Clothes Frozen Hard - Lowest Temperature Recorded - Between Mt. Terror and Pressure Ridges - Absence of Tide Crack - Revised Rations Approaching the Knoll - Site of the Hut - Building the Hut High Winds - Among the Pressure Ridges - The Hut Rooted in - Through Hole and Gully - At the Emperor Rookery The Penguins' Eggs - Night in the Igloo - The Tent Blown Away - The Stove Fails - The Roof Goes - Recovery of the Tent - Unsheltered in the Storm - Little Gear Lost Personal Sufferings - Pressures and Crevasses Again - The Sense of Destiny - Past Terror Point - The Barrier Shudder - Clearer Surface and Warmer Marching - Hut Point Again - Back at Cape Evans - State of the sleeping-bags - Daily Routine - The Hardest Journey on Record.
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