[There is a considerable difference in the lengths of the British and American first editions of these diaries which I’ve been unable to unravel or understand. Paginations below are from the London edition.]
Scott’s Last Expedition. In Two Volumes. Vol. I Being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O. Vol. II. Being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson, and the Surviving Members of the Expedition,
Scott, Robert Falcon. Arranged by Leonard Huxley, with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. London: Smith Elder, 1913.
- 1910-14 British National Antarctic Expedition (Scott on Terra Nova).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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The Voyage of the Discovery.
Scott, Robert Falcon. First published London: Smith Elder, 1905.
- 1901-04 British National Antarctic Expedition (Scott aboard Discovery).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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[A new edition with introduction by E.C. Coleman was published in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2005.]
The Voyages of Captain Scott….
Scott, Robert Falcon. Edited by Charles Turley, with an introduction by J. M. Barrie. London: Smith, Elder, 1914.
- Antarctic Reading: General
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A completely adulatory semi-biography, much from Scott’s writings. Ex:
Tragedy and Triumph: the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott’s Last Polar Expedition.
Scott, Robert Falcon. New York: Konecky & Konecky [n.d.].
- 1910-14 British National Antarctic Expedition (Scott on Terra Nova).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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These journals include rather little on reading. The expedition’s lecture series implies a good library available to the lecturers, all 13 of them. Subjects included mostly scientific matter: parasitology, scurvy, polar clothing, sledging diets, motor sledges, geology, volcanoes, surveying, Lololand, biology, horse management, Burma, China, India, Japan; Scott himself lectured on the icebarrier and inland ice, and on plays for the Southern Journey. Other topics were coronas, hales, rainbows and auroras, general meteorology, the Beardmore glacier, physiography, flying birds, penguins, ice problems, radium, and the constitution of matter. [see index p. 511-12]