Centenary Edition: ISBN 1 873877 48 X
This is a hardback, slipcased edition, limited to 100 numbered copies. Each copy is signed by both authors.
It is now sold out from the publisher and difficult to find.
500 images in colour and black and white, from one of the greatest of heroic age Antarctic Expeditions. With diary quotations from Chief Engineer R.A. Skelton and Dr. E.A Wilson
Judy Skelton and David Wilson have used the original photographs, paintings and drawings from the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) aboard Discovery, together with extracts from their forebears' journals, to give the reader an experience of this voyage of exploration as close as possible to that of the men who experienced it 100 years ago.
The Expedition's scientific and geographical achievements were truly remarkable. The members of the expedition were the first men to travel any distance into the interior of the Antarctic continent, surveying and making meticulous geographical observations as they battled to survive the hostile elements. They also studied and recorded the geology and the flora and fauna, discovering huge numbers of new species, and took copious, magnetic, meteorological and gravitational measurements.
Stories of football on the ice - with the enthusiastic participation of a penguin - musical and theatrical entertainments, as well as 'The South Polar Times', 'Discovery's' winter magazine, amply illustrate the lighter side of expedition life.
All Royalties will benefit the work of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.