![]() ![]() ![]() I was totally transported and gripped, and the last days of the polar team ( from Scott's diaries) are so moving. The personal details are so telling - Apsley Cherry-Garrard should never have gone (he was shortsighted, young and unskilled) and often he could not wear his glasses because of the cold but still plugged on without a complaint. Apsley Cherry-Garrard's account is beautifully written (apparently with some help from his neighbour George Bernard Shaw) and though in the early stages you think he goes into too much detail, it all builds up to a tapestry of triumph and disaster. What those men went through was so extraordinary that it almost beggars belief. ![]() This outstanding account was written some ten years later by the youngest participant, clearly still guiltridden for not finding the party returning from the Pole. Read it and be awestruck by what the men of Captain Scott's last expedition did in the days before modern technology and communications. ![]()
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