Beschreibung:

Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913--Wright, Sir Charles Seymour "Silas". MANUSCRIPT DIARY LETTERS WRITTEN DURING HIS VOYAGE TO ANTARCTICA ON THE BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION LED BY CAPT R. SCOTT covering the voyage of the Terra Nova from shortly before its arrival at Melbourne, continuing south into the Antarctic Ocean, through pack-ice, and ending shortly before disembarkation at Cape Evans, describing members of the expedition ("...Oates "the soldier" or "spurs". An expert on dogs & ponies, also with Atkinson on methods of annoying "No. I"..."), activities on board ("...Albatross catching has also been rather fun, though our bag to date is one solitary one...") including his attempts to photograph whales and other more successful photographic experiments ("...Ponting got some lovely telephotos of a berg only 3/4 mile off..."), and latterly providing a vivid impression of the Antarctic Ocean with its freezing temperatures ("...now as the spray falls on deck it at once freezes...") and severe storms ("...heavy seas breaking over loosening more cases & sending them scudding around between our legs. The water was almost continually over our knees & occasionally took us off our feet...") as the ship pushed its way slowly through pack-ice ("...It is wonderful how the old tub stands the butting into the floes..."), with his experiences of midnight sun, snow blindness, seal meat, and encounters with Adelie Penguins ("...They are most clumsy birds out of the water & are continually falling over themselves as they walk on the floes, in which case they usually continue on their tummies at much greater speed than on their feet..."), with occasional line-drawings and diagrams, 42 pages, 8vo, text on rectos only, lined, perforated notepaper removed from notebook, paginated (pp.32-37, 40-70, 72-76), before 11 October to 30 December 1910, with photocopies of two additional pages, 24 leaves torn with loss of about half of each leaf