12-06-2011, 05:38 PM
cool~
Almost a century after Captain Scott and his team perished on a polar expedition, new details of their ill-fated adventure described in letters and journals are to be displayed for he first time.
New artifacts include the last letter written by Scott’s closest comrade Dr Edward Wilson before he died on the return from the South Pole.
Addressed to publisher Reginald Smith, the letter - which reflects on the crew’s struggle - had remained undiscovered since 1913 until an archivist returned to inspect a box of documents.
The story of the Terra Nova expedition is explored in a mixture of newly discovered and rarely seen letters, diaries and photographs of its members, in an exhibition at Cambridge University’s Polar Museum.
The exhibition tells the full story of the fateful expedition, not just through the famous journals and letters of Scott, Bowers, Evans, Oates and Wilson, who died on their way back from the Pole, but through other members of the ship’s crew and shore party.
![[Image: article-0-0F1310A000000578-778_634x286.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/06/article-0-0F1310A000000578-778_634x286.jpg)
daily mail
Almost a century after Captain Scott and his team perished on a polar expedition, new details of their ill-fated adventure described in letters and journals are to be displayed for he first time.
New artifacts include the last letter written by Scott’s closest comrade Dr Edward Wilson before he died on the return from the South Pole.
Addressed to publisher Reginald Smith, the letter - which reflects on the crew’s struggle - had remained undiscovered since 1913 until an archivist returned to inspect a box of documents.
The story of the Terra Nova expedition is explored in a mixture of newly discovered and rarely seen letters, diaries and photographs of its members, in an exhibition at Cambridge University’s Polar Museum.
The exhibition tells the full story of the fateful expedition, not just through the famous journals and letters of Scott, Bowers, Evans, Oates and Wilson, who died on their way back from the Pole, but through other members of the ship’s crew and shore party.
daily mail