South with Scott

Record summary

South with Scott presents Edward Wilson’s journals and drawings from the Terra Nova expedition, edited and published decades after the expedition. Wilson’s observations provide a counterpoint to Scott’s official and personal narrative, especially for the winter journey to Cape Crozier, environmental interpretation and the emotional construction of Antarctic ordeal. The material can help researchers examine how a real polar catastrophe acquires legendary dimensions through publication, memorialization and retrospective selection. Because Wilson died on the return journey, the text is necessarily edited and cannot resolve every dispute about the expedition.