Silas~Charles Wright~Colin Bull~1993~First Edition~First Printing~Near Fine Condition~Antarctica~Free Shipping

Silas~Charles Wright~Colin Bull~1993~First Edition~First Printing~Near Fine Condition~Antarctica~Free Shipping.

The Antarctic diaries and memoir of Charles S. Wright. A very good to near fine copy of this great adventure. No markings or inscriptions. Very slight bumping on the cover.

Sir Charles Seymour Wright, KCB, OBE, MC (7 April 1887 – 1 November 1975), nicknamed “Silas” Wright after novelist Silas Hocking, was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic expedition of 1910–1913, the Terra Nova Expedition.

In Antarctica, Wright carried out numerous experiments on ice formations and ground radiation, and assisted meteorologist George Simpson. From January to mid-March 1911, he was one of four expedition members (with Thomas Griffith Taylor, Frank Debenham (Geologist) and Edgar Evans) who explored and mapped the western mountains of Victoria Land (the first western journey), performing scientific studies and geological observations. On 1 November 1911, Wright was a member of the Southern Party team that set off from their base camp at Cape Evans with the intention of reaching the South Pole. He hoped to be included in the polar party selected to accompany Scott on the final push to the Pole; however, on 22 December 1911 at latitude at 85° 15’ South, seven weeks into the journey, while still 300 miles from the pole, he was in the first supporting party which Scott sent back. He spent the next five weeks helping the party navigate the 580 miles back to Cape Evans, where they waited for Scott and his party’s return from the pole. Scott never arrived. On 12 November 1912, it was Wright, as a member of the 11-man search party led by Edward Atkinson, who first spotted the tent containing the bodies of Scott, Edward Wilson, and Henry Bowers, who had all perished on their return trek from the South Pole eight months earlier. - From Wikipedia

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