A First Rate Tragedy (44 page)

20
.
Ibid
., p. 263.

21
. Wild, diary, quoted by Huntford, Shackleton, p. 263.

22
.
Ibid
., p. 267.

23
. Mear and Swan, op. cit., p. 160.

24
. Fiennes,
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, p. 185.

25
. Wilson,
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26
. Heyerdahl, quoted by Fiennes, To
the Ends of the Earth
, pp 211–212.

27
. Fiennes,
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, p. 204.

28
. Oates, letter to mother, 28 November 1911.

29
. Scott on Atkinson, excised diary entry, 2 February 1911.

30
. Solomon, op. cit., pp. 313–317.

31
. Rogers,
Practitioner
, 1974, 2–12, The Death of Chief Petty Officer Evans.

32
. Solomon, op. cit., p. 231.

33
. Falckh,
Polar Record
, 1987, (145:397–403), The Death of Chief Petty Officer Evans.

34
. Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 565.

Epilogue

1
. Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 584.

2
. Scott, Kathleen, quoted by Young, op. cit., p. 163.

3
.
The Times
, 11 February 1913.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Cherry-Garrard, introduction to Seaver,
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic
, p. xii.

6
. Mear and Swan, op. cit., p. 86.

7
. Conversation between the author and Baden Norris, Antarctic Curator, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand.

8
. The work on the movement of the bodies of Scott and his companions is by Professor Charles Bentley and is referred to in several places, including
USA Today
, 24 February 1999 and p. 261 of Michael Smith’s book on Captain Oates.

9
. Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
, p. 562.

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