Return to Antarctica

Adrian Raeside was born in 1957, in Dunedin, New Zealand. His editorial cartoons, which have appeared in the Victoria Times Colonist for 30 years, and his Other Coast comic strip are syndicated to hundreds of newspapers and magazine worldwide. The author travelled to Antarctica courtesy of Quark Expeditions, www.quarkexpeditions.com.

• Preface. Part I 650 – 1911 Discovery of Antarctica and Silas’s Arrival at Cape Evans.Chapter I: The Last Unexploited Place on Earth.Chapter 2: Charles Seymour "Silas" Wright.Chapter 3: The 1910 British Antarctic Expedition.Chapter 4: Voyage to New Zealand.Chapter 5: To the Ice.Part II 1911 – 1912 The First Inland Expeditions and the Journey to the South Pole.Chapter 6: Arrival, 1911.Chapter 7: The Western Party.Chapter 8: Depot Laying, 1911.Chapter 9: The Northern Party.Chapter 10: The First Winter, 1911.Chapter 11: The Southern Journey, 1911.Chapter 12: The Beardmore Glacier.Chapter 13: Silas’s Return from the Beardmore.Chapter 14: The South Pole and Return Journey.Part III 1912 – 1914 The Search for Scott and the Return Home.Chapter 15: The Disaster.Chapter 16: The Second Winter.Chapter 17: The Search Party.Chapter 18: Home.Chapter 19: Polar Redux.Chapter 20: What Became of Everyone?Appendix: Crew Names.Notes.Index.Photo Credits.