ePub More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement by Jennifer Nelson in History

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Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott; who died near the South Pole in 1912; initially won his fame with a remarkable trip to Antarctica in 1901; aboard the Discovery. During this journey; Scott became the first man to see the South Polar ice cap and achieved a new 'farthest south' record. He explored the continent from the air via balloon and made a trip across the frozen wastes with Ernest Shakleton. In Voyage of the Discovery; the only work he lived to see published; Scott tells of his exciting and at times horrifying journey; in which he and his men faced blizzards; snow-blindness; the deaths of two crewmates; and a ship so trapped by ice that only dynamite could free it.