The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic, 1910-1913

London: The Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 2012 (first thus). Quarto, lxiv, 591 pages with several maps plus numerous plates (some in colour, most from photographs). Pictorial papered boards; very slightly bumped at the foot of the spine; a near-fine copy in the slightly rubbed slipcase. An account of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's disastrous final expedition to the South Pole. 'This is the single greatest book in the literature of polar exploration. There are others that are beautiful. There are others that are exciting. There are some that are more revealing about the whys and wherefores of expedition leadership ... But there are none that have anything like "The Worst Journey in the World's" power to evoke a time and a place, and to bring us intimately, almost eerily inside the small world of an expedition...' (from the introduction by Francis Spufford). This edition follows the text of the 2003 Pimlico edition, with minor emendations.