Edward Wilson
Books
- Eleven Miles from One Ton Scott, Amundsen, and the Fatal Margin on the Antarctic Barrier · Liszt Think
On January 17, 1912, Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole only to find Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian flag already planted.
- Terra Nova Leaves Cardiff…ks, crushing and grinding a way through some, twisting and turning to avoid others, she seemed like a living thing fighting a great fight.” Edward Wilson stood at the rail. He was forty-three, a physician by training, an artist by temperament. He had sailed with Scott before, on the Discovery…
- The Rival’s Telegram…visible. Scott called his officers. Lieutenant Edward Evans, the second-in-command, was present. Victor Campbell, the navigator, attended. Edward Wilson, chief of scientific staff and the expedition’s moral center, read the message in silence. The composition of this council reflected the ex…
- The Ice Dock at Cape Evans…mattered. The austral summer was already advancing toward its brief peak. After that, the ice would return, and the ship would have to go. Edward Wilson recorded the scene in the diary he kept for science and for memory. He was forty years old, a physician and naturalist, chief of the scient…