The Voyage of the 'Discovery'; With Illustrations and Maps; New Edition; In Two Volumes by Scott, Robert F

London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1907. (Hardcover set) 410, 387pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Two volumes in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine and a paste-down illustration on each front cover. Top edge gilt, frontispieces, illustrations, photographs, fold-out maps, advertisements. A light dampstain on the front cover of vol. 2, the bottom right corner of both volumes has a small light scuff mark, and there is a three-inch-long diagonal closed tear in the fold-out maps at the end of the both volumes. "Strange as it may seem, the greater part of this story had been enacted before I realised that it would devolve on me to narrate it in book form. When first I saw vaguely this unwelcome task before me there was fresh in my mind not only the benefit which we had derived from studying the records of former Polar voyages, but the disappointment which he had sometimes suffered from the insufficient detail which they provided. It appeared to me in consequence that the first object in writing an account of a Polar voyage was the guidance of future voyagers; the first duty of the writer was to his successors" - from the Preface. Book about Robert Falcon Scott & South Pole Expedition. Time Period 1901-1904. (Antarctica, Exploration--Antarctic, Explorers--England, Ships, Voyages and Travels).