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T. H. Baughman has produced a well-researched account of ... Captain Scott's first Antarctice expedition ... with as much information as anyone could want. He deals perceptively with polar exploration as an organic entity, showing how Discovery grew out of 19th century Arctic cock-ups in which the hapless sailors either died or ate their shoes or both and led directly to Scott's luninous death in 1912. The Times Baughman offers this long-needed, detailed assessment of Scott's first Antarctic venture... This is essential reading: vivid, exciting--even well-read Antarctic aficionados will hasten to turn the pages to learn how Scott manages to free his ship from the ice and take it home in one piece, even though they knew the answer from their youth. Choice By far the most authoritative analysis of Scott's Discovery expedition ever written. Baughman's scholarship is brilliant... The book is a landmark. - Michael Rosove, author of Let Heroes Speak: Early Antarctic Exploration An important contribution to a significant aspect of Antarctic exploration ... Baughman's treatment includes numerous new and previously unpublished aspects of [these] personalities. John Splettstoesser, International Organization of Antarctic Tour Operators A major contribution to the history of Antarctic exploration and discovery. Colin Bull, coeditor of Silas: The Antarctic Diaries and Memoir of Charles S. Wright

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T. H. Baughman is chair of the History Department at Benedictine College. He is the author of Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s (Nebraska 1993).

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