[COMPLETE] CAPTAIN SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION - JOURNAL (1913) - dc

SteveGough · Post by **SteveGough** » April 30th, 2020, 10:49 pm

Thanks so much as always!

SteveGough · Post by **SteveGough** » May 6th, 2020, 8:12 am

Hope all is well. Here is Section 12, at 18.58. https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/journalsofrobertfalconscottvol1_12_scott_128kb.mp3

Post by **craigdav1** » May 6th, 2020, 10:30 am

12 PL OK!

SteveGough · Post by **SteveGough** » May 13th, 2020, 12:31 am

Here is Section 13, at 21.41: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/journalsofrobertfalconscottvol1_13_scott_128kb.mp3
Plenty of incident and adventure here, though it is again the animals - and their plight - who are at the centre of things. Hope you are OK in Chicago. Today in London we can go out as much as we want for the first time for weeks. Wonderful!

Post by **craigdav1** » May 13th, 2020, 6:48 am

13 PL OK.

Plenty of adventure is right! Our big adventure here is daily 4 mile walks. More shops are opening up so we try to vary our path to give business to each. The pleasant weather is bringing out more people so we have had to adjust our path to areas where social distancing is easier. The side streets have almost no traffic so we frequently walk on them and not the sidewalks. We are still weeks away from "opening up."

SteveGough · Post by **SteveGough** » May 13th, 2020, 9:03 am

Strange to say your description your daily Chicago side-street walks exactly mirrors our own!

SteveGough · Post by **SteveGough** » May 14th, 2020, 1:31 am

I forgot to mention in my post for S13 that I left out a table of geographical bearings half way through the chapter, but I assume you would agree this table, like the others I've omitted, was quite obscure, especially when in the form of an audio....

Post by **craigdav1** » May 14th, 2020, 5:58 am

Yes, it would have been meaningless information to a listener.

SteveGough · Post by **SteveGough** » May 20th, 2020, 7:27 am

Here is section 14, at 13.41. https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/journalsofrobertfalconscottvol1_14_scott_128kb.mp3
Again plenty of drama, and one feels for both humans and beasts in the unforgiving snow.....

Post by **craigdav1** » May 20th, 2020, 9:36 am

14 PL OK.

Unforgiving, indeed.

SteveGough · Post by **SteveGough** » May 24th, 2020, 6:43 am

Section 15! 27.18: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/journalsofrobertfalconscottvol1_15_scott_128kb.mp3
By the way if you go onto YouTube and search under Captain Scott, Antarctic and Discovery Hut, you will find some fascinating short films about the Hut as described in this chapter. The interiors remain literally frozen in time to this day....

Post by **craigdav1** » May 24th, 2020, 10:53 am

15 PL OK.

Will check out those videos.

SteveGough · Post by **SteveGough** » June 3rd, 2020, 1:51 am

Section, 16: 22.56. https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/journalsofrobertfalconscottvol1_16_scott_128kb.mp3
Hope Chicago is surviving recent tragic events in the US.... we live in troubling times!
On the chapter, I left in a short section at the end, a table, noting levels of ice-spread which may sound a bit obscure, but I thought it should probably be included, in its way it is quite interesting as it perhaps reflects Scott's generally more anxious mood in this chapter, probably still affected by the accidents to men and animals and also of course the fears about Amundsen's getting there before him. Doing these readings I can't help but detect Scott's change of mood from the early heady days filled with a sense of their heroic mission.... but now inner doubts do lurk below the surface....

Post by **craigdav1** » June 3rd, 2020, 5:54 am

16 PL OK.

The mood does seem a bit darker. Things have calmed down here and with more shops open and warmer weather the mood here seems brighter.

SteveGough · Post by **SteveGough** » June 11th, 2020, 2:59 am

Here it section 17 - https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/journalsofrobertfalconscottvol1_17_scott_128kb.mp3, at 29.50
Interesting in the light of what we talked about last time concerning Scott's state of mind at this time.... a little slower paced and more observational and nice to read.