EVANS (Admiral Sir E.R.G.R.)
South with Scott.
INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING
A very good copy with a charming illustration of a penguin on an ice floe. While books inscribed by Evans appear on the market from time to time, those with illustrations are much rarer.
Evans served on the 1901-04 Discovery expedition with both Scott and Shackleton. He was Scott’s second-in-command and captain of the Terra Nova. More poignantly, he was originally a member of Scott’s polar party, though suffering from scurvy Scott had him turn back 150 miles from the pole. Thus, he was the last living member of the expedition to see Scott alive.
Evans owed his life to the devotion of the two men to whom this book is dedicated: Chief Stoker Lashly and Petty Officer Crean.
Rosove, 117.I4(a).