3-047-198 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sometimes They Would All Plunge Into A Crevasse', c1929. 'Still they pushed on, despite hunger, despite cold, snow blindness and fatigue. Sometimes they would all plunge into a crevasse and know thereby that they had left their track and were wandering, who could tell where?' British naval officer and explorer Robert Falcon Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole, 1910-1913. From "Heroic Deeds of Great Men", by C. Sheridan Jones and Alfred Miles, illustrated by Howard Davie and Harry Payne [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, c1929]