The Final Letters of Captain Scott
Exhibition at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, until 14 April 2007
TRAGIC hero or symbol of the bumbling incompetence of the floundering British Empire? However you view Robert Falcon Scott, reading his last words on flimsy notepaper it is impossible to see him as anything other than tragically human. In agony, having failed to return to base in the Antarctic summer of 1912, Scott wrote to those he held dear – including his wife and the British people. We may know the words, but the sentence “To my widow” is…
