THE VOYAGES OF THE DISCOVERY

Discovery was built for Captain Scott’s firts Antartic expedition of 1901-04 and was launched more than 100 hundred years ago in 1901, at Dundee. She had long, hard years at sea and on the London river during World War II before her eventual reurn to Scotalnd in 1986; This bok tell the story of that evenful career. The vivid descriptions of the voyages and of the legendary bravery of the explorers who sailer her into ice-bound waters conjure up the lost world of wooden ships and early Antarctic exploration