Manuscript Diary

Item author: Frank Wild
Item date: 1908 - 9
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,730
Item date acquired: 1971
Item institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

In this diary Wild records Shackleton and his companions painful progress over the Polar Plateau, their decision to turn back and their desperate struggle to regain the ship. Provides many insights that were not part of the official record of the expedition

Item Provenance
Sothebys May 1971, Lot 289