Terra NovaIllustrated · Vanguard Edition
Meet the men who sailed south with Captain Scott, in a Who's Who brought to life in pencil and paint.
Research and text by David Wilson · Illustrations by Sarah Airriess
Watch the film.
A short film about the book and the men inside it.
A field guide to the men of Terra Nova.
A few of the famous names to start you off. The book goes much further, profiling the men who sailed south with Scott, from the polar party to the ship's crew.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott
The Owner
A Royal Navy officer who had already led the Discovery Expedition. He reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find Amundsen had beaten him there by about five weeks.
Dr Edward Wilson
Uncle Bill
Scott's closest friend and a gifted painter of Antarctic wildlife and landscapes. He reached the Pole with Scott and died beside him on the return journey.
Captain Lawrence Oates
Titus
A cavalry officer who cared for the expedition's Siberian ponies. Frostbitten and failing on the return from the Pole, he walked out into a blizzard to spare his companions.
Lieutenant Henry Bowers
Birdie
Short, tireless, and famous for never seeming to feel the cold. He was added to the polar party at the last moment and died alongside Scott and Wilson.
Petty Officer Edgar Evans
Taff
A strong, cheerful Welshman who had sailed with Scott on Discovery. He was the first of the polar party to die, in February 1912, near the foot of the Beardmore Glacier.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Cherry
One of the youngest men on the expedition. With Wilson and Bowers, he crossed the ice in the pitch dark of winter to collect Emperor penguin eggs.
Petty Officer Tom Crean
Tom
A tough, good-humored Irishman. When Lieutenant Teddy Evans collapsed with scurvy, Crean walked about 35 miles alone across the ice to fetch help and saved his life.
Herbert Ponting
Ponko
The expedition's photographer and filmmaker, whose images of icebergs, penguins, and life at the hut shaped how the world saw Antarctica.
Life on the expedition,
in pencil and paint.
A few of Sarah Airriess's illustrations from the book, drawn with an animator's eye for character.
Illustrations © Sarah Airriess, from Terra Nova Illustrated.
A historian with Antarctica
in his family tree, and an animator.
David Wilson
The great-nephew of Dr Edward Wilson, who died with Captain Scott in 1912.
Dr David M. Wilson, FZS, began his career in the theater before training as a philosopher at the Universities of York and Essex. A keen naturalist and ornithologist, he spent ten years on expedition cruise ships as a field guide and historian, and he recently retired as Chairman of the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge.
Sarah Airriess
An animator who brings the men of the Heroic Age back to life.
Sarah's film work includes The Princess and the Frog, Big Hero 6, and Aladdin (2019). She moved to England to adapt Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World as a graphic novel, working with the Scott Polar Research Institute, and she has since been to Antarctica herself through the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The men of Scott's expeditions are old friends of her pencil.
All hands to make good!
This Vanguard Edition is the first word, not the last. David is inviting readers to help. If you know something about anyone who sailed with Terra Nova, whether it's a correction, a family story, or a photograph, send it in to help shape the complete edition to come.
Pick the crew member you know something about.
Tell David what to add or correct, and how you know.
Press the button. Your email opens with everything filled in, so you can attach any photos before you send.
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Bring the whole crew home.
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Keep exploring the ice.
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