On board was an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, a man determined to be the first to reach the South Pole. A year and a half later, Scott and three members of his team died during a brutal blizzard. Their dream of reaching the Pole first had already been dashed by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, and now on their return trip--slowed by ill health and bad weather--Scott's party found themselves trapped in a tent without sufficient provisions, while the wind howled endlessly outside. Even in his final hours, Scott found the strength to continue the journal he'd started at the beginning of his adventures; the diary was found beside his frozen body.Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals is the explorer's detailed account of his time in Antarctica. The team's daily progress towards their final goal is recorded in Scott's vivid, personal narrative, as well as his impressions of the harsh conditions, the stark beauty of the tundra, and his own increasingly desperate ambition to beat his rivals to the Pole. Shortly before he died, Scott wrote: "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman." Robert Falcon Scott and his men died, but their story lives on in his journals.

    "Awonderful book. I like it especially for its color and anecdotes. It is a classic, not only for its accuracy and breadth of insights into the people of the region, but because these people themselves are so interesting and strong."--Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    With meditation and concentrated thought we can develop our intuition and clairvoyance and even our powers of ESP. Written "to be of use to those who are really in earnest in seeking knowledge of the spiritual world," this book continues to inspire today. Austrian scholar, philosopher and spiritual researcher RUDOLF STEINER (1861-1925) has written dozens of books, including Philosophy of Freedom, Theosophy, An Outline of Occult Science, and Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.

    

    No man was better fitted to write of this wild and rich, rugged and bleak, yet beautiful region than was its explorer and path-finder, its pioneer writer, the creator of its institutions and moulder of its early government, the late William Ogilvie. The book has stirring interest; it is history in the making and the basis of future historical writing as to this vast lone land of the Arctic. It but touches the fringe of the time when men reached out for what was to be a hundred millions worth of gold; when that wonderful Camp was constituted in which good and evil developed side by side, and the strongest and meanest of mankind were tested in the sternest of the world ’s wars between humanity and nature. The book leads up to this period, shows the country in plain but effective narrative, and provides a valuable record of pioneer conditions and events.Over 100 years ago Yukon was an uninhabited, uncharted, unknown, and even unnamed land, by 1910 it sheltere a vigorous population, in numerous, prosperous towns and under a well-organized stable government. No such region has ever sprung into existence more suddenly or developed so rapidly with as little waste of wealth, energy, and human life. And this was due primarily to the mental strength, sound judgment, and fine moral fiber of William Ogilvie. Of Scotch Irish stock, born and educated in Ottawa, he took up his work of Dominion surveyor in the new lands of the Northwest Territory. His surveys on the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers, extending in a single trip alone nearly three thousand miles, yielded the first accurate information of a country never before traversed by the foot of a white man. He made the first preliminary survey of the international boundary between Alaska and Canada and so accurately that the latest survey found the line at the Yukon only a few score yards from where it ought to be.Ogilvie was made the first commissioner of Yukon Territory in 1896. He had to select his aids and advisers, to create a system of laws, and to administer them. He established schools as well as courts, organized a postal service, adjusted public grievances, created public sentiment, and made a strong and orderly state out of a wilderness and a mob of men seeking gold.It is the story of these days that he tells in this work with a directness and unaffected simplicity that conceals from the casual reader the great part he played himself. As a tale of the days when men fought with the wilderness for wealth the book is full of interest, overflowing with anecdote in which humor and death run side by side. It is invaluable as the record of an accurate observer, a keen judge of men, a retentive memory, and above all a strong leader in stormy times. For the history of the Northwest he has done a great service in recording what would otherwise have been irrevocably lost. Mr. Ogilvie's book must always be an indispensable document in any study of the social or political history of the Klondike. CONTENTS I. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF GEOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL DISTINCTIONS OF AMERICAN TERRITORY OF ALASKA AND THE YUKON TERRITORY OF CANADA II. BOUNDARY MATTERS III. STORY OF ATTEMPTED CRIME AND THE SWIFT JUSTICE WHICH FOLLOWED IT IV. REMARKS ON MR. OGILVIE'S SURVEY V. TRADING AND TRADING POSTS ON THE RIVER VI. GOLD DISCOVERIES AND MINING VII. FIRST GOLD SENT OUT VIII. DISCOVERY OF THE KLONDIKE IX. MR. OGILVIE'S VISIT TO THE COUNTRY IN 1887-8 AND OBSERVATIONS MADE THEN X. WINTER WORK IN 1895-6 XI. WORK DONE ON THE CREEKS BY MR. OGILVIE XII. LOCAL EXCITEMENT AS WEALTH OF KLONDIKE WAS REVEALED XIII. EXPERIENCES IN CAMP AND ON RIVER XIV.

    

    It is written, therefore, in the simplest manner possible, considering the technical character of the great engineering feat itself, and the involved complexities of the diplomatic history attaching to its inception and undertaking. The temptation to turn aside into the pleasant paths of the romantic history of ancient Panama has been resisted; there is no attempt to dispose of political problems that incidentally concern the canal; in short, the book is confined to the story of the canal itself, and the things that are directly and vitally connected with it. Colonel Goethals was good enough to read and correct the chapters relating to the construction of the canal, and, when shown a list of the chapters proposed, he asked that the one headed "The Man at the Helm" be omitted. The author felt that to bow to his wishes in that matter would be to fail to tell the whole story of the canal, and so Colonel Goethals did not read that chapter. Every American is proud of the great national achievement at Panama. If, in the case of the individual, this book is able to supplement that pride by an ample fund of knowledge and information, its object and purpose will have been attained. This pre-1923 publication has been converted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the conversion.

    A complete illustrated course of instruction in vaudeville stage work for amateurs and beginners.

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