Doorly, Three Polar Knights

This material is held atScott Polar Research Institute Archives, University of Cambridge

  • Reference
    • GB 15 Gerald Doorly/Three Polar Knights
  • Dates of Creation
    • [19--]-1929
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • 1 microfilm of 92 loose leaves and circa 2 letters MS 1182;MJ is on microfilm

Scope and Content

  • MS 1182;MJ 'Three polar knights, An account of the exploits of Scott, Shackleton and Mawson in the Antarctic, 1901-1931' [Popular account of the expeditions of these three men, prepared for publication as a book, but apparently never published] 92 leaves, typescript, microfilm
  • MS 100/26/1-2;D Letters (2) to Hugh Robert Mill, 1929 [Regarding his proposed book 'Three polar knights'] 3 leaves, typescript

Administrative / Biographical History

Material relating to a proposed publication by Doorly on three Antarctic explorers from the 'Heroic Age' of Antarctic Exploration, (Robert Falcon Scott leader of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 and the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 and Ernest Henry Shackleton leader of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916 and the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922)

Arrangement

Chronological.