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    Cheltenham In Antarctica: The Life of edward Wilson

    By David Wilson and David Elder

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    Edward Adrian Wilson is perhaps the most famous native son of Cheltenham. In

    the early years of the 20th Century, he was one of the major influences and

    personalities of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration and has also been

    recognised as one of the top ranking ornithologists and naturalists in the United

    Kingdom during this period. He was also one of the last great scientific expedition

    artists.

    Despite this, remarkably little has been published about him. His father wrote an

    unpublished biography of him shortly after his death. This was an important

    source for George Seaver, who published three volumes of biography on Edward

    Wilson in the 1930s and 40s, fortunately quoting extensively from his letters and

    diaries. After the appearance of the first two volumes much of the source material

    that Seaver had used was destroyed, most of it on the instructions of Oriana,

    Edward Wilson’s widow. There was nothing malicious in this: she simply thought

    that she had done her public duty in allowing a biography to be published and did

    not want strangers digging around in her private correspondence after her death.

    In the 1960s and 70s, through the Scott Polar Research Institute, the Antarctic

    expedition diaries of Edward Wilson and a volume of his Antarctic bird pictures

    were published. Several people tried to write new biographies in the 1970s and

    80s but all failed for the lack of new material: due to the subsequent events,

    George Seaver’s books and the published diaries already contained much of the

    source material about the life of Edward Wilson.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReardon Publishing
    Release dateNov 30, 2012
    ISBN9781874192701
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    Cheltenham In Antarctica: The Life of edward Wilson
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    David Wilson

    DR. DAVID M. WILSON With over ten years experience working on Expedition cruise ships, Dr David Wilson is in increasing demand both as an ornithological field guide and as an historian. He boasts numerous explorers and ornithologists on his family tree, which add a uniquely personal flavour to many of his talks. Not least amongst these was his great uncle, Dr Edward Wilson, who was on both of Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions and famously died with him on the return from the South Pole in 1912. With his wide range of philosophical, artistic and biological interests, time spent talking with Dr. Wilson is not likely to be dull. He is the author of numerous books, papers and even a CD of historic Antarctic expedition songs and poems. His latest books, to be published in the autumn of 2011 will be a volume of Captain Scott's own long lost photographs; and a volume of his great uncle's Antarctic paintings. Dr. David M. Wilson, PhD. (Essex), was born in 1963. Having an early career in the theatre, he moved on to study at the United World College of the Pacific and the Universities of York and Essex, where he trained as a philosopher. He is also a trained Counsellor. With a strong interest in Aboriginal cultures, he also has a wide range of ornithological and natural history interests. He is a noted polar historian with a personal connection to his subject: his great uncle, Dr Edward Wilson, died with Captain Scott and his party on their return from the South Pole in 1912. In addition to writing The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott (2011), he has produced several books in support of our polar heritage: Cheltenham in Antarctica: the Life of Edward Wilson (2000); Discovery Illustrated: Pictures from Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition, (2001) The Songs of the 'Morning': a musical sketch, (cd 2002) Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks (2004) Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures from Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition (2009) Edward Wilson's Antarctic Notebooks (2011)

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