Travels ended, Book completed

My travelling days are over. In 2017 while in Cambridge spent three days in the hospital and in 2018 I came home in a wheelchair. I am a slow learner but I eventually decided that overseas travel was no longer an option. So what to do?

I then devoted my time to finish writing a book on the early days at Scott Base on Ross Island in Antarctica. After much writing sorting photos, editing by myself and friends in November 2018 I decided to go to print. I would have the book out by Christmas and have all presents solved.  No way!  After another twelve months of professional editing and layout, not to mention the cover design and indexing finally today, 27 November 2019, I received eight boxes of my book. As I promised my family they will have a copy for Christmas. Luckily last year I didn’t say what Christmas.

The book tells about the building of Scott Base, the individual buildings, and the two major expansion. The book describes travelling to the Antarctic in the little wooden Endeavour and flying a propeller-driven Super Constellation. The winters and the how we moved around – land sea and air transport – and some description of aircraft crashes and rescues. Finally I give a comparison of how the bases have changed over the last 100 years using Scott's Cape Evans base, 1913, the original Scott Base in 1963, and the new Scott base as it was in 2013.  Interspersed throughout the book are stories from my two winters in 1960 and 1963.

I will talk more about the book in future blogs.