Talk:Roland Huntford/Archive 6

With reference to Karen May's "discovery of Scott's orders"
Regarding Karen May.

The article written by Karen May quoting Scott's orders relies on heavily edited quotes from the book South With Scott by Edward Evans.

Firstly Scott left a number of instructions with the qualification that his subordinates should use their own judgement according to the developing situation rather than adher to his requests without question.

Most notably he stressed that it was not imperative that the dogs should meet him on the return journey. By omitting this from her article, Karen May is just as guitly of revisionist history as Huntford is accused of. 86.165.179.188 (talk) 21:19, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Huntford's account of Meares.

In his book Huntford suggested that Meares was furious with Scott after being forced to make the return journey on short rations after being taken further South than his food supply would last. Thus putting his life in danger. While it is confirmed in Edward Evans book that he did go short, it was also recorded that Meares was giving away his part of his own rations to Evans team (who had been man hauling the longest) in the week before he turned back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.165.179.188 (talk) 21:33, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Possible vandalism?
There is no link to Huntford's most notorious work. The book Scott and Amundsen. The article states it was renamed The Last Place on Earth but the link doesn't lead to an article on the book but to an article on the TV drama based on the book. So there is no information regarding the book on Wikipedia. 81.154.77.13 (talk) 14:19, 20 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Not vandalism, we simply do not have an article on the book. There are many books about which we do not have articles. DuncanHill (talk) 14:37, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

It hardly seems worth having an article about an author without even a refenence to his main body of work.

Not even a link to where the book can be found. 81.154.77.13 (talk) 14:41, 20 April 2017 (UTC)


 * You are welcome to read Notability (books) and then head on over to Your first article if you would like to write an article about the book. As for where to find the book, traditionally libraries and bookshops are good places to start looking. DuncanHill (talk) 14:48, 20 April 2017 (UTC)