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Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel

By Anne Strathie
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By Anne Strathie
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Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers realised his life’s ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the return journey from the South Pole in 1912. Bowers was born in 1883 on the Firth of Clyde to an entrepreneurial sea-faring father and Gloucestershire-born missionary-teacher mother, His boyhood obsession with travel and adventure took him round the world several times, including to Australia, America, Africa, India, Burma and th...

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BiographyHistoryHistorical BiographyWorld HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous World HistoryExploration & DiscoveryHistorical Biography - General & MiscellaneousPolar Regions - HistoryExploration & Discovery - General & MiscellaneousHistorical Biography - Explorers