Masculinity and Religion in the Life and Posthumous Representations of Antarctic Explorer H. R. Bowers, c.1902 - 1939

• Main Author: Vernon, Kellie
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; South Pole; Polar; Terra Nova; Jehovahs Witness; Religion; Correspondence; Diaries; Exploration; Letters; Robert Falcon Scott; Apsley Cherry-Garrard; Antarctic; Representations; Charles Taze Russell; Domesticity; Birdie Bowers; George Seaver; Masculinity; Masculinities; Faith; Bowers; Cape Crozier; Cherry-Garrard; Crozier; Seaver; The Antarctic; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/2212c72c-e192-4bcf-8ca7-bc0e4b8e3a76; https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/files/54553613/FULL_TEXT.PDF

This thesis is the first academic study of the life of Lt. Henry Robertson ('Birdie') Bowers, the fifth man of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole of 1910 - 1913. Bowers played a central role in Scott's last expedition and the famous Cape Crozi...