her discovery that Scott had issued written orders, before his march to the Pole, for Meares to meet the returning party with dog-teams, in contrast to Huntford's assertion in 1979 that Scott issued those vital instructions only as a casual oral order to Evans during the march to the Pole. According to May, "Huntford's scenario was pure invention based on an error; it has led a number of polar historians down a regrettable false trail". The expedition was the subject of Terra Nova, a 1977 play by Ted Tally (who later wrote the screenplay for The Silence of the Lambs). Beryl Bainbridge's 1991 novel The Birthday Boys also gives a fictionalised account of the expedition, with monologues from the five men who died on the return from the pole. See also Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, permanent base at the pole Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration List of solved missing person cases References Footnotes Bibliography Online External links 1868 births 1912 deaths Antarctic expedition deaths Collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Deaths by starvation Deaths from hypothermia English explorers Explorers of Antarctica Officiers of the Légion d'honneur People educated at Stubbington House School Military personnel from Plymouth, Devon People of the Victorian era Recipients of the Cullum Geographical Medal Recipients of the Polar Medal Royal Navy officers Robert Terra Nova expedition