New Books On Antarctica

January 31, 2023

New Books On Antarctica

from

Reardon Publishing

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THE POLAR BOOK £35

isbn 9781901037180

The Polar Book created as a facsimile of a now very scarce publication for the British Polar Exhibition of 1930 that celebrated the history of Polar discoveries and expeditions of the day.

This is the first edition as a case bound hardback, complete with two coloured maps designed by John Bartholomew.

This book celebrates Polar discoveries and expeditions, with chapters on the history of Polar discoveries, geophysics, geology, flora and fauna along with equipment needed and used at the time.

Contributors: G T Atkinson and H R Mil. The Foreword is by L.C. Bernacchi.

Louis Charles Bernacchi (8 November 1876 - 24 April 1942), a physicist and astronomer, is best known for his role in several expeditions to the Antarctic. He joined Carstens Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition (1898-1900) which wintered at Cape Adare, Antarctica, joining the expedition in New Zealand after the previous physicist candidate had been rejected on medical grounds. The expedition was the first to spend the winter on the Antarctic continent (the Belgian Antarctic Expedition having been first to overwinter in 1898) and the first to sledge towards the South Pole. He wrote a book about the expedition To the south polar regions: expedition of 1898-1900 published in 1900.

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Polar Crean £30

Tom Crean Antarctic Explorer

isbn 9781901037197

This is a first edition case bound hardback, which contains a number of Photographs and maps of Antarctica which appeared with a Tom Crean feature after his death by Dennis Barry.

The rest of the book contains photos showing Discovery just fitted out from

the News and Views section in the Black and White Budget Magazine 1901,

The exploration of the South Pole. The wonders of the coming Discovery as part of Anglo-Germanic Expedition by Sir Henry Leach.

Sport in the Antarctic: The games that were played by the Men of the “Discovery” by Bernard C. Carter

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Animal Life in the Antarctic by S Kemp

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Like English Gentlemen: to Peter Scott

£30

The Death Of Scott of the Antarctic

isbn 9781901037173

This facsimile has been created from an original 1913 edition, a now scarce work first published in the year of Scott's death during the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-1913.

This book tells the tragic true story of the fate of Scott of the Antarctic and his companions on the return trip from the South Pole.

It was written anonymously by Sir John Ernest Hodder-Williams, or Sir James Matthew Barrie, for Scott's son Peter, with the object at the time of raising funds for the child following his father's death.

Peter Scott and his Mother

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Antarctic book

LIFE IN THE ANTARCTIC

£20

isbn: 9781901037166

Photographs by members of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

Voyage of the ‘Scotia’ 1902 – 1904.

This Facsimile has been created from the original 1907 first edition, each page professionally scanned.

With our Edition we have been able to create a far superior product making it a hardback and using high quality paper so the photos are clear and stand out from the pages.

William Bruce’s 1902 ‘Scotia’ Antarctic Expedition

William Bruce

From the Original:

The 1907 publishers beg to draw particular note to the fact that the illustrations in this little book are all reproductions of genuine photographs from life, taken by the Leader and Staff of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, during the voyage of the ‘Scotia’ 1902 – 1904.

Practically all of them are unique, many of the mammals and birds never having been previously photographed.

They were taken under conditions of climate which made photography extremely difficult and often impossible.

They are not touched up in anyway by the engravers, and may be implicitly relied upon as correct representations of the actual environments of Antarctic mammals and birds.

This Facsimile has been created from the original 1907 first edition, each photo professionally scanned.

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The last days of Ernest Shackleton

isbn: 9781901037210

£35

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The Last Days of Ernest Shackleton, is a unique and fully illustrated account of Shackleton’s death and burial in South Georgia from the personal point of view of a seaman on the Quest Expedition by the name of George Ross. George joined the Quest Expedition, at a place called Leith Harbour, in South Georgia, with the position donkey-man (a person in charge of a ships engine room) and he explains in detail the daily running of the ship after Shackleton’s death as a first hand account from a below decks crew members point of view. Along with George’s first hand account the book covers both the funeral arrangements, the Shetland Pallbearers, a short history of Shackleton’s Scouts, and the speeches at the unveiling of the Shacketon memorial.

This along with photos, maps, paintings and drawings of the expedition, crew, ship, Grytviken church, funeral and grave. To finish off the book the book contains an interview with the late Ernest Shackleton where he explains in his own words how his life at sea started and how he would like to be remembered.

About the Author

Mr. GEORGE HENRY ROSS, was with Shackleton on his 1921-22 expedition to the South Pole. Mr. Ross was one of the last survivors of the ill-fated Shackleton expedition. He was whaling in South Georgia when he joined the ship Quest as a donkeyman.

He was born in London and, at the start of an adventurous career, went to sea when he was 14. In 1913 he went to the Shetlands, where two years later he married a Shetland girl. Mr. Ross was one of the first men from the Shetlands to join up at the outbreak of the first world war. He was in the battle of Jutland, and was seriously injured while serving in the Royal Navy. Lumberjack: After that war he went to South Georgia. Between the Shackleton expedition and the second world war he worked as a lumberjack in Canada. Then he joined up again for service in the second war. Two of the ships in which he served as a gunlayer were torpedoed. For a time during the war he was based in Lowestoft. As well as whaling and lumberjacking, the other jobs Mr.

Ross tackled including helping in hospitals and fishing. He claimed that there was not a country in the world he had not visited. He travelled round the world eight times. Mr. Ross came to Yarmouth from the Shetlands after the last war with the Scottish herring fleet. His wife, Mrs. Annie Ross, worked for more than 40 years as a fisher girl. Mr. and Mrs. Ross went into the boarding-house business at Yarmouth. They gave up their Albert Square boarding-house and moved to Havelock Road.

The only thing they insisted on taking with them was the name of the house -- Shackleton House

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Germany in Antarctica

1930s to 1940s

isbn 9781901037081

£30

This book covers Antarctica in the 1920s to 1940s, before, during and after the Schwabenland Expedition, a fully illustrated book showing a hidden side to the continent of Antarctica and maybe showing something that is missing from the standard history books.