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  The Terra Nova Journals by  Francis Davies Leading Shipwright RN Covering the 1910 to 1913 Antarctic Expedition I have now turned these journals into a fully illustrated book showing from the crew’s point of view of life below decks. Click Here for Order Details http://www.antarcticbookshop.com/special.htm £175 incl Free UK delivery direct from publishers      Never seen before maps on Antarctica from private collections Top review from the United States Xavier Ninnis 5.0 out of 5 stars   An Embarrassment of Riches! Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2021 What an unexpected treat, this along with the release of Angie Butler/Beau Riffenburgh’s biography and diaries of Eric Marshall, makes this, for those with an interest (for many, including myself, more an obsession) in Antartica’s "Heroic Age of Exploration," the richest, most exciting period since last decade's spate of releases concerning Mawson’s "Aus...

Captain Scott’s Terra Nova  Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole With Scott before the Mast by Francis Davies To be Published August 2020 Book Design: Nicholas Reardon ISBN 9781901037555 British Antarctic Expedition 1910 - 1913 Video link click on image Never seen before photos and historical artefacts, kept safe by his decadences, for over 100 years. Unique below decks prospective on Captains Scotts last Antarctic Expedition (Crossing the line document) Unabridged and never before Published These are the Journals of Francis Davies Leading Shipwright RN when on board Captain Scott’s “Terra Nova” Francis Davies   The geographic and scientific accomplishments of Captain Scott’s two Antarctic expeditions changed the face of the Twentieth Century in ways that are still not widely appreciated over a hundred years later. The fact of accomplishment has tended to be lost in speculative arg...

The Antarctic Journals of  Reginald Skelton:  "Another Little Job for the Tinker" ISBN    9781873877692  Limited Edition Leather bound book signed, numbered, and with slipcase £175  www.antarcticbookshop.com Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=9781873877692&ref=nb_sb_noss Reginald Skelton Was Chief Engineer, And Offical Photographer To Captain Scott's Discovery Expedition;  Youtube Video  www.antarcticbookshop.com My memories of my grandfather are of an old, but still fit and upright, man who had a deep gravelly voice and chuckled a lot. I was only ten when he died in 1956 and he never, as far as I can remember, told me anything about his time in the Antarctic.  www.antarcticbookshop.com Forty two years after his death we had, in a sense, changed places and I was getting the full story. By then into my fifties, seated in the library at the Scott Polar...

"Dog Days on ICE Antarctic Exploration in a Golden Age"  ISBN: 9781873877890 written by Peter Noble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP57deu9Kj8 Dogs were taken from Antarctica, a consequence of an environmental clause in the Antarctic Treaty that required non-native species to be removed. In the case of dogs, specifically because distemper (a disease of dogs) could potentially spread from the dogs to the native seals of Antarctica www.antarcticbookshop.com "Dog Days on Ice" is the personal account of one man's experience of a truly golden era for exploration. Much has been archived about the scientific achievements involved, but Peter Noble concentrates on the human experience of life on the ice in the 1960s. Through his account of a 600 mile dog sledge journey and two of the longest and biggest expeditions ever undertaken by the British Antarctic Survey, he tells of the pleasures and pitfalls, the humour and hardships,...