By Charles Swithinbank

Reflections upon forty years of exploration and research on the frozen continent.

Published: 1996 by The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia

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By Damien Gildea

A list of all mountaineering ascents made in Antarctica.

Published: 1998 by Paragon Printers, ACT, Australia

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By Judy Skelton

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Published: 2004 by Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, England

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By Julian Dowdeswell and Heather Lane

This volume of Edward Seago's dramatic paintings of Antarctica, accomplished during the voyage of HMY Britannia in 1956-57, includes a selection of works from the private collection of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Over 30 of Seago's oils are presented in full colour, along with a brief biography, an account of the voyage and a description of the landscape of Antarctica illustrated by a series of modern photographs.

Normally £29.99 - Special Christmas Offer Price: £25!!.

Published: 2006 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Heather Lane and Lucy Martin

The Herbert G Ponting collection of over 1700 large-format glass plate negatives is an outstanding example of early Antarctic photography. Herbert Ponting was one of the most renowned photographers of his time and these photographs were taken whilst he was on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13. This venture, on which Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four of his companions perished, is one of the most important early expeditions to the Antarctic and resonates throughout the British psyche.

The negatives give an unrivalled view of what polar exploration and research was like at the time. Exploration was a keystone of the British Empire, and going to the Antarctic was on a parallel with visiting the Moon today. Ponting himself thought of the whole enterprise as one of the most thrilling events of his life. In the first chapter of his book "The Great White South", he wrote: "Before going to the far South with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition, my life - save for six years' ranching and mining in Western America, a couple of voyages round the world, three years of travel in Japan, some months as war correspondent with Kuroki's army in Manchuria, during the war with Russia, and in the Philippines during the American War with Spain, and save too, for several years of travel in a score of other lands - had been comparatively uneventful.".

Published: 2006 by FCO Publishing Services

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By Jeff Rubin

The Lonely Planet Guide to Antarctica is a practical guide for anyone wishing to make the trip to Antarctica. Guide-books on Antarctica are few and far between and this one provides a wealth of detail on the history, geology, culture, environmental issues, wildlife and itineraries as well as antarctic science (by Dr.David Walton).

This book also contains a wildlife guide with more than sixty entries packed with pictures and with information essential for those who want to go and observe the wilderness of Antarctica.

Practical tips on when, how and with whom to go is both up to date, independent and as complete as one can get.

Plenty of information on the main Antarctic gateways is also provided as well as a chapter on the Sub-Antarctic Islands packed with information which is very diffuclt to find anywhere else with details on such isolated islands like Bouvetoya - the most isolated land on earth, Ile Crozet, Ile Kerguelen and many many others.

There are more than 20 maps in this book and information on varied subjects ranging from Helicopter Safety, Taking Photos in Antarctica, Why one should not collect anything from Antarctica, Glaciology, the Aurora Australis and How to cope with isolation.

Published: 2008 by Lonely Planet Publications, Australia

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By Tony Soper

An illustrated traveller's companion to the wildife of the Antarctic wilderness written by TV naturalist Tony Soper. Species identification is aided by a range of drawings by Dafila Scott.

Published: 2000 by Bradt

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By David McGonigal and Dr Lynn Woodworth

Antarctica brings to life this beautiful and inaccessible area of the globe, using superb photographs and text from a team of international experts, including biologists, historians, meteorologists, chemists, environmentalists, oceanographers and zoologists.

Published: 2003 by Frances Lincoln Ltd

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By Bernard Stonehouse

Antarctica from South America is written for the thousands of travellers who visit Antarctica through the southern gateway ports of South America - through Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Valparaiso on the mainland, and Punta Arenas and Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego. This book takes us south Orkney, South to Antarcic Peninsula, the South Orkney, South Shetland and South Sandwich Island and South Georgia, via the Chilian Fjords, southern Patagonia, the Straits of Magellan, Cape Horn, the Falkland Islands, and the gateway ports themselves. These are journeys that Bernard Stonehouse and his team have made many times, but still enjoy.

Published: 2006 by Originator Publishing

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By David Yelverton

Based on over 15 years of research, Antarctica Unveiled tells the story of Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic expedition, an expedition that has largely been erased from public perception by the mass attention devoted to the drama of his last expedition.

David E Yelverton first recounts the half-century of campaigning that led to a pan-European assault on the unknown continent at the dawn of the 20th century. The book takes the reader along on the Discovery Expedition into the terrain that faced Scott and his companions as they led parties into the unknown - and often dauntingly mountainous - territory to bring back the data and specimens that launched a century of research. Moreover, Yelverton analyses the inexorable factors that governed Scott's conduct of the expedition and contrasts the poignant erosion of his hopes with the achievement of goals - proof that the Antarctic Continent existed and the location of the South Magnetic Pole - to which the expedition's patrons attached their greatest hopes.

The book concludes with an account of the buildup of the race for the Pole that was the almost inevitable aftermath of Scott's achievement. Illustrated with more than 40 remarkable black-and-white photographs, Antarctica Unveiled is a must for the armchair traveller, historian and Antarctic enthusiast.

Published: 2000 by University Press of Colorado, USA

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By Tony Soper

A barren and inhospitable region for most of the year, the Arctic is permanent home to just a handful of hardy creatures. But come the summer, the wind stirs the waters to bring minerals to the surface, nourishing the plankton, that in turn attracts numerous birds and sea mammals to these shores. For just a few short months of almost endless daylight, the winter inhabitants of the Arctic fringes are joined by numerous shorebirds and waterfowl, seals and whales, all taking advantage of the abundance of food before heading south to avoid the harsh winter.

"Here, at last, is the book we have been waiting for." Sir David Attenborough.

Published: 2001 by Bradt

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By Bernard Stonehouse

Arctic atmospheric pollution is now a major international issue. This volume presents the most authoritative review of this increasingly important subject for an audience of both scientists and administrators concerned with worldwide, as well as polar, pollution problems.

Arctic Air Pollution is an edited collection of papers, first presented at a confwerence held at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge in 1985. Building on foundations established at earlier meetings, this volume examines the problem of arctic air pollution in an integrated, multidisciplinary fashion, with contributions from leading authorities in chemistry, ecology, climatology and epidemiology. To chemists, physicists and climatologists, it presents scientific problems. Ecologists are concerned with environmental threats; medical rsearchers with potential threats to human health. International lawyers and administrators are concerned with the legal implications of pollutants transferred across continents. Overall hangs the major question; can man-made pollution affect the delicate energy balance of the Arctic, and precipitate major climatic changes worldwide?.

Published: 1986 by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

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By John Bechervaise

The biography of John Riddoch Rymill as polar leader.

Published: 1995 by Bluntisham Books, Huntingdon, England

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By Robin W and Ann Woods

A comprehensive photographic guide to the Falkland Islands, covering the regularly occurring birds and mammals most likely to be encountered.

The layout and text are written in an easy-to-read style, with notes on distribution, population and conservation status.

43 stunning photographic plates illustrating the key features for identification accompany the text.

Published: 2006 by WILDGuides Ltd

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By Ranulph Fiennes

The real story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived by the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".

Published: 2003 by Hodder & Stoughton, London

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By David M. Wilson

The life of Edward Wilson.

Published: 2000 by Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, England

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By Sara Wheeler

The life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard.

Published: 2001 by Vintage, London, England

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By Robert Keith Headland

A historical chronology of all Antarctic regions compiled during 25 years at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. This book lists the voyages to the far southern parts of the Earth, in particular to Antarctica, from those directly engaged in exploration and research, sealers and whalers exploiting its resources, to those accidental discoveries made by early merchants blown off course.

The author is happy to provide signed copies on request.

Published: 2009 by Bernard Quaritch Ltd

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By Dave Reay

Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humankind faces in the twenty-first century. The next hundred years could see coastlines and islands submerged, and a surge in heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, floods and therefore in pests, disease, famine and displacement. This book argues that while government and industry dither, we could all cut our personal greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent - the level necessary to halt the current trend according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

After summarizing today's state of affairs, scientifically and politically, climatologist Dave Reay explores the climate impact of housing, gardening, food, money, work, transport, and even death. Packed with provocative case studies, calculations and lifestyle comparisons, this entertaining and authoritative book makes the complexities of climatology understandable and challenges readers to rethink their notions of 'doing their bit'. The paperback edition features a new preface from Mark Lynas, author of "High Tide: News From a Warming World.".

Published: 2005 by MacMillan

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By Susan Solomon

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Published: 2001 by Yale University Press, New Haven and London

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By Peter Speak

Frank Debenham - 'Deb' to all who knew him - was one of the yougest members of Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-1913. Largely overlooked by history, he was nevertheless at the heart of that great adventure, during which he had his own life-threatening experiences. He was destined to go on to far greater things, for which he was awarded both the OBE and the Polar Medal, and to make his mark indelibly on Cambridge history. This thoroughly researched account is supported by illuminating extracts of correspondence, as well as numerous photographs and maps, some published here for the first time.

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By C. S. Wright

List of pendulum observations from the British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913.

Published: 1921 by Harrison and Sons Ltd., London, England

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By David Tatham

The Dictionary of Falklands Biography describes people concerned with the history of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia from the first discoverers in the 16th century up to the eve of the Falklands conflict of 1982. Entries range from brief notes on lesser personalities to essays of 3,000 words on some of the leading figures.
The Dictionary contains great explorers like James Cook, Bougainville, Bellingshausen and Ernest Shackleton; political figures - ministers, a king, one saint, British, French, Argentine and Spanish governors; and naval commanders involved in heroic exploration and dramatic battles. Special interests include students of natural history and the environment, from Charles Darwin to recent ornithologists; geologists; farmers and agriculturalists; sailors, whalers and sealers; philatelists and a wide range of native Falkland Islanders from pillars of the community to the decidedly eccentric.

Published: 2009 by

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By David Wilson and J. V. Skelton

500 images from one of the great heroic age Antarctic Expeditions with diary quotations from Chief Engineer R.A. Skelton and Dr E.A Wilson
all Royalties will be donated to support the work of the Scott Polar Reseach Institute.

Published: 2001 by Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, England

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By David Wilson and C.J.Wilson

This volume contains the bulk of Edward Wilson's non-Antarctic work - from the Notebooks and other sources - reproduced in chronological order, showing his development as an artist. There is also a selection of quotations from the Notebooks' observations and annotations, in keeping with the scrapbook flavour of many of the pages.

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By Anthea Arnold

Once the pole had been 'conquered' by Amundsen and Scott, the next great journey was the crossing of the Antarctic continent, first attempted by Filchner in 1912 and then by Shackleton in 1914. As part of the International Geophysical Year, the Trans-Antarctic Expedition was set up, with Vivian Fuchs in charge. He would start from a base on the Weddell Sea and after reaching the Pole continue to the Ross Sea, using supply depots laid by a New Zealnad team, led by the conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. In January 1956, an advance party of eight men was left at Shackleton base to build accommodation, explore and lay depots to ease the passage of Fuch's team the following year.
The achievement of this expedition still resonates today but the near death experience of the Advance Party at Shackleton base has been largely forgotten. The eight men left only just survived in a dreadful Antarctic winter, living by day in a sno-cat crate and sleeping in tents at night while trying to erect a poorly designed hut with inadequate manpower and equipment. The loss of much of their stores put their survival on a knife edge.

Published: 2007 by The Erskine Press

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By Huw Lewis-Jones

This unique book is the first to examine the history and role of polar exploration photography and showcases the very first polar photographs of 1845 through to images of the present day. It features the first portraits of explorers, some of the earliest photographs of the Inuit, the first polar photographs to appear in a book and rare images never before published from many of the Heroic-Age Antarctic expeditions. Almost all the historic imagery - daguerreotypes, magic lantern slides, glass plate negatives and images from private albums - have never been before the public eye.

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By Meredith Hooper

This remarkable book tells the story of Antarctic warming and how scientists are piecing together the jigsaw of causes and impacts, in particular, though a study of the Adélie penguins at Palmer. 'The Ferocious Summer' memorably brings to us all a crucial understanding of what is happening now, to the planet we share.

Published: 2007 by Profile Books Ltd

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By John Kelly

As climate change and the prospect of relentlessly rising sea levels threaten communities around the world, artist and writer John Kelly records this process in words and images. From the high altiplano of Bolivia, through Newfoundland, the Arctic regions of Alaska and Svalbard, to the Baltic and Orkney, he evokes the dramatic natural transformations affecting our planet and their impact on people and landscapes.

Published: 2009 by Signal Books

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By Charles Swithinbank

The first international expedition (1949-52) through the eyes of its youngest member.

Published: 1999 by The Book Guild Ltd., Lewes, Sussex, England

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By Charles Swithinbank

A lifetime of exploration and research in the polar regions.

Published: 1998 by The Book Guild Ltd, Sussex, England

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By Leif Mills

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages. Bitter cold. Long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful....." What sort of men would this apocryphal advertisement attract?
None but the brave. Frank Wild was one of those Argonauts who battled against the elements in the frozen lands. When some of the men who had been isolated with the Ross Sea party were eventually rescued, the captain described them as: "Just about the wildest looking gang of men I have ever seen in my life. Smoke-bleared eyes looked out from grey, haggard faces; their hair was matted and uncut; their beards were impregnated with soot and grease. Their speech was jerky, semi-hysterical and almost unintelligible...." Despite the unending hardships, Wild undertook more antarctic exploration voyages than any of his contemporaries over a period of twenty years. This is his story.

Published: 2007 by Caedmon of Whitby, Yorkshire, England

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By Stig-Tore Lunde

Grytviken is situated on the sub-antarctic island South Georgia, where Norwegian whalers established a small community. Theodor Andersson's photographs provide an exiting glimpse of daily life in around 1925. Proceeds from this book are donated to the South Georgia heritage Trust Fund.

Published: 2004 by Institut Minos, Sandefjord, Norway

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By Michael Smith

First biography for over 30 years of the enigmatic and private Captain Oates.

Published: 2002 by Spellmount, Staplehurst, Kent

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By Angie Butler

Ice Tracks lays bare today's Polar world. It inspires and informs and points the would-be Polar adventurer in the right direction. No iceberg is left unturned.
For the rest, who would rather leave the 100mph kebatic winds, temperatures of minus 60 deg centigrade, crevasses and towering pressure ridges to the more adventurous souls, curl up in front of the fire and enjoy a ripping good read.

Published: 2008 by The Erskine Press

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By Frank Debenham

Stories of Scott's Last Expedition

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By Robert Keith Headland

South Georgia is a remote and beautiful island with a varied and intriguing history. This extensively illustrated book is the only comprehensive account of the island, combining historical, geographical, commercial, scientific and political events in a remarkable tour de force. The account is written by a former officer of the British Antarctic Survey, Robert Headland, who spent several periods of scientific duty on the island, the first of these in 1977 greatly stimulating his interest in all aspects of this unique environment. He was present on the island in 1982 during the invasion by the Argentinians, and was personally involved with the events there until he surrendered the civilian population of the scientific station and was taken prisoner by Argentinian forces. Details of these and other events connected with the invasion are included in this book.

Signed copies by the author are available on request.

Published: 1992 by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

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By Julian Dowdeswell and M Hambrey

A richly illustrated insight into the evolution of the Arctic landscape, with superb photographs from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Greenland, Svalbard and the Russian Arctic.

Published: 2002 by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

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By Robert Falcon Scott

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Max Jones.

Published: 2006 by Oxford University Press

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By Jones Max

Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Captain Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age.

Published: 2003 by Oxford University Press

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By Kelly Tyler-Lewis

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance, while a ship called the Aurora sailed into the Ross Sea to create a lifeline of vital food and fuel depots to supply the epic crossing. Yet all went tragically wrong when the Aurora broke free of her moorings in an Antarctic gale and stranded ten men ashore. Left with little more than the clothing on their backs and scavenged equipment, the men vowed to carry on in the face of impossible odds. Meanwhile the rest of the Aurora crew, cast adrift at the mercy of the elements, battled for survival. The lost men struggled to save themselves and carry out their mission with little hope of rescue...

Published: 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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By Sara Wheeler

Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler uncovers the beautiful, brutal reality of the Arctic.

When she puts up her tent on the top of the Greenland ice sheet, she experiences climate change at the sharp (and cold) end. The Magnetic North is a spicy confection of history, science and reflection in which Wheeler meditates on the role of the Arctic in public and private. The fragmented circumpolar lands were a repository of myth long before the scientists and oilmen showed up (not to mention desperado explorers who ate their own shoes), and the hinterland north of the tree line has fed litereary imaginations from Dickens to Chekhov. The Magnetic North tells of all this, plus gulag ghosts, old and new Russia, colliding cultures and bioaccumulated toxins in polar bears.

Published: 2009 by Jonathan Cape, London, England

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By Leif Mills

The Foreword to this book has been written by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

"It is now one hundred years since the days of what has been called 'the heroic age of polar exploration': the age when the North-West Passage was first navigated, two Americans claimed to have reached the North Pole, the South Pole was reached by Roald Amundsen and then by Captain Scott and an attempt was made to traverse the continent of Antarctica.

It is not easy now for people to realise just how difficult and dangerous those explorations were at that time. Much of the area over which they travelled was unknown and had not been travelled before or even seen by man. There were few reliable maps - and none at all in some cases. There was insufficient knowledge of the types of food needed in extreme conditions and little understanding of the dangers of scurvy. Above all there was no means of contact between the explorers and the ouside world. There was no radio, no GPRS, no aircraft to lift explorers out of dangerous conditions.

When Shackleton's party was returning from having reached to within 97 geographical miles of the South Pole, no one at his base at Cape Royds could possibly know where he was at any time or whether anything had happened to them. As it was, they were dangerously late in getting back.

Scott's party was hit by appallingly bad weather on their return journey from the South Pole. No one knew what had happened to them until 8 months after they had died when the search party found their bodies. No one knew that where they pitched their final camp was only 11 miles from the supplies of One Ton Depot.

Leif Mills, whose biography of the Antarctic explorer Frank Wild was published 9 years ago, has written in this book the lives of 2 of those explorers from the 'heroic age'. Both Alister Forbes Mackay and Cecil Henry Meares were key members of the expeditions which they joined, yet their names are hardly remembered today and little is known about them. Neither had children and neither wrote any memoirs. Both, though, deserve to be remembered for what they did do and the part they played in polar exploration.

Mackay and Meares were of a similar age and both had served in the Second Boer War. Mackay served in two polar expeditions but went on to die a tragic death at an early age. Meares served with Scott's second expedition and then served with distinction throughout the First World War. He died at the age of sixty.

I hope this book will go someway to explaining what these two men did and why they did it.".

Published: 2008 by Caedmon of Whitby, Yorkshire, England

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By Roald Amundsen

"My Life as an Explorer" is a classic of Polar literature, written by the one man to do more to further the exploration of both Polar regions than any other person. First sailing to the Antarctic in the 1899 Belgain expedition, Amundsen never lost his passion for exploring, following this trip with a journey around the top of Canada to prove the existence of the North West Passage between 1903 and 1906. Setting sail for the Antarctic a full month or so after Scott, Amundsen still managed to beat the British team to the Pole by a full month. Making a lot of money out of shipping during the First World War, Amundsen followed his epic journeys by being only the second man to travel round the top of Siberia from Atlantic to Pacific oceans, then flying over the North Pole by airship. The first man to travel to both ends of the world, Amundsen died in a plane crash in 1928, while searching for a missing polar expedition.

Published: 2008 by Amberley Publishing

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By Tom Smith

COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS EARLY LIFE, ADOPTION BY THE GIPSYS; HIS TRAVELS DURING EIGHTEEN VOYAGES TO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD, DURING WHICH HE WAS FIVE TIMES SHIPWRECKED; THRICE ON A DESOLATE ISLAND NEAR THE SOUTH POLE, ONCE ON THE COAST OF ENGLAND AND ONCE ON THE COAST OF AFRICA.

HE TOOK PART IN SEVERAL BATTLES ON THE COAST OF SPAIN AND PERU AND WITNESSED SEVERAL OTHERS; WAS ONCE TAKEN BY PIRATES, FROM WHOM HE WAS PROVIDENTIALLY DELIVERED, PLACED IN A SMALL BOAT AND SET ADRIFT AT A GREAT DISTANCE FROM LAND, WITHOUT THE MEANS FOR CONDUCTING HER TO THE SHORE. HE AFTERWARDS TOOK PART IN FOUR MINOR ENGAGEMENTS WITH SAVAGES NEAR NEW GUINEA.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, 1844

Thomas Smith was born around 1801, under another (yet undetermined) name. At the age of seven or eight he ran away from home, first living with a band of Gypsies and then going to sea on a collier. The rest of his life was at sea. He was serving on naval transports in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars before absconding. Then he made four Antarctic sealing voyages, three to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and one to the South Shetland Islands on their discovery. The Falkland Islands were a port of call on the way south. His ship was wrecked thrice during these adventures.

Thence when serving in the Sperm Whale industry in the Pacific Ocean he became associated with the revolutionary wars in South America to the east and the Maori conflicts to the west. He landed on the Galapagos Islands and Easter Island while following whales through the Pacific islands from New Zealand to Japan.

On a subsequent voyage to African waters Smith was shipwrecked off the coast of Mozambique and, after rescue, ended up in Massachusetts, United States. There, in deteriorating health, he wrote his memoirs which were probably published posthumously.

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By Beau Riffenburgh

Ernest Shackleton and the extraordinary story of the 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition.

Published: 2004 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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By David M. Wilson

To celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration comes "Nimrod Illustrated". The book is a remarkable collage of expedition photographs, paintings and ephemera in a deliberate reminiscence of the expedition scrapbooks kept by so many of the expedition participants at the time. Many of the images are rarely seen, if ever before published, whilst others are better known. Together with quotations from the diaries of expedition participants, they tell the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 which saw the first use of ponies and motor cars in the Antarctic; achieved the first ascent of Mount Erebus; achieved the first attainment of the south Magnetic Pole; and, took Shackleton within 100 miles of the South Geographic Pole to attain a dramatic new 'Farthest South' record. This was the expedition that made Shackleton's name as an explorer and for which he was awarded his knighthood. Edited by Dr D M Wilson, "Nimrod Illustrated" is a treat for anyone interested in Shackleton, the Antarctic, polar exploration or the atmosphere of the Edwardian age. It is a part of the well regarded series commenced with "Discovery Illustrated: Pictures from Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition" (2001).

Published: 2009 by Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, England

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By Fergus Fleming

In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an island of basalt in a warm crystal sea. Explorers who tried to penetrate the real icy wastes failed or died. But after Sir John Franklin disappeared with all his men in 1845, serious efforts began to be made to find the true Northernmost point of the globe. Fergus Fleming's new book is a vivid, witty history of the disasters that ensued.

Published: 2001 by Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, England

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By Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen

This book provides a history of all the wintering stations in North-East Greenland, used by trappers as well as scientists and members of the Sirius sledge patrol. The trappers, usually Danish and Norwegian, brought with them provisions for one or two years as well as a good deal of courage and endurance. The aim of the trapping was to collect the winter skins of foxes and polar bears to be sold in Europe and support the future at home. Individual trappers often wintered for several years in a row.

Published: 2008 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Kari Herbert (editor)

Evocatively written and illustrated with the remarkable paintings of Sir Wally Herbert, The Polar World captures the spirit of the Arctic and the Antarctic as never seen before - through the eyes of a man who is the bridge between the heroic age of exploration and modern adventure; a visionary who has walked in the footsteps of all the greatest explorers, and learned the art of survival from the Inuit themselves.

Published: 2007 by Polarworld

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By Richard McElrea & David Harrowfield

The Ross Sea Party (1914-17) of Sir Ernest Shackleton

When SirErnest Shackleton's dreams of crossing Antarctica foundered with his expedition ship 'Endurance' in the ice of the Weddel Sea in October 1915, he could only wonder what had become of his support party on the other side of the continent.

This book tells that story. The task of the Ross Sea component of the expedition was to lay the all-important depots in support of the traverse party to be led by Shackleton.

Remarkably 'Polar Castaways' provides the first in-depth account of the Ross Sea party, the drift of 'Aurora' and the relief expedition under the command of polar veteran Captain J. K. Davis.

This book fills one of the last major gaps in the literature of the 'heroic age' of polar exploration.

Published: 2004 by Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand

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By Michael Smith

Sir James Mann Wordie, born in Glasgow in 1889, was the elder statesman of polar exploration - the link between the heroic Edwardian Age of Shackleton and Scott and the mechanised modern era which opened up Antarctica and the Arctic.
This is the first full biography of Wordie to be written, and it makes use of a wide variety of official sources, of the personal recollections of family, friends and colleagues, and of previously unpublished papers and diaries, most notably those of Wordie himself.

Published: 2004 by Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh

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By Jennifer Murray

Many would have called it a day after a near fatal helicopter crash in Antarctica, but helicopter pilots Jennifer Murray and Colin Bodill were determined to complete what they had set out to do: claim a new world record as the first to fly a helicopter around the world via the Poles.

Polar First is the magnificent story of Jennifer and Colin's second, and this time successful, attempt. The five-and-a-half month journey took them over some the world's most beautiful and yet hostile places, from the extremes of desert temperatures and the intense cold of the polar regions to the most dangerous waters on earth, and finally to stand on the bottom and the top of the world.

Besides going for the record, Jennifer and Colin were working with the orphan charity SOS Children's Villages and, in conjunction with the Royal Geographical Society, they ran a website for schools called Passport to the Poles, raising awareness about, and giving students the opportunity to take part in, environmental projects. Jennifer and Colin visited many SOS Villages and schools along their route.

Published: 2008 by p3

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By H.G.R. King and Ann Savours

Reminiscences about Brian Birley Roberts

This book has now been reduced from £5.00.

Published: 1995 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By David Yelverton

The saga of the pioneer Antarctic Peninsula expeditions 1897-1905.

Published: 2004 by Polar Publishing Limited, Guildford, Surrey, UK

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By Beau Riffenburgh

Racing with Death tells the breathtaking story of Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions, in which he more than once narrowly escaped with his life. His solitary struggle against the odds on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition was described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "The greatest survival story in the history of exploration".

Mawson had been a key member of Shackleton's 1907-09 Nimrod expedition, when he was nearly lost down a crevasse. In 1911 his own Australasian Antarctic Expedition set off for the great white south, establishing base at Cape Denison, which proved to be the windiest place on Earth. Mawson sent out numerous sledging parties to explore different areas. But when first one and then the other of the two members of Mawson's party died, he was left to struggle the hundreds of miles back to base on his own. Despite terrible hardships he made it, only to find that the rescue ship had sailed away, leaving him to face another year in the Antarctic.

Mawson later led a two-year expedition that explored hundreds of miles of unknown coastline. Scientifically and geographically speaking, Mawsons' expeditions were truly groundbreaking, and established Australia as a key player in the Antarctic. Mawson himself, who had complex relationships with both Scott and Shackleton, was changed utterly by his struggles in that harshest of environments and his story, brilliantly told by Beau Riffenburgh, is a fascinating insight into the human psyche under extreme duress.

Published: 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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By Piers Vitebsky

A voyage of discovery into the life of a remote aboriginal community in the Siberian Arctic, where the reindeer has been a part of daily life since Palaeolithic times.

Published: 2005 by Harper Collins Publishers

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By Emily Shackleton and Hugh Robert Mill

The private correspondence of Emily Shackleton and Hugh Robert Mill, 1922-33. Edited by Michael Rosove.

Published: 2007 by Adélie Books

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By R. W. Richards

After failing to reach the South Pole by only 97 miles on his 'Nimrod' expedition, Ernest Shackelton decided that on his next trip he would be even more adventurous - he would cross the Antarctic continent via the Pole.

His ship, the 'Endurance', would land the crossing party in the Weddell Sea whilst 'Aurora' would land a team in McMurdo Sound whose task it would be to lay food depots every 60 miles, as far south as the Beardmore Glacier.

The story of the'Endurance' is well known but the struggles of the Ross Sea Party have almost been ignored - unfairly so. It is one of the really notable polar journeys - ten men marooned with none of their own fuel, clothes or stores, yet by improvisation managing to stock depots for men who would never come.

Three men were lost and all the party suffered appalling privations before they were rescued. Their determination to succeed against all odds epitomises the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Published: 2003 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Michael C. Tarver

This is the story of one of Britain's most famous expedition ships put together from accounts recorded by men who sailed in her. It covers a sixty year history of the ship built at Dundee by a famous Scottish shipbuilding company for the late 19th century days of whaling and sealing before coal gas and electricity took over from animal oils in domestic and commercial use. 'Terra Nova' operated from her own port of Dundee and afterwards St. John's, Newfoundland, when a sea-going career in the sealfishery during those times brought a hard way of life with many human losses and tragedies.

Foreword by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal.

Published: 2006 by Pendragon Maritime Publications - Brixham

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By David Crane

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Published: 2005 by Harper Collins Publishers

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By Anthony M. Johnson

The Foreword to the book has been written by Sir Peter Scott, Scott's son.

"This monograph makes a welcome addition to our knowledge of Capt. Scott's second Antarctic Expedition - The British Antarctic Expedition (1910). For the first time due attention has been accorded to the role of Cardiff in the fortunes of the Expedition. The Cardiff Docksmen provided support for the enterprise on a scale quite unmatched by any town or group.

In this well researched study, it is suggested that without the support which derived from Cardiff, the Expedition would not have sailed, let alone have achieved the fame and fascination which its tragic ending continues to arouse. In recognition of Cardiff's special contribution to the Expedition, Capt Scott designated Cardiff as the port to which the Terra Nova would return at the end of her voyage.

Throughout the course of a careful examination of the unique connection between Cardiff and the British Antarctic Expedition (1910), there emerges much valuable information about the Docks and Civic communities in Cardiff in the early 1900s.".

Published: 2006 by The Captain Scott Society, Cardiff

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By Janet West and Arthur G. Credland

Scrimshaw is the art of the whaler and is the special name given to the large variety of artefacts made principally from baleen, whale bone, whales' teeth and walrus teeth. The material might be cut or carved, but the majority of pieces have incised decoration executed with the simple tools of the seaman, the blade of a pocket knife or the point of a sail needle. The results are charming examples of folk art, now eagerly sought and collected on both sides of the Atlantic.

Published: 1995 by Hutton Press Ltd

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By Jean Goodman

From the circus to the ballet, from Royalty to Antarctica, Edward Seago painted his way across the diversity and grandeur of English life. He wrote nine books and collaborated on three volumes of verse and pictures with the Poet Laureate, John Masefield. John Seago followed a differnt course. He spent most of his life in Africa working with animals, organising humane catching and shipping of wildlife from Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda to British and other zoos. The brothers, each in their own ay, lived life to the full.

With a foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.

Published: 2002 by The Erskine Press

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By Ann Savours

The quest for a North West Passage through the Arctic seas to China and the riches of the Orient began as long ago as the sixteenth century when northern Europeans found the southern route around the Cape of Good Hope barred by the Spanish and Portuguese. It took a further 300 years, as well as the extraordinary bravery and resilience of the explorers, for this elusive route to be finally discovered by Franklin during his famous but ill-fated voyage in the 1840s. Not until the twentieth century was the passage finally traversed by ship.

Based largely on the narratives, diaries and letters of the explorers themselves and containing illustrations never previously published, Ann Savours' work is indeed a fitting testimony to the bravery and resourcefulness of men who lived in a harder and more uncertain age than our own..

Published: 1999 by Chatham Publishing, London

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By Jonathan Shackleton

Eighty years after his death, the legend of Ernest Shackleton and the extraordinary story of the Endurance South Pole expedition still hold a compelling grip on the public imagination. Trapped in drifting polar pack ice, Ernest Shackleton and his crew fought for survival against all the odds. When the Endurance was finally crushed, they were stranded on ice-floes for more than a year before reaching Elephant Island in April 1916. From there Shackleton and his five men embarked on the most remarkable rescue mission in maritime history, sailing to south Georgia across eight hundred miles of the world's roughest seas in a small open boat.

Despite failing to realize his dream of reaching the South Pole, Shackleton's story lives on because of his unique qualities of leadership and the fact that all his men survived. This compelling narrative reveals the profound influence of Shackleton's Irish and Quaker roots, offering a vivid portrait of a man whose ambition was tempered by his flawed humanity and egalitarianism. Here too are the untold stories of Shackleton's upbringing in Kildare; his time in the Merchant Navy; his 1901 voyage on the discovery with Scott; his 1907 Nimrod expedition; his marriage and love affairs; his life as public figure and politician; and the haunting story of his final, fatal expedition on the Quest.

Drawing on family records, diaries and letters - and hitherto unpublished photographs and archive material - this mesmerizing biography takes us beyond the myth to Shackleton the man, for whom 'Optimisim is true moral courage,' and whose greatest triumph was that of life over death.

Published: 2002 by Lilliput Press, Dublin

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By Robert Burton and Stephen Venables

This booklet is produced by Robert Burton in aid of the restauration of the Manager's House, the "Villa", at Stromness whaling station, where Shackleton and his two companions completed their journey to get help for their comrades on Elephant Island.

Published: 2001 by Robert Burton

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By Bjorn L. Basberg

This book reviews the history of South Georgia from the early discoveries, the sealing industry of the 19th century, the whaling industry of the 20th century and the development afterwards, when the attitude towards the former whaling stations gradually shifted from being seen as mere scrap to being considered cultural heritage.

Published: 2004 by Novus forlag

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By Ludwig Kohl-Larsen

Along with his wife and a photographer the author spent a summer camped in various parts of the island, exploring the interior on skis, collecting natural history specimens and filming. This is the story of this private expedition, translated for the first time from German. Kohl-Larsen went on to become an important anthropologist, studying the Lapps in Scandinavia, and nomadic tribes first in Persia and later in East Africa.

Published: 2003 by Bluntisham Books, Huntingdon, England

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By Frank Hurley

Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917. The photographs of Frank Hurley from the archive of the Royal Geographical Society, London, the State Library of New South Wales and the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

Published: 2001 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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By Ernest Shackleton

This is Ernest Shackleton's gripping account of the doomed Endurance voyage. Setting out on the eve of World War I, he wanted to be the first to cross the last unknown continent but the exploration was plagued with problems.

Published: 2004 by Penguin Books, London, England

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By Sally and Jerome Poncet

The first edition of Southern Ocean Cruising was written in 1991 to provide guidance to visitors, and the yachting community in particular, on environmental regulations that apply in Antarctica and in the sub-Antarctic islands. The comprehensive revisions and updates in this edition reflect important changes to the regulations that apply in the region, including to legislation, safety provisions, environmental protection guidelines, protected areas, historic sites and station locations. Practical guidance is given on minimizing impacts and on where to find additional information resources. Aimed at expeditions, but useful to all wanting to help protect this remote and still largely pristine wilderness.

Published: 2007 by Environmental Research and Assessment Ltd

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By David J C MacKay

We have an addiction to fossil fuels, and it's not sustainable. How can we replace fossil fuels? How can we ensure security of energy supply? How can we solve climate change?

We're often told that "huge amounts of renewable power are available" - wind, wave, tide and so forth. But our current power consumption is also huge! To understand our sustainable energy crisis, we need to know how the one "huge" compares with the other. We need numbers, not adjectives.

This book shows how to estimate the numbers, and what those numbers depend on. Taking the United Kingdom as an example, it asks first "could Britain live on renewable energy resources alone?" and second "how can a country like Britain make a realistic post-fossil-fuel energy plane that adds up?" It answers these questions in detail, bringing home the size of the changes that society must undergo if sustainable living is to be achieved. It's not going to be easy to make an energy plan that adds up - but it is possible.

Published: 2009 by UIT, Cambridge

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By Pamela Davis

Booklet from the Cambridge Review, November 1996.

Published: 1996 by The Cambridge Review, Cambridge, UK

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By Janet Crawford

Compared to some of the famous 'heroic-era' of Antarctic exploration (1895-1917), less is known of the expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink to Cape Adare where the first wintering on the continent took place in 1899. This book is only the third account to be released on the expedition, the others being Borchgrevink's and Bernacchi's narratives both published in 1901.

In 'That First Antarctic Winter', Janet Crawford grand-daughter of physicist Louis C. Bernacchi one of those who wintered at Cape Adare, re-tells through his unpublished diaries, the account of the pioneering expedition in which ten men became "irascible and impossible towards one another". Yet inspite of personality and other problems including the death of Norwegian scientist Nicolai Hanson, many discoveries new to science and the geography of Antarctica were made by an expedition with half of its members under 25 years of age. This is an account of triumph and tragedy.

Published: 1998 by South Latitude Research Limited, Christchurch, New Zealand

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By Jean Baptiste Charcot

The first French expedition to the Antarctic (1903-1905). Translated by A.W. Billinghurst with an introduction by Maurice Raraty. Originally published in French, 12 December 1906 by Ernest Flammarion, Paris, as Le "Francais" au Pole Sud.

Published: 2004 by Bluntisham Books, Huntingdon, England

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By Gavin Francis

The stark, vast beauty of the remote European Arctic has been the focus of human dreams and voyages of exploration for thousands of years. In a compelling blend of travel writing, history and mythology, Gavin Francis offers this unique portrait of the northern fringes of Europe.

His journey begins in the Shetland Isles and takes him to the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, then Svalbard and on to Lapland. Following in the footsteps of the region's earliest pioneers, Francis reflects on how Arctic Europe is adapting to the challenges of the 21st century - including the threat of climate change - and provides sharply observed insights into the lives of the people he encounters along the way.

Published: 2008 by Polygon

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By Alfred S. McLaren

A first-hand account of the historic under-ice survey of the Siberian continental shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651).

Published: 2008 by University of Alabama Press

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By Michael Smith

Tom Crean is the unsung and inspirational hero of Antarctic exploration; now, for the first time, his astonishing life of adventure, heroism and survival against the odds is told. 'An Unsung Hero' reveals how he volunteered for Polar exploration, was one of the last to see Scott alive before his ill-fated expedition reached the South Pole and returned to bury him in the snow months later. It recounts the leading role Crean played in Shackleton's legendary 'Endurance' expedition, during which he sailed the small open 'James Caird' across the violent Southern Ocean, and his involvement in the historic crossing of South Georgia's glaciers.

Published: 2000 by Headline Book Publishing, London

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By Debbie Summers

An updated version of this popular book - a 'must have' guide for anyone visiting this amazing part of the world.

The Falkland Islands are among the few places left that can be described as "off the beaten track". Most first-timers to the Islands are pleasantly surprised. The temperature climate (with occasional strong winds) coupled with breathtaking scenery, a fascinating way of life and abundant wildlife all contribute.

Twenty sites are described in this second edition, most are currently visited by cruise vessels. There are four sites outlined (Grand Jason, Second Passage. Grave Cove and Pebble Island) which potentially may attract the cruise industry and one which is a common destination for personnel from Mount Pleasant (Bertha's Beach).

132pp A5 landscape, spiral bound, soft cover.

A significant portion of the profits from sales of this title is used for conservation in the region.

Published: 2005 by Falklands Conservation

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By Sally Poncet and Kim Crosbie

Information on the history, vegetation and wildlife of all the islands' most popular visitor sites, with maps. The first such book for South Georgia. 178pp. A5 landscape, spiral bound, soft cover.

Published: 2005 by WILDGuides Ltd

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By Charles Swithinbank

'One of the 20-tonne sledges had become frozen to the snow and could not be moved. Liosha put several sticks of dynamite under one runner and lit a length of quarry fuse. We retreated some distance before a colossal explosion shattered the runner and tossed heavy shards of steel high into the air. Many pieces fell among us. Glancing round first to check that nobody was injured, our little group collapsed in fits of laughter. The sledge, however was now unusable'.

Published: 2002 by The Book Guild Ltd., Lewes, Sussex, England

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By David Walton and Bruce Pearson

British art from Antarctica, 1775-2006

Exhibition's catalogue, colour photographs, 56 pages, paperback.

Published: 2006 by Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting XXIX

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By Henry Huntington

In Alaska, a key regulatory conflict exists between the needs of the traditional Inupiat Eskimo economy based on subsistence hunting and the management regimes of government agencies responsible for conservation of the hunted species. This has often led to serious tension between Eskimo and Regulator, and to ineffective management of the wildlife resource. This book addresses this important issue and provides a well-detailed and fascinating case study of how such a mismatch of goals and objectives can be constructively reconciled.

Published: 1992 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Peter Speak

William Speirs Bruce was one of the foremost polar scientists of the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration, yet he remains largely unknown. This first complete biography reviews his life and work, particularly in the Arctic where he carried out his most successful research with the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. Illustrated with expedition pictures from Bruce's own negatives and originals taken by his colleagues.

Published: 2003 by National Museums of Scotland

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By Peter Mott

More than a quarter of a century before the Falklands War took place, the dispute with the Argentina and Chile over sovereignty of the Falklands and the British Dependencies in Antarctica had underlined the need for accurate maps of the region to replace the existing fragmentary charts compiled from surveys made by past sealers and explorers.

Published: 1986 by Wheaton & Co. Ltd

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By Isobel Williams

"In March 1912, in a tent on the bitter Antarctic wasteland, three men lay dying slowly, overcome by malnutrition, dehydration and hypothermia. Outside the tent a blizzard howled." So begins Isobel Williams' enthralling biography of the enigmatic explorer, artist and scientist, Edward Wilson. Born in 1872, Edward Wilson was Junior Surgeon and Vertebrate Zoologist on the British Antarctic Expedition of 1901-4, and Chief of Scientific staff on Captain Scott's last ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1910-12. The only officer with Scott on both expeditions, he formed an extremely close and influential partnership with him and became his loyal confidant. Here, for the first time, a full biography of the man who Captain Scott once wrote: "How truly grateful I am to have such a man with me.".

Published: 2008 by The History Press Ltd

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By Herbert Ponting

The Terra Nova Expedition 1910-1913. The photographs of Herbert Ponting from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society, London, and the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. Foreword by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Published: 2004 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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By Apsley Cherry-Garrard

This is the story of Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic. The author, the youngest member of Scott's British Antarctic Expedition, relates the expeditions departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913.

Published: 2003 by Pimlico, London

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