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.

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 LESLIE BOYD RYAN

In 1956, artist James Houston came with his wife, Alma, to Cape Dorset as the northern service officer with the Canadian government's Department of Northern Affairs. One of his duties was to foster the production of carvings and other handicrafts by the Inuit residents. By 1959, the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative had been formed, laying the groundwork for a legendary printmaking tradition. Today, the annual release of Cape Dorset prints, produced by the Co-operative's Kinngait Studios, is eagerly anticipated by collectors from around the world.

Published: 2007 by Pomegranate

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By Frances Hatch

This is about a journey made by artist, Frances Hatch, who turned 50 and knew she needed to see Antarctica. The trip only lasted a fortnight and yet years on she is still pondering the significance of what she witnessed. Gathered here are notes from sketchbooks, photographic records, paintings and drawings. Her thoughts, insights and discoveries are distilled in these pages.

Published: 2009 by www.kolourkrazy.com

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By David M. Wilson

Edward Wilson BA, MB (Cantab.), FZS was born in 1872. Educated at Cheltenham College, Caius College, Cambridge and St George's Hospital, he became a highly regarded self-taught artist and field naturalist. Contracting tuberculosis from his mission work in London slums, he nevertheless recovered to be appointed as the Assistant surgeon and Vertebrate Zoologist to the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) aboard Discovery, under Robert Falcon Scott.

Upon his return he was appointed Field Observer to the Grouse Disease Inquiry and illustrated wildlife books. In 1910 he returned to the Antarctic with Captain Scott aboard Terra Nova as Chief of the Scientific Staff. He died with his comrades on the return from the South Pole in 1912.

Published: 2012 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.

Published: 2004 by Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, England

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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.

SPRI's touring exhibition may also be of interest:
http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/facetoface/touring.html.

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

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By Bryan Alexander

A beautiful collection of photographs all taken by Bryan and Cherry Alexander illustrating various topics in the Arctic, Arctic Hunters in Winter, Arctic Hunters in Summer, Arctic Herders in Winter, Arctic Herders in Summer and Spirits of the Arctic.

Published: 2011 by Arctica Publishing

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By David Hempleman-Adams

The names of Scott and Shackleton are synonymous with the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. This book, published to coincide with the 100th anniversaries of these brave if ill-fated expeditions, is unique in viewing them through the eyes of the expeditions' official photographers - Herbert Ponting, who travelled with Scott on the Terra Nova in 1910, and Frank Hurley, who was with Shackleton on the Endurance in 1914.

Published: 2009 by Royal Collection Publications

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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 Louisa Young

Kathleen Scott was a celebrated sculptor, wife of Captain Scott of the Antarctic, mother of Peter Scott and friend of Asquith, Rodin, Isadora Duncan and George Bernard Shaw. She lived a life extraordinary for her times and rich in adventure.

This biography, by her grand-daughter the novelist Louisa Young, captures the energy and spirit both of the woman and of the times in which she lived; as an art student in Paris in the early 1900s through to the tragedy of Captain Scott's death in 1912 and her second marriage to a cabinet minister in the 1920s.

Published: 2012 by Hydraulic Press of London

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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 Mr Anthony Plant, Heather Lane and Robert Douglas Smith

Sir Sidney Nolan is possibly Australia's most significant and internationally acclaimed artist. A special exhibition of his paintings of Antarctica is being shown at the Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute from 30 September to 18 December 2010.
Only a few of Nolan’s Antarctic works remain in Britain. They are part of a series painted in 1964 after Nolan visited the Antarctic as a guest of the US Navy during Operation ‘Deep Freeze’. The majority of the series is held in museums and galleries worldwide.
With the support of the Sidney Nolan Trust <http://www.sidneynolantrust.org/> and the Australian High Commission, the Polar Museum is delighted to present a selection from the small number of Nolan's Antarctic works which remain in Britain.
At the Adelaide festival in 1962, Nolan's friend Alan Moorehead, the Australian journalist and author, suggested a trip to the Antarctic. Moorehead, a freelance journalist for The New Yorker, then arranged for them to tour the US Naval and scientific bases in Antarctica. The visit became the inspiration for a major series of 68 paintings which Nolan completed in his studio in London. These vivid landscapes and portraits of the scientists and staff he encountered on the bases have never been shown in Cambridge before. The catalogue lists and describes the works featured in the exhibition.

Published: 2010 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, 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 JANE USSHER

Despite the extensive decay which the buildings and contents are suffering, these humble wooden buildings contain the most evocative treasure troves of objects from early Antarctic exploration still in situ. They are the jewels in the crown of Antarctic heritage. Symbolic of the scarcely believeable arduous journeys of Scott's and Shackleton's expeditions, they are also the birthplace of Antarctic science. These simple wooden dwellings, however, represent something more. They are filled with an atmosphere which is overpowering at times.

Published: 2010 by

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By Ken Mantel

Inuit artefacts from the Canadian Arctic first came to Britain in 1738 when ivories collected in Hudson Strait were acquired by Hans Sloane and later gifted to the British Museum. 200 years later, modern Inuit carvings began to have an impact here when the art dealer Charles Gimpel staged an exhibition of Inuit Art in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

Tuvaq: Inuit Art and the Modern World tells how British interest in Inuit art has grown in the past fifty years. Encouraged by a handful of committed enthusiasts and aided by a Heritage Lottery Fund Collecting Cultures award, a major public collection has now been established at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge.

There is also a hardback version available at £39.95.

Published: 2010 by Sansom & Company

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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 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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