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The Antarctic Paintings of Edward Seago

The Antarctic Paintings of Edward Seago

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.

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

Price: 14.99  (VAT not chargeable)

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Antarctica A History in 100 Objects

Antarctica A History in 100 Objects

By Jean de Pomereu and Daniella McCahey

This stunning and powerfully relevant book tells the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects.
Sourced from polar institutions and collections around the world, the objects that tell the story of this remarkable continent range from the iconic to the exotic, from the refreshingly mundane to the indispensable:

- snow goggles adopted from Inuit technology by Amundsen
- the lifeboat used by Shackleton and his crew
- a bust of Lenin installed by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition
- the Polar Star aircraft used in the first trans-Antarctic flight
- a sealing club made from the penis bone of an elephant seal
- the frozen beard as a symbol of Antarctic heroism and masculinity
- ice cores containing up to 800,000 years of climate history

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Published: 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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The Continent of Antarctica

The Continent of Antarctica

By Julian Dowdeswell and M Hambrey

This book attempts to bring together our accumulated experience of the Antarctic continent, through what we hope is a combination of an accessible but informative text, supported by a series of photographs. The selection of photographs, which are mostly our own, was a particular pleasure, reminding us of the many remote and beautiful places we have seen as part of our scientific work.

Published: 2018 by Papadakis

Price: 35  (VAT not chargeable)

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Face to Face, Polar Portraits

Face to Face, Polar Portraits

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

Price: 10  (VAT not chargeable)

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Islands of the Arctic

Islands of the Arctic

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

Price: 32  (VAT not chargeable)

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Seago A Wider Canvas - The Life of Edward Seago with writings by his brother, John

Seago A Wider Canvas - The Life of Edward Seago with writings by his brother, John

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

Price: 14.95  (VAT not chargeable)

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Sidney Nolan: Antarctica

Sidney Nolan: Antarctica

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

Price: 10  (VAT not chargeable)

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