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Published by Polarworld, 2007
ISBN 10: 0955525519ISBN 13: 9780955525513
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Polarworld, 2014
ISBN 10: 0955525586ISBN 13: 9780955525582
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Willis Limited and Polarworld, 1900
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Blue cloth covered boards with silver titles; jacket has light shelf wear; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; Illustrated endpapers and throughout; interior clean and unmarked; 118 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Published by The Scott Polar Research Institute with Polarworld, United Kingdom, Cambridge, 2008
ISBN 10: 0901021083ISBN 13: 9780901021083
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A lavish account of pioneering polar photography and modern portraiture, "Face to Face: Polar Portraits" brings together in a single volume both rare, unpublished treasures from the historic collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge, 'face to face' with cutting-edge modern imagery from expedition photographer Martin Hartley.This unique book by Huw Lewis-Jones 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 from 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 - that have been rediscovered during research for this book have never been before the public eye.Set within a 'gallery' of 100 double page-spreads are 50 of the world's finest historic polar portraits from the SPRI collection alternated with 50 modern-day images by Martin Hartley, who has captured men and women of many nations, exploring, working, and living in the Polar Regions today. Each gallery spread, dedicated to a single individual, gives a sense of the isolation and intense personal experience each 'face' has had in living or travelling through the polar wilderness, whether they be one of the world's greatest explorers, or a humble cook.In addition to this remarkable collection is a foreword written by Sir Ranulph Fiennes; a fascinating exploration into 'photography then' - the history of photography and its role in shaping our vision of the polar hero by historian and curator of art at SPRI, Dr Huw Lewis-Jones; a discussion between Dr Lewis-Jones and Martin Hartley about 'photography now', focusing on the essential role that photography plays in modern polar adventuring; and an afterword entitled 'The Boundaries of Light' by the best-selling author Hugh Brody.Does an explorer need to appear frostbitten and adventurous to be seen as heroic, and do we need faces like these to imagine their achievement?Sir John Franklin is the first. The sun is high. He adjusts his cocked hat, bound with black silk, and gathers up his telescope. He shifts uncomfortably in his chair, positioned on the deck of the stout ship Erebus, as she wallows at her moorings in the London docks. It is 1845. The photographer, Richard Beard, urges the explorer to stay still for just a moment longer. He removes the lens cap, he waits, another minute, and then swiftly slots it back in place. The first polar photographic portrait is secured.Other senior officers of the exploration ships Erebus and Terror had their photographs taken that day, optimistic and ever hopeful. They appear to us now as if frozen in time. So too they followed Sir John Franklin as he led them in search of a navigable northwest passage, into the maze of islands and straits which forms the Canadian Arctic.'Mr Beard, at Franklin's request, supplied the expedition with a complete photographic apparatus, which was safely stowed aboard the well-stocked ship alongside other technological marvels: portable barrel-organs, tinned meat and soups, scientific equipment, the twenty-horse-power engines loaned from the Greenwich railway, and a library of over twelve hundred volumes. The camera now formed part of the kit thought essential to travel to the limits of the known world. Weighed down with stores, yet buoyant with Victorian confidence, the expedition sailed from the Thames on 19 May. The ships were last seen in late July, making their way northward in Baffin Bay, before vanishing without a trace - Huw Lewis-Jones,from the essay 'Photography Then' in "Face to Face".This title is available in both hardback and soft-cover. It features placement: photography, exploration, travel. It contains 288 pages in full-colour, including images that have never before been published. The South Pole was an awful place to be on 18 January 1912. Captain Scott and his four companions - Wilson, Bowers, Oates, and Evans - had just found that the Norwegian explorer Amundsen had beaten them to the prize one month earlier. The photograph that the men took that day speaks volumes for their achievement, of course, but there could be no truer record of their total disappointment. The men look absolutely broken; a photograph on top of everything else seems like a punishment. They are utterly devastated. A life's ambition has been snatched from their grasp. Now 800 miles from their base, they dragged themselves northward into the mouth of a raging blizzard. Their photographs and letters home, recovered with their bodies some time later, tell the sad tale of their sacrifice - Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Polarworld
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Good Clean Condition Book.
Published by The Scott Polar Research Institute with Polarworld, Cambridge, 2008
ISBN 10: 0901021083ISBN 13: 9780901021083
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. this copy dated 2008,original card covers,illustrated,285 pages,fine.
Published by Polarworld, United Kingdom, Surrey, 2013
ISBN 10: 0955525535ISBN 13: 9780955525537
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sixty years after the first ascent of Mount Everest, this unique book of letters celebrates, in a very personal way, this most majestic of mountains. With exclusive access to the private archives of pioneering New Zealand climber George Lowe, this is a welcome tribute to an unsung hero. The conquest of Everest in the summer of 1953 was one of the twentieth-century's greatest triumphs of exploration. George Lowe's exploits on the mountain would become legendary. He was one of the lead climbers, forging the route up Everest's Lhotse Face without oxygen, and later cutting steps for his partners up the summit ridge. In this touching book, a trove of unpublished letters from the Lowe collection are brought together for the first time, to describe the day-by-day moments of this historic expedition as never before. In clear and elegant prose, this is a unique testimony of a superlative human achievement. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by The Scott Polar Research Institute with Polarworld, 2008
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Like new in shrink wrap.
Published by Polarworld, 2007
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom
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First Edition
Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.3 Language: English.
Published by Polarworld, Eccles, UK, 2012
ISBN 10: 0955525519ISBN 13: 9780955525513
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Wally Herbert (illustrator). First Edition. Wide Quarto, 10 x 12 in., pp. 128. Illustrated with color plates by Wally Herbert. Dark blue cloth boards with silver polar bear to cover and silver title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. One inch crease to front dustjacket flap. Watercolor, pencil and oil artwork by the master of painting polar scenes. This book presents a broad collection of Sir Wally's paintings, together with personal anecdotes of his experiences in the Polar World. Sir Walter William Herbert (1934 - 2007) was a British polar explorer, writer and artist. In 1969 he became the first man fully recognized for walking to the North Pole, on the 60th anniversary of Robert Peary's disputed expedition. With the help of fellow explorers, dogs, and air drops. Herbert chose to cross the frozen Arctic across its longest axis that crosses the North Pole, from Utqiagvik (Barrow) to Svalbard. In his 2007 obituary, The Telegraph called his expedition "a 15-month journey of 3,720 miles that has never been repeated. "He was described by Sir Ranulph Fiennes as "the greatest polar explorer of our time". During the course of his polar career, which spanned more than 50 years, he spent 15 years in the wilderness regions of the polar world. He travelled with dog teams and open boats well over 23,000 miles - more than half of that distance through unexplored areas. Among his several books, which he illustrated, were works dealing with polar exploration. He also had solo exhibitions of his drawings and paintings. In 2000 he was knighted for his polar achievements. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus.
Hardcover. pp. 271. 4to.Blue binding. Photography from the Arctic Greenland and Canada. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket shelfworn, rubbled, and lightly creased; very good+ in very good dustjacket.
Published by Willis Limited and Polarworld, USA, 1900
Seller: Artless Missals, DENVER, CO, U.S.A.
HARDCOVER. Condition: VG. 2014. Limited edition. Willis supported the Willis Resilience Expedition to the South Pole in 2013. "Convening some of the world's leading thinkers on climate change adaptation."This book explores "pioneering responses to the greatest and most pressing issue to face our planet. against the effects of climate change." Binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no markings found. Dust jacket bright and shiny with light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear.
Published by London Silverbear an Imprint of Polarworld 2013, 2013
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Book Signed
174 pp. 12 mo. Original grey cloth slipcase. Grey cloth boards and silver decoration on front and back. Silver lettering on spine. Colour illustrated endpapers. B&W photo frontispiece and B&W photos and illustrations throughout. Text block is clean and tight, and photos are bright. With an original unpublished black and white photo go George Lowe and a small clipping from the sleeping bag George used on the 1953 expedition. As new. An exceptional compilation of George Lowe's letters written to his sister while climbing Everest in 1953. Signed by Jan Morris, Huw Lewis-Jones and Peter Hillary on a special limitation page. The endpapers are unique to this edition. With an introduction by Lewis-Jones, a forward by Morris and afterword by Hillary. Limited to 60 copies of which this copy is out of series. A wonderful Everest item signed by Jan Morris the only living member of the expedition and Edmond Hillary's son Peter. This edition co-published by Aquila Books and Meridian Rare Books.