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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).

POMPEY returned to his home in the Antarctic in August after an absence of one-and-a-half years. He was one of about twelve thousand Gentoo penguins which lived on three islands, North Island, Middle Island and South Island. This book is a simple account of Pompey's life during the following nine months. He goes swimming among the ice-foes; he fishes for shrimps; he escapes from his arch-enemy, the Leopard Seal; and he meets the charming Jenny who becomes his wife. Together they make a nest and rear two fine, fluffy chicks. It is an accurate description of the life of a Gentoo penguin, made interesting by Mr. Bagshawe's wide knowledge of penguin habits and the conditions in which they live. Before the time comes for the baby penguins to swim away from home, Pompey and Jenny and many of their neighbours have become intimate friends. ]oan Kiddell-Monroe's pictures are accurate and quite outstanding. They help to make a really exceptional book.

Following Edward Wilson into the Unknown, Dr Edward WilsonEnglish Polar Explorer, Ornithologist, Physician and artist died in Antarctica in 1912. The discovery of a bird painting by Edward Wilson, who diedwith Scott on their return from the South Pole, hit the headlines in 2017. Thebird was a dead treecreeper, an insignificant inhabitant of European woodland.Why was it there? This author had carried a treecreeper photo in his wallet forseven years after emigrating to NewZealand in 1960, to remind him of home. Thecoincidence led to a search of Wilson'sportfolio, producing 150 paired images; many were weird - grooves on a bird'stoenails? Dingle beach, Ireland;same time of day, same tide level, directly into a red sun? Coincidences in their characters came next: both learned artfrom their parents, at university they looked and dressed like twins, graduatedwith first class honours in Natural History, won prizes in diving, taughtSunday schools, and worked with teamsinvestigating grousedeclines in Scotland. Following in Wilson's footsteps leads to a newappreciation of the necessity to understand things; to find reasons for beauty,music, art, and poetry; philosophy, religion, and the occult. Can we solve theproblem of finding any acceptable future for humanity?John Flux the author of this book was born 1934 in Maymyo,Burma; moved to Channel Islands, UK, 1939 -1940; Scotland 1940-1960. At school(Mackie Academy, Stonehaven) no biology wastaught, but in the final year 2 hours every Friday was spent on Hamlet. After aBSc and PhD at Aberdeenuniversity, John joined Ecology Division DSIR in 1960 to study hares at night.To occupy the day, a starling study began in 1970. Apart from papers on these,as an old-style naturalist he has published on trout, grouse, swallows,thrushes, blackbirds, wallabies, butterflies, cats, pigeons, possums,rats; fleas, ticks, and seed burrscarried; leaf shapes and colour,tree-trunk diameter, by-the-wind sailors, bird-nest/plant mutualism,dandelions, lichens, wool-carder bees, harriers on road-kill, colour-blindness,moth evolution, bird spacing, and "Biogeographic theory and the number andhabitat of moas". Deluxe Edition

Cherry Kearton's 1920's study of Penguins has been reproducedhere along with over 90 photographs, under a new title of 'Penguin Family Life'as he shows the anthropomorphic behaviour of both the penguins and othercreatures sharing a piece of rock no more than 4 miles square, during the breedingseason no less than 5 million birds strive to raise families, and Cherry bringsthis event to life with his own very special narrative that helps make you feelpart of a penguin family from building a family home to saying goodbye to yourchildren as they leave to make their own way in the world.

With over 86photos, 7 maps along with adverts and cartoons of the day, Scott'slast message along with tributes by Scott in his own hand, this book has beencreated from articles published in 1913 showing Scott's last expedition on the TerraNova in 5 linking segments, which was before the famous two volume Scott's LastExpedition was published in November 1913.Many of theon the ice photos in this book are reproduced as they appeared in the magazinesas cyanotypes (deep blue tinted/monochromatic printing) which was a process inlate 19th century and early 20th century magazineprinting.

The 'Winter Journey' of 1911 is at one level merely a fascinating lost chapter in the history of Antarctic science, but it turns out to be a key that unlocks the real meaning of one of the most mythologized and misunderstood episodes in British history, Robert Falcon Scott's alleged "race to the Pole". It's also one of the greatest survival epics of all time.In the Antarctic Winter of 1911, while waiting for Scott's main expedition to begin, three extraordinary men decided to amuse themselves with a side-expedition. They set out into the perpetual winter dark hauling two wooden sleds with a combined weight of over 700 lb. The point was to test a s new twist on Darwin's theory of natural selection by collecting and studying the incubating eggs of the Emperor penguin. It would only take a week, they thought. But everything went wrong, and only one of them would live to tell the story.Rife with captivating details of survival in an icy wilderness, and illustrated with dozens of photographs from the actual journey, this re-imagining of the famous 1910-1913 expedition, told in Cherry's voice, is an unforgettable tale of courage, camaraderie, and science at the extremes.

Most people imagine the cold is the hardest part of livingat the South Pole. It is not. The cold is predictable. It is the silence thatcatches you off guard.For nearly three years, Dale Herschlag lived at the SouthPole, becoming one of fewer than 120 people in history to complete back-to-backwinter seasons in total darkness.U.S. Air Force meteorologist trained to forecast the world'smost violent weather, he arrived prepared for the cold. What he was notprepared for was the psychological weight that emerges when the horizondisappears, and the stillness refuses to let you look away.In South of Silence, Herschlag takes readers beyond the industrialgrit of McMurdo Station and into the heart of the most isolated environment onEarth-the South Pole.From the extremes of the 300 Club-a midwinter test of exposureand endurance-to the unseen toll of prolonged isolation, this memoir exploreswhat happens when survival becomes routine and reflection becomes unavoidable. Itis a story of endurance, identity, and the quiet ways extreme environments reveal who we are whenthere is nowhere left to hide.At the South Pole, the sun disappears for months at a time,and there is no horizon to follow. For nearly three years, Dale Herschlag livedand worked there, including two consecutive Antarctic winters when darkness wascomplete and inescapable.As a U.S. Air Force meteorologist, Herschlag was trained toanalyze extreme weather and make decisions under pressure. The cold wasfamiliar. The isolation was not.At the Pole, the data eventually repeats, and the workshifts from interpretation to resilience. Life there demanded a different kind ofendurance, shaped by repetition and confinement.South of Silence is a memoir about what prolonged isolationdoes to the mind, and what it takes to remain grounded when the external worldnarrows to almost nothing. It follows the slow internal shifts that emerge whensilence stops fading into the background and begins to press inward