The Lost Photographs Of Captain Scott

Author : Dr. David M. Wilson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316193580

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The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott by Dr. David M. Wilson Pdf

The myth of Scott of the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, icon of fortitude and courage who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole on March 29th, 1912, is an enduring one, elevated, dismantled and restored during the turbulence of the succeeding century. Until now, the legend of the doomed Terra Nova expedition has been constructed out of Scott's own diaries and those of his companions, the sketches of 'Uncle Bill' Wilson and the celebrated photographs of Herbert Ponting. Yet for the final, fateful months of their journey, the systematic imaging of this extraordinary scientific endeavor was left to Scott himself, trained by Ponting. In the face of extreme climactic conditions and technical challenges at the dawn of photography, Scott achieved an iconic series of images; breathtaking polar panoramas, geographical and geological formations, and action photographs of the explorers and their animals, remarkable for their technical mastery as well as for their poignancy. Lost, fought over, neglected and finally resurrected, Scott's final photographs are here collected, accurately attributed and catalogued for the first time: a new dimension to the last great expedition of the Heroic Age and a humbling testament to the men whose graves still lie unmarked in the vastness of the Great Alone.

Author : David M. Wilson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0316178500

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The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott by David M. Wilson Pdf

The myth of Scott of the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, icon of fortitude and courage who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole on March 29th, 1912, is an enduring one, elevated, dismantled and restored during the turbulence of the succeeding century. Until now, the legend of the doomed Terra Nova expedition has been constructed out of Scott's own diaries and those of his companions, the sketches of 'Uncle Bill' Wilson and the celebrated photographs of Herbert Ponting. Yet for the final, fateful months of their journey, the systematic imaging of this extraordinary scientific endeavor was left to Scott himself, trained by Ponting. In the face of extreme climactic conditions and technical challenges at the dawn of photography, Scott achieved an iconic series of images; breathtaking polar panoramas, geographical and geological formations, and action photographs of the explorers and their animals, remarkable for their technical mastery as well as for their poignancy. Lost, fought over, neglected and finally resurrected, Scott's final photographs are here collected, accurately attributed and catalogued for the first time: a new dimension to the last great expedition of the Heroic Age and a humbling testament to the men whose graves still lie unmarked in the vastness of the Great Alone.

Author : David M. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0316193593

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The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott by David M. Wilson Pdf

A respected historian and relative of Dr. Edward Wilson, who died while returning from the South Pole in 1912 on the doomed Terra Nova expedition, catalogs the final photos of the journey taken by Captain Scott himself.

Author : Norbert Wu,Jim Mastro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Marine biology
ISBN : 9780520235045

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Under Antarctic Ice by Norbert Wu,Jim Mastro Pdf

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Author : Roald Amundsen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547671466

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The South Pole by Roald Amundsen Pdf

The South Pole is a book by Roald Amundsen and it represents an interesting first-hand account of the Norwegian expedition's successful attempt to reach the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen spends a great deal of time talking about logistics and placing of depots in preparation for his polar attempt all the way from the preparation leading up to the initial sea voyage, the voyage itself and then the establishing of a camp at the Antarctic. Although they were lucky with the weather, and Amundsen attributed the success of the expedition to "good luck", it is obvious that the Norwegian expedition was well prepared and ready for the troubles ahead; the equipment, the sledges with well-trained dogs, the supply depots with seal meat at regular intervals along the route, the sunglasses to avoid snow blindness; it was all thought of in advance.

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499586548

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Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Vintage Classic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0099561387

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The Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

Includes the British Antarctic track chart and Ponting's glass plate negatives of the photographs that he took while on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13 Captain Scott's gripping account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 tell of a journey that was meant to be a voyage of scientific discovery and a heroic exploration of the last unconquered wilderness. Scott's expedition, carried in the Terra Nova, pitted him and his team not only against the elements but also against the Norwegian explorer Amundsen. Ultimately, Scott was beaten by both. The journals are full of incident and drama, courage and endurance, hope and bitter disappointment. These journals were found, along with Scott's body, several months after his death and just 11 miles from base camp and safety.

Author : Anne Strathie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750997058

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Herbert Ponting by Anne Strathie Pdf

Herbert Ponting (1870-1935) was young bank clerk when he bought an early Kodak compact camera. By the early 1900s, he was living in California, working as a professional photographer, known for stereoview and enlarged images of America, Japan and the Russo-Japanese war. In 1909, back in Britain, Ponting was recruited by Captain Robert Scott as photographer and filmmaker for his second Antarctic expedition. In 1913, following the deaths of Scott and his South Pole party companions, Ponting's images of Antarctica were widely published, and he gave innovative 'cinema-lectures' on the expedition. When war broke out, Ponting's offers to serve as a photographer or correspondent were declined, but in 1918 he, Ernest Shackleton and other Antarctic veterans joined a government-backed Arctic expedition. During the economically depressed 1920s and 1930s, Ponting wrote his Antarctic memoir, re-worked his Antarctic films into silent and 'talkie' versions and worked on inventions. Like others, he struggled financially but was sustained by correspondence with photographic equipment magnate George Eastman, a late-life romance with singer Glae Carrodus and knowing that his images of Antarctica had secured his place in photographic and filmmaking history.

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1378649710

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The Voyage of the 'Discovery'; Volume 2 by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

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Author : David Grann
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385544580

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The White Darkness by David Grann Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and emerged as one of the greatest leaders in history. Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. He was related to one of Shackleton's men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modeled his military command on Shackleton's legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in the most brutal landscape in the world. In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion, and hidden crevasses. Yet when he returned home he felt compelled to go back. On November 13, 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone. David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today." Illustrated with more than fifty stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, The White Darkness is both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!

Author : KATHERINE. MACINNES
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008394695

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Snow Widows by KATHERINE. MACINNES Pdf

Author : Nigel Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1741967392

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Still Life by Nigel Watson Pdf

A photographic study of the Arctic huts that served as expediion bases for explorations led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Author : David Hempleman-Adams,Emma Stuart,Sophie Gordon
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1608190072

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The Heart of the Great Alone by David Hempleman-Adams,Emma Stuart,Sophie Gordon Pdf

A treasure trove of photographs—some never before reproduced in book form—from the two greatest Antarctic expeditions. Among the greatest achievements in the history of photography, those of the early polar explorers surely stand out, for the beauty of their images and the almost impossible conditions they encountered. And none of these are more remarkable than the photographs recorded by the official chroniclers of two epic Antarctic expeditions—that of Robert Falcon Scott, departed in 1910, which tragically resulted in his death; and, four years later, that of Ernest Shackleton, whose heroic sea journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia has become the stuff of legend. Their photographers—Herbert George Ponting and Frank Hurley—transported bulky cameras and glass plate negatives across the forbidding polar landscape to record some of the earliest images of this dramatic environment. That the photographs survived to be presented on their return to King George V is miraculous, and they have remained ever since in the Royal Collection. The Heart of the Great Alone reproduces the best of these marvelous images, some of which have never appeared in book form before—ships encased in ice floes, ice cliffs and ravines, campsites and dog sleds, and the incomparable beauty of Antarctic flora and fauna. Together they form an invaluable record of an environment that global warming has forever changed. With a superb narrative drawing on Ponting's and Hurley's writings and other unique archival material from the Royal Collection, and with extended captions for each image, this book is a unique addition to the literature of polar exploration.

Author : David M. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 090102127X

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Captain Scott's Photographs by David M. Wilson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : PSU:000066577409

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With Scott to the Pole by Anonim Pdf