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Polar Castaways – The Ross Sea Party – McElrea and Harrowfield – First Edition 2004

Published by Canterbury University Press, a quality production, first edition 2004. Octavo, 315 pages, well illustrated and in very good if not fine condition.

A through account of the Shackleton 1914 expedition Ross Sea Party.

The Aurora escaped its winter moorings and left the men stranded yet they still went about their task laying depot’s for Shackleton’s attempt at the first right across. Three of the ten men died and it took perennial Captain J.K. Davis to rescue them

First time Ross Sea Party fully explained

$35.00

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Scott of the Antarctic – The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott’s Last Polar Expedition.

The Last Journals of Scott, the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, here published by Konecky.

Large octavo, 521 pages, endpaper maps. Very good condition in a complete and clean dust jacket. A very solid respectable book.

Nicely illustrated and an economic alternative to the valuable original edition.

Scott’s Last it’s all here …

$25.00

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Icebound in Antarctica – David Lewis and Mimi George

Published by Heinemann in Australia a first edition 1987. Octavo, 242 pages with many great colour photographs by Mimi George. Very good like new condition.

In 1982 David Lewis and his partner Mimi George and four others sailed to the Antarctic in the “Dick Smith Explorer” … it got tricky and they got well and truly stuck

Ice everywhere

$30.00

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Beyond Cape Horn – Charles Neider

Published by Sierra, San Francisco in 1980. First edition, octavo, 387 pages with enpaper maps and nice illustrations, mainly coloured photographic images. A little ageing to the dust jacket, overall very clean inside.

In the summer of 1977 Charles Neider made his third trip south of Cape Horn to the Antarctic visiting Ross Island, McMudo sound, Wright and Victoria valleys etc. Also the author intermingles Magellan and Drake and their passages around the Horn and Cook and others who sailed so close and Scoot and Amundsen and the tragedy and success.

Well beyond Cape Horn

$30.00

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Polar Item – Scott Centenary (1912 – 2012) – Christie’s Sale

One of the collectable Christies/ Bonham Polar Sale Catalogues.

Christies Travel, Science and Natural History Catalogue with a special emphasis on the Antarctic and the Scott Expeditions. Quarto, 60 pages illustrated to the expected impeccable standard.

Some exceptional travel items catalogued with a good Australian and Pacific content. Includes forty pages of unique Antarctic items that will make any enthusiast salivate.

Our favourites … Mawson’s specimen boxes, Shackleton’s sledge harness, letters from Apsley Cherry-Garrard to his mother (“I sleep under Bowers. It is going to be a very warm hut and we live very well here”), Ponting’s best photographs and Scott’s marching compass. Well we like it all really. We all missed the boat on this one!

Unique Polar items and other travel delicacies

$60.00

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Sinfonia Antartica – Vaughan Williams – London Philharmonic- 1970 Recording

In 1947 Vaughan William’s was invited to compose music for the Ealing Studios film “Scott of the Antarctic”. He was gripped by the subject and by 1949 was reshaping the themes into a Symphony.

It was first performed in Manchester in 1953. This superb vinyl recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult in 1970.

Each movement has a literary superscription. In some early recordings these were read out (once by Geilgud) although it is clear that Vaughan Williams intended them to be read silently by the listener, especially as he instructed that the third movement should flow continuously into the fourth for dramatic effect.

The words to the Epilogue come from Scott’s Last Journal … “I do not regret this journey; we took risks, we knew we took them, things have come out against us, therefore we have no cause for complaint”

Antartica is a deliberate spelling.

Vaughan Williams provides … a gigantic reflection on man’s isolation and ultimate vulnerability within the extreme untamed wilderness.

$40.00

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