Antarctic & Sub-Antarctic

"Farthest North" being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen month's sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram. About 120 full page and numerous text illustrations, sixteen coloured plates in facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches, etched portait photogravures and maps. TWO VOLUMES.Dark green cloth bindings with slight shelf wear, gilt titles and images to fronts. Bindings tight, complete, all maps and plates present. A very good pair.

Constable & Co., London, FIRST EDITION 1897. 510 & 670 pages with maps & plates. SECONDHAND.

A landscape format book containing the outstanding photographs that are the result of the artist's 2003 and 2006 visits to the Antarctic.

Hardback. 168 pages. NEW. 

Behind the scenes of the Nimrod Expedition. Here are 165 letters and telegrams exploring the inner workings of an heroic man with far reaching dreams. Includes intimate letters to his wife, Emily.

Erskine Press, Norwich, UK, 2009. Softback. 360 pages. NEW

This book tells the breathtaking story of Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions, in which he more than once narrowly escaped with his life. In 1911 his Australian Antarctic Expedition set off for the great white south, pitching camp on the slopes of the Beardmore glacier. When both members of his pary died, however, he was left to struggle the hundreds of miles back to base, only to find that the rescue ship had sailed away.

Softback. 296 pages. NEW. 

The ordeal of the advance party of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1957. Apart from Scott's marooned Northern Party theirs was the most severe ordeal in the history of Antarctic exploration. Based on the dairy of Rainer Goldsmith.

Erskine Press, Norwich, UK, 2007. Softback with dust jacket. 133 pages. NEW

Edmund Hillary and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958. Examines, for the first time, the controversy surrounding Hillary's race to the pole that threw Fuchs' expedition into confusion. 

Erskine Press, Norwich, UK, 2010. Softback. 144 pages. NEW

A beautiful book that tells the story of the heroic age of antarctic exploration through the photographs of Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley. The images are all in the Royal collection. There is also a history of antarctic photography and a selection of pictures of other items such as the union flag taken by Scott to the pole. The book is an excellent and beautifully produced addition to those already published on antarctic photography.  

Hardback. 256pp. NEW.

An impressive, comprehensive and finely written biography of the antarctic photographer. It details his experiences with Shakleton and Mawson as well as his later career as a cinematographer and a photographer, especially in New Guinea. The book is illustrated with his photographs.

Softback. 460 pages. NEW.

Rhys Richards has published widely on sealing and whaling and his latest book brings together a collection of 12 articles of his on sealing in the Sub Antarctic Islands between 1788 and 1833.  

Parameta Press. Softcovers. Illustrated. 278 Pages. NEW.

This book tells the full story of the voyage, the shipwreck, the plight of the castaways and the susequent searches for the gold thought to have been aboard. A tale of heroes, heroines and cads, heartbreak and loss, hope and dispair, hunger and greed.

Softback. 192 pages. NEW. 

Heard Island, in the Sub-Antarctic, has been inhabited for only a few years between December 1947 and March 1955 when it hosted an Australian base. This book is based on the journals of John Bechervaise during his thirteen months in charge. A remarkable picture of a bleak yet beautiful island.

National Library of Australia. Softback. 211 pages. NEW.

Shipwrecked on the Auckland Islands in the sub antarctic southern ocean, a great-granddaughter's pilgrimage. This is the reprint of 2005.

Exisle Publishing, Auckland, 1997. Hardback with dust jacket. 256 pages, illustrations. SECONDHAND.

Musuen curator David Harrowfield decribes the work undertaken annually to restore the aged huts of the original Antarctic explorers. These huts dot the coastline of the Ross Dependency.

Macmillan. Hardback with dustjacket. Illustrated. 119 Pages. SECONDHAND 

This is the only first-hand account of the voyage of discovery of the South Shetland group and of the first sighting of the Antarctic mainland. Poynter's journal recently came to light in New Zealand and is here published for the first time.

Hakluyt Society, London, 2000. Hardback with dust jacket. 232 pages. SECONDHAND