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  • A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects

    From Cook's Circumnavigations to the Aviation Age

    de Anne Strathie ...
    The objects in this book relate to a key period in polar exploration history, from the 1770s to the early 1930s. Today they are located worldwide, whether in polar regions, public spaces, museums and other repositories, or in private collections.Some objects were used by famous explorers, but more testify to important work by mariners, scientists, artists, photographers and filmmakers, or ... Leer más

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  • Herbert Ponting

    Scott's Antarctic Photographer and Pioneer Filmmaker

    de Anne Strathie ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Birdie Bowers

    Captain Scott's Marvel

    de Anne Strathie ...
    Henry 'Birdie' Bowers realised his life's ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring father and adventurous mother on the Firth of Clyde, Bowers' boyhood obsession with travel and adventure took him round the world several times and his life appears, with hindsight, to have been a ... Leer más

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  • From Ice Floes to Battlefields

    Scott's 'Antarctics' in the First World War

    de Anne Strathie ...
    February 1912: Harry Pennell and his Terra Nova shipmates brave storms and ice to bring supplies to Antarctica. They hope to celebrate Captain Scott's conquest of the South Pole, but are forced by ice to return north before Scott's party returns. In New Zealand a reporter tells them that Roald Amundsen reached the Pole first. Returning to Antarctica in early 1913, they learn that Scott's party ... Leer más

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  • Sails, Skippers and Sextants

    A History of Sailing in 50 Inventors and Innovations

    de George Drower ...
    'The inventions, the innovations, the stories, the surprises. A combination of history, reference and entertainment – something for every seafarer and many others too.' - Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.People have been sailing for thousands of years, but we've come some distance from longboats and clippers. How did we arrive here?In fifty tales of inventors and innovations, Sails, Skippers and ... Leer más

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  • Titanic Captain

    The Life of Edward John Smith

    de G. J. Cooper ...
    Commander Edward John Smith's career had been a remarkable example of how a man from a humble background could get far in the world. Born to a working-class family in the landlocked Staffordshire Potteries, he went to sea at the age of 17 and rose rapidly through the ranks of the merchant navy, serving first in sailing vessels and later in the new steamships of the White Star Line. By 1912, he as ... Leer más

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  • The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott

    Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Titanic

    'Iceberg Ahead'

    Experience the Titanic disaster through eyewitness accounts from those who lived it in this unique and gripping history.To have sailed on 'the voyage of the century' aboard White Star Line's RMS Titanic—described at the time as 'a floating palace'—was like being one of the first passengers to fly on Concorde.On 10 April 1912, people from all walks of life began embarking on Titanic, then the ... Leer más

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  • Brunel's Three Ships

    Few men have rightly earned the title of genius, but one must surely be Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In his short lifetime he pioneered the railways, built bridges, tunnels and termini. He also built three ships - theGreat Western, Great Britain and Great Eastern. Each one contributed more to the development of maritime engineering than any other vessel built before or since. This book tells the story ... Leer más

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  • Endurance

    Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

    **The legendary and harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackelton’s 1914 shipwreck on Antarctic ice – and how his leadership rescued his crew“One of the greatest adventure stories of our time.” –New York Times Book Review**In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In ... Leer más

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  • Sir John Franklin: Expeditions to Destiny

    Expeditions to Destiny

    Series series Amazing Stories
    After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were never found, and the fate of Franklin’s expedition passed into legend as one of the North’s great and ... Leer más

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  • Titanic

    'Goodbye Miss Young. Good luck to you and don't forget to remember me to the folks back home.'Major Archibald Butt (1865-1912)The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912 is one of the most dramatic stories in maritime history. The largest passenger steamship in the world, fitted with more advanced safety features than any of her rivals, she was proclaimed to be virtually unsinkable ... Leer más

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