Alan Donnithorne (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First U.S. Edition. 256pp.incl.index; HB red w/white; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ red w/white spine-b/w photocovers; slight rub. "A treasure trove of photographs - some never before reproduced in book form - from the two greatest Antarctic expetitions." b/w & color photos. isbn 9781608190072.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour, black & white and sepia-toned photgraphs. Colour maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 256 pages. Marries outstanding images from the Royal Collection with a narrative and commentary of polar exploration by Hempleman-Adams and Essays from Gordon & Stuart on history of Antarctic photography and of Scott's and Shackleton's expeditions. Includes an Appendix with thumbnail photographs of the entire collection of George V and another Appendix with brief biographies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. As photographed; 4vo; in completely as-new condition showing no signs of use; red cloth bds. w. gilt spine lettering; frontis. map + 256 with text and accompanying photographs in every page; privately owned; a beautifully produced and most evocative book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition red boards with silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Foreword: HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Introduction: David Hempleman-Adams; Appendix I: The 1913 Fine Art Society Catalogue: Photographic Pictures of Mr. Herbert G. Ponting; Appendix 2: Brief Biographies; Appendix 3: Major Expeditions of the 'Heroic Age' of Antarctic Exploration 1839-1922; Appendix 4: The King's Albums; Bibliography; Index and Acknowledgments. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, color photographs, maps, color map frontispiece, and color photographic front and rear endpapers. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. "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 more remarkable than the photographs recorded by the official chroniclers of two epic Antarctic expeditions - that of Robert Falcon Scott, beginning 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 - 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 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." - from the inner front jacket flap.

4°, paperback. 166 pp Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.