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Imprint: Norfolk , Erskine Press, 2001 TEETH OF THE WIND In November 1997 two Belgian explorers crossed the Antarctic continent from the Wedell Sea to the Ross Sea on foot. . From Dronning Maud Land Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer travelled for 99 days until they reached the American base at McMurdo Sound, some 3920 kilometres away.They carried in the sledges all the supplies needed for the journey as well as scientific equipment necessary for taking ice-core samples from snows where no human had ever set foot. By using traction sails, specially designed for the expedition, they set many records, managing on some days to clock up distances of over 100 kilometres at amazing speeds. This full colour book contains over 90 pictures of their trip, many maps and drawings as well as technical details of the sails and their supplies, ...an extraordinary journey across this most inhospitable of continents...full of danger and excitement. The pictures illustrate the trials of the journey and the awesome beauty of... Antarctica. Stock number: ITTW. ISBN: 1852970669
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Imprint: NORFOLK, ERSKINE PRESS, 31.08.09 Once the pole had been ‘conquered’ by Amundsen and Scott the next great journey was the crossing of the Antarctic continent, first attempted by Filchner in 1912 and then by Shackleton in 1914. As part of the International Geographical Year the Trans-Antarctic Expedition was set up with Vivian Fuchs in charge. He would start from a base on the Weddell Sea and after reaching the Pole, continue to the Ross Sea using supply depots laid by a New Zealand team working from McMurdo and led by the conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. In January 1956 an advance party of eight men was left at Shackleton base to build accommodation, explore and lay depots to ease the passage of Fuchs’s team the following year. This account, based on the diary of the young medical officer, shows how close to disaster they came and how lucky they were to survive. Fuchs later admitted that apart from Scott’s marooned Northern Party theirs was the most severe ordeal in the history of Antarctic exploration. ...apart from Scott's marooned Northern Party theirs was the most severe ordeal in the history of Antarctic exploration Stock number: emic. ISBN: 9781852970956
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Imprint: Norfolk, ERSKINE PRESS, 1998 When Frank Debenham returned from the Antarctic in 1913 he resolved not to publish any reminiscences, but at the urging of many friends he published, in 1952, IN THE ANTARCTIC which deals chiefly with the lighter side of the three years he spent in the Antarctice. Written in his retirement, these delightful tales were Debenham's way of remembering some of the people - explorers, staff, research students - who passed through his tenure as Director of the Scott Polar Institute. The stories are a mixture of fact and fantasy, some are poignant, some are amusing, but all are delightful. The books are bound in slate-blue Irish linen buckram and blocked in gold on Stock number: ITAA. ISBN: 1852970553
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Imprint: Norfolk, ERSKINE PRESS, 31.08.09 Ernest Shackleton was obsessed by the Antarctic. He had written to his sister saying ‘You can’t think what it is like to walk over places where no man has walked before.’ He was disappointed at his showing during Scott’s Discovery Expedition—he had collapsed and Scott sent him back on the relief ship in 1903, because of his ‘ill health’ He wanted to be first to the South Pole, partly for the glory, partly for the fortune he expected to enjoy as a result of his explorations, but also because he felt he had to redeem himself. Raising the money for the expedition was fraught with difficulties but in 1907 he finally set sail, aboard the Nimrod . Here, gathered together for the first time, are 165 letters and telegrams exploring the inner workings of an heroic man with far-reaching dreams. His emotions are revealed through personal correspondence with Scott, Dr. Edward Wilson, Sir Clements Markham and others. Many of the letters were written to him or about him and they show how the people in his world responded to him and to each other. The last section of the book reproduces Shackleton’s intimate letters to his wife, Emily, and to Elspeth Beardmore, for whom he had a deep affection. To understand the mind of a man, read his letters... Stock number: tsl. ISBN: 9781852971014
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Imprint: NORFOLK , ERSKINE PRESS, 1999 In 1897 Roald Amundsen, the future conqueror of the South Pole, set sail as second officer on board the Belgica, as part of a multi-national crew. This was the first Antarctic expedition of a purely scientific nature and it was this expedition that fired him with his ambition to explore the Polar Regions. The explorers did not reach the pole but they were the first people to spend a winter in the Antarctic pack ice. This is the first publication of Amundsen's diary. The original manuscript, in the University of Oslo, has only been consulted by historians and biographers on a few occasions. As primarily a personal diary, it provides fascinating insights into the struggle for survival on the ice during the Antarctic winter and into the pressures in being part of a multi-national crew. ...revealing and grimly compelling. Sara Wheeler The Daily Telegraph Stock number: RABD. ISBN: 1852970588
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