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5%OFFM. David Wilson - Nimrod Illustrated - 9781873877906 - V9781873877906
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Nimrod Illustrated

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Description for Nimrod Illustrated Hardcover. .
To celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration comes "Nimrod Illustrated". The book is a remarkable collage of expedition photographs, paintings and ephemera in a deliberate reminiscence of the expedition scrapbooks kept by so many of the expedition participants at the time. Many of the images are rarely seen, if ever before published, whilst others are better known.Together with quotations from the diaries of expedition participants, they tell the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 which saw the first use of ponies and motor cars in the Antarctic; achieved ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Reardon Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Antarctic
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Cheltenham, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781873877906
SKU
V9781873877906
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About M. David Wilson
Dr. David M. Wilson, PhD. (Essex), FZS, was born in 1963. Having an early career in the theatre, he moved on to study at the United World College of the Pacific and the Universities of York and Essex, where he trained as a philosopher. He is also a trained Counsellor. With a strong interest in Aboriginal cultures, he also has ... Read more

Reviews for Nimrod Illustrated
Nimrod Illustrated will never be bettered. A magnificent work of gathering and arrangement, devotedly and thoroughly researched, it reproduces and explains a great number of original images, many of them hard to find, of Shackleton's less familiar but quite extraordinary expedition. This lively, well designed and produced volume should surely be in the private libraries of all discriminating Heroic Age ... Read more

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