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The Terra Nova Expedition
Through the eyes of Herbert Ponting
A superb collection of silver gelatin photographs of the Antarctic by Herbert Ponting, taken on the Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-1913.
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Cinematographing in the ice pack.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Ponting using his cinematograph camera to record the Te...
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Furling sails of the 'Terra Nova' in the pack ice.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913).The Terra Nova expedition was supposed to be the high-water mark...
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The Dogs on Deck.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the expedition dogs on board the Terra Nova.'The Expedi...
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Frostbite.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913).The Terra Nova expedition was supposed to be the high-water mark...
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Lt. Evans washing his hands.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Lieut. Evans crouching down on his haunches washing his...
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Unloading the motor sledge that sank through the ice.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) taken on 8th January 1911, showing the first of the motor sledge...
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Whisky for the pony that had to swim ashore.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) taken on 8th February 1911, showing four members of the expediti...
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The 'Terra Nova' lying off the Barne Glacier.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the Terra Nova adjacent to The Barne Glacier in Antarct...
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Davis - ships carpenter - building Cape Evans hut.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the expedition's shipwright and carpenter Francis Davie...
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Simpson and the Magnetic hut.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing meteorologist George Simpson (1878-1965) outside the Ma...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
