Dr David M. Wilson, his great nephew, and David B. Elder, a local Cheltenham librarian, have collaborated to produce the first biography of Edward Wilson for many years. It is richly illustrated with photographs and paintings, many of which are being made available to the public for the first time. The book traces the Cheltenham roots of Edward Wilson's extraordinary life, identifies many of the local sights associated with him, and follows him through to his death with Captain Scott on the return from the South Pole in 1912. View More...
Dr David M. Wilson, his great nephew, and David B. Elder, a local Cheltenham librarian, have collaborated to produce the first biography of Edward Wilson for many years. It is richly illustrated with photographs and paintings, many of which are being made available to the public for the first time. The book traces the Cheltenham roots of Edward Wilson's extraordinary life, identifies many of the local sights associated with him, and follows him through to his death with Captain Scott on the return from the South Pole in 1912. View More...
Dr David M. Wilson, his great nephew, and David B. Elder, a local Cheltenham librarian, have collaborated to produce the first biography of Edward Wilson for many years. It is richly illustrated with photographs and paintings, many of which are being made available to the public for the first time. The book traces the Cheltenham roots of Edward Wilson's extraordinary life, identifies many of the local sights associated with him, and follows him through to his death with Captain Scott on the return from the South Pole in 1912. View More...
A fascinating personal account of Scott's last expedition by Wilson, the Chief Scientific Officer, edited from the original mss. in the Scott Polar Research Institute and the British Museum by H. G. R. King. View More...
Published to celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic. 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 Anta... View More...
Published to celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic. 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 Anta... View More...
Published to celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic. 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 Anta... View More...
Published to celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic. 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 Anta... View More...
In 1868 American explorer Charles Francis Hall interviewed several Inuit hunters who spoke of strangers travelling through their land. Hall immediately jumped to the conclusion that the hunters were talking about survivors of the Franklin expedition and set off for the Melville Peninsula, the location of many of the sightings, to collect further stories and evidence to support his supposition. His theory, however, was roundly dismissed by historians of his day, who concluded that the Inuit had been referring to other white explorers, despite significant discrepancies between the Inuit evidence... View More...
The biography of Jane Griffith, Lady Franklin, wife of Sir John Franklin, drawn from the 200 journals and 2000 letters bequeathed to the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge. View More...
This is a Limited Edition Facsimile of the original scarce 1914 print. Includes extracts from Captain Scott's diary and his last message to the Nation. William Lionel Wyllie, often simply W. L. Wyllie, 1851-1931, was a prolific English painter of maritime themes in both oils and watercolours. Only 100 copies of the Limited Edition Facsimile were produced. View More...
This is a Limited Edition Facsimile of the original scarce 1914 print. Includes extracts from Captain Scott's diary and his last message to the Nation. William Lionel Wyllie, often simply W. L. Wyllie, 1851-1931, was a prolific English painter of maritime themes in both oils and watercolours. Only 100 copies of the Limited Edition Facsimile were produced. View More...
