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HALL, Lincoln.
DOUGLAS MAWSON.The life of an Explorer. A Pictorial Biography
Profusely illustrated with more than 170 photographs in b/w.Many previously unpublished. Mawson achieved more- in terms of discovery -than Scott and Shackleton put together, mapping large tracts of the Antarctic. Pub: New Holland Sydney 2000.
HANSEEN, Helmer.
Voyages of a Modern Viking
Autobiography by member of Amundsen's expedition 1903-06 ( Northwest passage) and 1910-12 South Pole. Published Routledge?
HAYES, Gorden J.
The Conquest of the South Pole: Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931
A history of expeditions 1906-1931. Published 1932 Butterworths
HEACOX, Kim
A history of expeditions 1906-1931. Published 1932 Butterworths
Details all of Shackleton's expeditions. Very factual and unemotional photo-biography with excerpts from the crews diaries and letters. Some previously unpublished photographs. Published 1999 National Geographic.
HEADLAND, Rik & Robert, BB
Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events.
Details 2800 expeditions form 700BC to 1998. Published 1989 Cambridge UP.
HOFLEHNER, J &; K
FROZEN HISTORY; THE LEGACY OF SCOTT AND SHACKLETON
Photographs by Josef and Katharina Hoflehner, text by David L. Harrowfield.
A current photo collection of the buildings used by the heroic age explorers, expensive at £52, try http://www.frozenhistory.com. for further information. I am more than happy to recommend this book if it stops people going to the actual site but I suspect it will do the opposite. Pub: Wels, Austria: Joseph Hoflehner Photography, 2003
HONNEYWILL, Eleanor
The Challenge of Antarctica
Published 1969 by Methuen -a young person guide to Antarctic exploration. Updated version published by Nelson 1984.
HUNTFORD, Roland
The Amundsen Photographs
A book that covers Amundsen's expeditions to the North West passage, the South Pole and the Maud Expedition. There are fantastic photographs reproduced from Amundsen's long lost lantern slides. Like all of Huntfords first editions, as rare as hens teeth. Published Atlantic Press 1987.
Scott & Amundsen
This is a key book on the subject of Antarctic exploration. It is a controversial double biography of the first and second to the pole. This book has been described as the 'case against Scott' and it does not hold back on criticism of him. There is now evidence that Scott's failure was not just because of his personality but there were problems that existed that was out of his control. The unusual cold weather was just one issue. Huntford elevates Amundsen to his place amongst the greatest of explorers and finding in Scott 'a suitable hero for a nation in decline'. There is no still no doubt however, that this is a brilliantly researched book. Its strength lies in its detail and that alone makes it the standard text book on this subject.
The book was first published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1979 and a good condition copy would fetch £120. The USA edition issued by Putnam's is worth about $500. When issued in paperback it had a change of title - SCOTT & AMUNDSEN: A RACE TO THE POLE. (Pan Books 1983). Weinenfield reissued the book under its original title in 1993. Other publishers issued THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH (a third title change) from 1981 to 2000. This was a follow-up book to a successful television programme of the same name.
Shackleton
Well researched and comprehensive. This is a key book that captures the character of Shackleton - a man full of contradictions and vision, yet who had the qualities of leadership. A man who made things happen and a great hero. Hodder & Stoughton published in 1985. Numerous issues in paperback from 1985 onwards.
The Shackleton Voyages: A Pictorial Anthology of the Polar Explorer and Edwardian Hero.
A Large format book (weighs 4.5 lbs) which shows off Hurleys photographs to their best. Pub. 2002
HURLEY, Frank
Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of Voyagings Polar Seas. Adventures with Sir Douglas Mawson, Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Published 1925 by Putnam. Reissued as 'Shackleton's Argonaunts, A Saga of the Ice' Packs 'by Robertson in 1948. Reissued as 'Shackleton's Argonaunts. The Tale of Shackletons Voyage in 1915' published by McCraw Hill in 1979. The captain of Endurance relates his story of the Australian 1911-14 expedition and the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917.
HUSSEY, Leonard
South With Shackleton.
The author was meteorologist on Shackleton's expedition 1914-1916 and then on the 1921 expedition and witnessed the death of Shackleton. Published 1949 by Sampson Low.
HUXLEY, Elspeth
Scott Of The Antarctic
There is in this book the best by far, biography of Scott. The author (who has written numerous books) has made good use of access to Scott's diaries and letters. The facts quoted are essential to the study of the man and not inconsequential. It is what to leave out in a biography that makes it good and Huxley got it right. There is in the rear of this book, biographical notes on the key players in Scott's expedition. The book is worth having just for that alone- it is simply a superb thumbnail sketch. Published by Weinfield and Nicholas in 1977 and by Atheneum (USA) in 1978. Pan books issued a paperback in 1979.
