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RAJALA,E.A.B.

The American on the Endurance: Ice, Seas, and Terra Firma, Adventures of William L. Bakewell

Published: Dukes Hall Publishing, 2004
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1916 has been considered one of the greatest survival stories of the 20th century. William Bakewell's travel experiences and skills brought him to the expedition and made him an indispensable crew member.

RALLING, Christopher

Shackleton: His Antarctic Writings.

Published BBC 1983.

RICHARDS, R,W.

The Ross Sea Shore Party.

On the other side of the Antarctic while Shackleton's dreams are being crushed in the ice the Ross Sea Shore party have an equal heroic tale to tell. Published by SPRI 1962. Good first editions fetch £40 -£50. Luckily, Bluntsham are straight in there with a facsimili edition for £14.95.

RIFFEN, Beau.

NIMROD; ERNEST SHACKLETON AND THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE 1907-09 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION

London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. This is a key book by a respected author from SPRI.
By all accounts this is the definitive version of the Nimrod expedition and explains why Shackleton turned back only 97 miles from the Pole.
(The picture is of the USA edition, with its different title).
also by Riffenburgh and Liz Cruwys .......

The Photographs of H.G. Ponting

All his travel pictures in one book. These are not your typical holiday snaps! Pub. by SPRI 1999

ROSOVE, Michael H.

Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers 1772-1922

From Cook's first experience of the Antarctic to Shackleton's 1922 expedition this is a list by list of explorers and their expeditions. Comprehensive in its content it is a worthwhile reference book. Published 2000 by Annaplois Navel Institute Press.

ROSS, Sir James Clark

A Voyage Of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions.

Published 1847 by John Murray in 1847, original editions fetch a very high price. Luckily, there is a reprint edition by David and Charles Reprints. Their edition does the book justice with its wonderful title pages and illustrations.
From the book blurb:
When Captain James Ross sailed from England in command of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in 1839, practically nothing was known of the great Antarctic continent. His famous expedition, under the joint auspices of the Admiralty and The Royal Society, spent four years in the Southern regions, visiting Tasmania twice, calling at the Falklands, and coming within two or three hundred miles of the South Magnetic Pole. The main object was the observation of the earth's magnetic field, but there was a rich incidental yeilds of cartographic, climatic and biological information. The voyage was far from uneventful, and Ross captures much of the excitement of those hard pioneering days in his narrative, which is illustrated by a series of superb plates and woodcuts.