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THE ANTARCTIC COLLECTION
The Exploration of the Sixth Continent
The Antarctic wastes have long held a fascination for man. This sixth continent was the last to be explored and its exploration and demystification formed the stuff of legend. The tragic story of Robert Falcon Scott and the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 is known throughout the world. The Erskine Press has published a series of books dealing with the
HEROIC AGE OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. Some of these books are now out of print but the following are still available and fall into three main categories -
Diaries, Facsimiles and Translations.
All the books are copiously illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps. They are all hardback and cloth bound. The Diaries have pictorial jackets in two colours and are blocked in gold on the spines. The Translations and Facsimiles are cased in accurate reproductions of the originals and blocked in gold, silver or white on front and spine accordingly.
Click on the titles for further details.
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THE DIARIES AND LETTERS
THE
QUIET LAND
Frank Debenham
We first published this book over 30 years ago, but as a
result of quite a few requests we have reprinted it in a
small edition of 125 copies. Each copy has a book
plate with the copy number on it.
Hardback, jacketed, blocked on spine. 208pp + 16pp
plates, hardback, jacketed, blocked on spine. .Over 60
photographs and illustrations, many of which are by
Edward Wilson. Price £42.50
WITH SHACKLETON and MAWSON. The Antarctic Diaries of
Frank Wild
Beau Riffenburg & Angie Butler
Hardback, jacketed, 276pp, over 100 photographs and
illustrations, 2 fold-out maps. £35.00
THE
ANTARCTIC DIARY OF ARCHIBALD LANG MCLEAN
Edited
and with an introduction by Beau Riffenburgh
Hardback, jacketed,
404pp, 100 photographs and illustrations and one foldout
colour map. £32.50
LOST… THE
ANTARCTIC DIARY OF THOMAS ORDE LEES
John Thomson
500+, pages, hardback, jacketed, 50 photographs
250
COPIES ONLY £45.00
The Antarctic Diaries of Andrew Watson and Alexander
Kennedy together with the paintings of Charles Turnbull
Harrisson
A stunning limited edition package which includes:
THE ANTARCTIC DIARY OFANDREW DOUGALD WATSON -
Hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cover and spine,
260pp, 70 pictures
THE ANTARCTIC DIARY OF ALEXANDER LORIMER KENNEDY -
Hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cover and spine; 192pp
60 pictures
THE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS OF CHARLES TURNBULL HARRISSON
- 36pp + cover, soft back on art paper, 55 pictures
CHARLES TURNBULL HARRISSON - A LIFE - 16pp + cover,
booklet, 15 pictures
FULL COLOUR MAP OF QUEEN MARY LAND - removable.
This is a limited numbered edition of 300 copies. The
books will not be available separately. £77.50.
Mertz & I …
The Antarctic Diary of Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis
Edited by Allan Mornement & Beau Riffenburgh
Hardback, jacketed, 456pp +8pp colour & 16pp b&w plates. Over 110 drawings, illustrations and maps. £35.00 REDUCED
TO £25.00
8 men in a
crate
- The Ordeal of the Advance Party of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955–1957
Anthea Arnold, Based on the diaries of Rainer Goldsmith
144pp 16pp colour pictures, 50 photographs, paperback £12.75 REDUCED
TO £10.00
In the
Arctic - Tales Told at Tea Time
Frank Debenham
Edited by Barbara Debenham
144pp, hardback, blocked on front and spine; over 30 photographs and illustrations £15.00 REDUCED
TO £10.00
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THE FACSIMILES
SOUTHWARD ON THE QUEST
The Scala Cinema Portfolio
An unusual collection of Shackleton and Quest
‘ephemera’.
Limited to 275 copies. Price £50.00
IN THE LAND OF THE PENGUINS
An account of the Voyage
of the Belgica – Georges Lecointe
The first English translation of Lecointe’s 1904 book of
the Belgica Expedition.
330pp, hardback. Jacketed. 90 photographs and
illustrations, five separate maps, 20pp brochure, five
postcards of the expedition. Price: £42.50
The
South Polar Trail
The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Ernest Mills Joyce. With an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill
and a new introduction by Beau Riffenburgh
This is a limited edition facsimile of 300 individually numbered copies of the 1929 original, including the jacket.
Hardback, jacketed, 220pp + 32 plates.60 illustrations. Price £30.00
Facsimile cover of the South Polar Trail.
Price £4.50
Antarctica
Leaves from a diary kept on board an exploring vessel.
C. Reginald Ford Presented in a black gift box it also contains a facsimile of a 4pp 1905 brochure (295 x 210mm) detailing the author’s lectures in Australia and a 12pp pamphlet of biographical details, newspaper articles and pictures. Two Antarctic postcards are also included. The print run is limited to 400
copies. This is a very unusual piece of Antarctic history. £35.00 REDUCED
TO £25.00
Antarctic
days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton’s men. Illustrated by the authors, James Murray and George
Marston, and introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton.
304pp, 4 colour plates, 30 photographic illustrations
and 24 further illustrations. Hardback and jacketed.
Price: £75.00 plus post. REDUCED
TO £60.00
With the Aurora in the Antarctic 1911–1914
- John K Davis. With a new introduction by Beau Riffenburgh
312pp + 1 fold-out map (includes 83 illustrations) hardback, blocked in gold on front and spine. £37.50 REDUCED
TO £22.50
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THE TRANSLATIONS
Towards the South
Pole aboard the Français
The First French Expedition to the Antarctic, 1903-1905
J-B. Charcot
304pp, 253 x 174mm, hardback, cloth bound and blocked in two colours overall. Over 200 halftones, maps and drawings.
£45.00 REDUCED
TO £30.00
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MISCELLANEA
Antarctic Calendar 2024
AURORA
Douglas Mawson and the Australasian Antarctic
Expedition 1911-14
Beau Riffenburgh
536pp, hardback, jacketed, over 70 photographs, 11 maps and drawings, 1 pull out-map: £37.50 REDUCED
TO £27.50
TWO YEARS BELOW THE HORN
A Personal Memoir of Operation Tabarin
Andrew Taylor.
Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Haddelsey.
Price £22.00 THE CREVASSE
A Critical response to FLAWS IN THE ICE
Karyn Maguire Bradford
96pp, softback, illustrated; £14.00
REDUCED
TO £10.00
The Nimrod Murders
Simon Beaufort
376pp Hardback, jacketed.
Softback
£9.95 REDUCED
TO £6.00, Hardback £16.95 REDUCED
TO £10.00
Ice Tracks
– Today’s Heroic Age of Polar
Adventure
Angie Butler
REDUCED
TO £7.50
Climbing
the Pole -
Edmund Hillary and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition
1955-57
John Thomson
168pp, softback, over 35 photographs and maps.
£15.00 REDUCED
TO £10.00
HUSKIES OF THE HEROIC ERA OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION
A short history of Huskies during the heroic age of
Antarctic Exploration
written by David Jensen, chairman of the Mawson’s
Huts Foundation, the not for profit charity he founded
in 1997 to conserve the historic huts at Cape Denison,
East Antarctica.
76 pp, softback, approx. 30 pictures. All royalties from
the sale of this book go to the Mawsons Huts Foundation. Price: £12.00 REDUCED
TO £10.00 |
