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Herbert Ponting

Scott's Antarctic Photographer and Pioneer Filmmaker

By: Anne Strathie

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Herbert Ponting

Scott's Antarctic Photographer and Pioneer Filmmaker

By: Anne Strathie

Herbert Ponting (1870-1935) was young bank clerk when he bought an early Kodak compact camera. By the early 1900s, he was living in California, working as a professional photographer, known for stereoview and enlarged images of America, Japan and the Russo-Japanese war. In 1909, back in Britain, Ponting was recruited by Captain Robert Scott as photographer and filmmaker for his second Antarctic expedition. In 1913, following the deaths of Scott and his South Pole party companions, Ponting's images of Antarctica were widely published, and he gave innovative 'cinema-lectures' on the expedition. When war broke out, Ponting's offers to serve as a photographer or correspondent were declined, but in 1918 he, Ernest Shackleton and other Antarctic veterans joined a government-backed Arctic expedition. During the economically depressed 1920s and 1930s, Ponting wrote his Antarctic memoir, re-worked his Antarctic films into silent and 'talkie' versions and worked on inventions. Like others, he struggled financially but was sustained by correspondence with photographic equipment magnate George Eastman, a late-life romance with singer Glae Carrodus and knowing that his images of Antarctica had secured his place in photographic and filmmaking history.

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The History Press

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0750997052

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From Ice Floes to Battlefields

Scott’s ‘Antarctics’ in the First World War

By: Anne Strathie

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From Ice Floes to Battlefields

Scott’s ‘Antarctics’ in the First World War

By: Anne Strathie

February 1912: Harry Pennell and his Terra Nova shipmates brave storms and ice to bring supplies to Antarctica. They hope to celebrate Captain Scott’s conquest of the South Pole, but are forced by ice to return north before Scott’s party returns. In New Zealand a reporter tells them that Roald Amundsen reached the Pole first. Returning to Antarctica in early 1913, they learn that Scott’s party reached the Pole but died on the ice shelf.Back in Britain memorial services, medal ceremonies, weddings and resumed careers are abruptly interrupted by the First World War. Fit and able men, Scott’s ‘Antarctics’ trade one adventure for another.By 1919 Scott’s ‘Antarctics’ have fought at Antwerp, the Western Front, Gallipoli, in the Channel, at Jutland and in Arctic Russia. They serve on horseback, in trenches, on battleships and hospital ships, in armoured cars and flimsy aircraft; their brothers-in-arms include a prime minister’s son and poet Rupert Brooke. As in Antarctica, life is challenging and dangerous. As on the ice, not all survive.

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The History Press

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0750965789

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9780750965781

Birdie Bowers

Captain Scott's Marvel

By: Anne Strathie

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Birdie Bowers

Captain Scott's Marvel

By: Anne Strathie

Henry 'Birdie' Bowers realised his life's ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring father and adventurous mother on the Firth of Clyde, Bowers' boyhood obsession with travel and adventure took him round the world several times and his life appears, with hindsight, to have been a ceaseless preparation for his ultimate, Antarctic challenge. Although just 5ft 4in, he was a bundle of energy; knowledgeable, indefatigable and the ultimate team player. In Scott's words, he was 'a marvel'. This new biography, drawing on Bowers' letters, journals and previously neglected material, sheds new light on Bowers and tells the full story of the hardy naval officer who could always lift his companions' spirits.

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0752478710

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Herbert Ponting

Scott's Antarctic Photographer and Pioneer Filmmaker

By: Anne Strathie

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Scott's Antarctic Photographer and Pioneer Filmmaker

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Unions and Globalization

Governments, Management, and the State at Work

By: Peter Fairbrother,John O'Brien,Anne Junor,Michael O'Donnell,Glynne Williams

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Unions and Globalization

Governments, Management, and the State at Work

By: Peter Fairbrother,John O'Brien,Anne Junor,Michael O'Donnell,Glynne Williams

Innovative and offering a sociological analysis of trade unionism in the globalized era, this book provides a robust and coherent comparative analysis of the debate surrounding trade unions and their renewal.

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Routledge

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1136708200

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From Ice Floes to Battlefields

Scott's 'Antarctics' in the First World War

By: Anne Strathie

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From Ice Floes to Battlefields

Scott's 'Antarctics' in the First World War

By: Anne Strathie

February 1912: Harry Pennell and his Terra Nova shipmates brave storms and ice to bring supplies to Antarctica. They hope to celebrate Captain Scott's conquest of the South Pole, but are forced by ice to return north before Scott's party returns. In New Zealand a reporter tells them that Roald Amundsen reached the Pole first. Returning to Antarctica in early 1913, they learn that Scott's party reached the Pole but died on the ice shelf. Back in Britain memorial services, medal ceremonies, weddings and resumed careers are abruptly interrupted by the First World War. Fit and able men, Scott's 'Antarctics' trade one adventure for another. By 1919 Scott's 'Antarctics' have fought at Antwerp, the Western Front, Gallipoli, in the Channel, at Jutland and in Arctic Russia. They serve on horseback, in trenches, on battleships and hospital ships, in armoured cars and flimsy aircraft; their brothers-in-arms include a prime minister's son and poet Rupert Brooke. As in Antarctica, life is challenging and dangerous. As on the ice, not all survive.

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The History Press

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0750965789

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9780750965781

Widows of the Ice

The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind

By: Anne Fletcher

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Widows of the Ice

The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind

By: Anne Fletcher

New paperback edition - A moving and original account of the effect of Scott's tragic expedition on the men's wives and families, who fame and history have overlooked.

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464

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445693771

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Birdie Bowers

Captain Scott's Marvel

By: Anne Strathie

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Captain Scott's Marvel

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0752478710

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A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects

From Cook's Circumnavigations to the Aviation Age

By: Anne Strathie

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A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects

From Cook's Circumnavigations to the Aviation Age

By: Anne Strathie

The objects in this book relate to a key period in polar exploration history, from the 1770s to the early 1930s. Today they are located worldwide, whether in polar regions, public spaces, museums and other repositories, or in private collections. Some objects were used by famous explorers, but more testify to important work by mariners, scientists, artists, photographers and filmmakers, or sometimes overlooked roles played by explorers' relatives, sponsors and other supporters. They include: • Mrs Elizabeth Cook's 'ditty box' • An innovative crow's nest • Francis Crozier's penguin specimen • An octant used in searches for John Franklin • A scientist's portable paintbox • An expedition prospectus • An Antarctic Baby biplane • HMS Erebus's long-lost bell Collectively, the objects evidence a continuum of polar endeavour which, notwithstanding national ambitions and personal rivalries, reflect levels of international collaboration to which we should aspire when exploring or attempting to safeguard the increasingly fragile polar regions.

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436

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The History Press

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1803996080

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9781803996080

Dear Anne and Nan

By: Anne B. Adams,Nancy Nash-Cummings

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Dear Anne and Nan

By: Anne B. Adams,Nancy Nash-Cummings

Two Vermont columnists share their unusual money-saving advice for hundreds of day-to-day problems, from kitchen and bath cleaning to gardening and home repair

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273

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Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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0553351621

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9780553351620

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Unions and Globalization

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A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects

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