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This book lovingly reproduces the best of [Herbert George Ponting and Frank Hurley's] photographs (and prints some that have not previously been seen in book form), and brings the reader tantalizingly close to the heroes of these expeditions and the suffering and sorrow they endured. The text throughout is excellent; the authors describe Ponting's famous photograph of a ship seen through a sloping ice grotto as significant an image as Neil Armstrong standing on the moon for the first time. -- New York Times

This book lovingly reproduces the best of [Herbert George Ponting and Frank Hurley's] photographs (and prints some that have not previously been seen in book form), and brings the reader tantalizingly close to the heroes of these expeditions and the suffering and sorrow they endured. The text throughout is excellent; the authors describe Ponting’s famous photograph of a ship seen through a sloping ice grotto as significant an image as Neil Armstrong standing on the moon for the first time. — New York Times

This book lovingly reproduces the best of [Herbert George Ponting and Frank Hurley's] photographs (and prints some that have not previously been seen in book form), and brings the reader tantalizingly close to the heroes of these expeditions and the suffering and sorrow they endured. The text throughout is excellent; the authors describe Ponting's famous photograph of a ship seen through a sloping ice grotto as significant an image as Neil Armstrong standing on the moon for the first time. --<i>New York Times</i>

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David Hempleman-Adams was the first man to reach all four geographic and magnetic poles. He has climbed the highest mountains in all seven continents. I n 1996 he completed a solo expedition to the South Pole and sailed to the South Magnetic Pole. Sophie Gordon is curator of the Royal Photograph Collection. She was formerly associate curator of the Alkazi Collection of Photography, and has published widely on nineteenth-century photography. Emma Stuart is assistant bibliographer in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle.

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