The Heart of the Great Alone:Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography- By David Hempleman-Adams, Sophie Gordon, and Emma Stuart

The names of Scott and Shackleton are synonymous with the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. This book, published to coincide with the 100th anniversaries of these brave if ill-fated expeditions, is unique in viewing them through the eyes of the expeditions’ official photographers – Herbert Ponting, who travelled with Scott on the Terra Nova in 1910, and Frank Hurley, who was with Shackleton on the Endurance in 1914. These remarkable early photographic chroniclers endured some of the most hostile conditions on the planet to create images of transcendent beauty and startling emotional force. The Heart of the Great Alone marries this outstanding photography with a commentary of polar exploration from David Hempleman-Adams, who knows the world of the Antarctic as well as these first explorers did. This book forms an essential addition to the literature of polar exploration, with an appeal that lies not only in the story of these great adventures, but also in the records of them in th