b'106735POLAR EXPLORATION 738ERNEST SHACKLETON (1874-1922),735 The Heart of the Antarctic, Being The Story RICHARD WALTER HILLSDON,Of The British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1909,Photographer, Lyttelton, New Zealand, [London: William Heinemann, 1909], first edition, 2 vols. sepia photographic print dated 26/11/10, laid down on card, thick quarto. Volume I, 373 pp, complete, with sepia coloured titled OFFICERS AND CREW CAPT. SCOTTS ANTARCTICfrontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue-EXPED.1910 depicting the men in full uniform on board theguards, 125 B&W photos and 11 diagrams. Volume II, 419 pp, Terra Nova prior to departure, complete with sepia coloured frontispiece and 6 colour plates 24 x 30cm; in contemporary frame, 51 x 56cm. with captioned tissue-guards, 132 B&W photos, 38 other This image was taken at Scotts request so that his officersillustrations, with folding panorama and three folding maps in and crew would have a photograph to send to their familiesendpocket. Ex Library.and friends prior to departure for Antarctica. $400600 $1,0001,250 739736 FRANK HURLEY (1885-1962)CAPTAIN SCOTTS SHIP THE DISCOVERY: StereoA spectre ship looming stark and white Card showing The Discovery in Dock, Lyttleton, N.Z.,against the darkness of the polar nightphotographer J.G. Lamb, Clare Road, St Albans, Christchurch,[the Endurance in the Antarctic winter darkness, trapped in the circa October-November 1901. Weddell Sea, Shackleton Expedition, 27 August 1915],The Royal Research Ship The Discovery was launchedsilver gelatin photograph,on the 21st March 1901. She departed the United Kingdom15 x 20cm.for New Zealand less than 5 months later as part of British National Antarctic Expedition. On arrival in New ZealandPROVENANCEshe was put into dry dock at Lyttleton for repairs to her hullThe Estate of Archdeacon John Bidwell (1884-1974); before departing for the Antarctic on 21 December 1901. Thepresented to him by Frank Hurley.Discovery anchored in McMurdo Sound in January 1902 butThe Endurance was Ernest Shackletons ship on the 1914-1917 by March had become fully icebound and remained so untilImperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. It became trapped in ice, February 1904, when the ice starting to break up and Scottand finally sank in the Weddell Sea on 21st November, 1915. was able to extricate the ship free with use of controlledFrank Hurley had joined the expedition as official photographer dynamite explosions, and the assistance of two relief ships. in October 1914.$200300$2,0003,0007371907-09 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Ponies on Arrival in Antarctic and Joyce, Dogs & Penguins; (2) original unused photo postcards.$100150 '