Still Life is a unique and hauntingly beautiful photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expedition bases for explorations led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. At the turn of the twentieth century Antarctica was the focus of one of the last great races of exploration and discovery. Known as the 'heroic age', from 1895 to 1917 Antarctic explorers set off from their huts in search of adventure, science and glory but some, such as Scott, were never to return. The World Wars intervened and the huts were left as time capsules of Edwardian life; a portrait of King Edward VII hangs amid seal blubber, sides of mutton, a jar of gherkins, penguin eggs, cufflinks and darned trousers. One of New Zealand's best known photographers, Jane Ussher, was invited by the Antarctic Heritage Trust to record 'the unusual, the hidden and minutae of these sites'. The Executive Director of the Trust, Nigel Watson, provides a fascinating introduction to the history and atmosphere of each hut and detailed photographic captions.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Murdoch Books
ISBN-13
9781741967395
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95808922
Product Key Features
Book Title
Still Life: inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton
Author
Nigel Watson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
320mm
Item Width
240mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Nigel Watson
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia
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