A magnificent celebration of 175 years of the Royal Geographical Society, from the early expeditions of Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, to the postwar explorations atop Mount Everest. This superb book assembles a stunning visual record - including maps, original documents and artifacts, as well as more than 400 photographs (the majority in full colour) - that the Royal Geographical Society and those it has sponsored have gathered throughout its history.* The Royal Geographical Society was founded in 1830 and has evolved into the largest geographical society in Europe, and one of the largest in the world. It plays a vital role in all aspects of geography, making an important contribution to our understanding of the world on a regional, international and truly global scale.

To the Ends of the Earth, Visions of a Changing World: 175 Years of Exploration and Photography (The Royal Geographical Society)

Arts & Photography

MILLER, Keith

Popey, David

Bastable, Jonathan

Gardner, Rita

The Royal Geographical Society

Cossons, Sir Neil

Butlin, Robin

Photography & Video

BCL Press

If you're a fan of exquisite art or like to read biographies about fascinating figures, make room for this book in your library. It is lavishly illustrated with 32 color plates and black-and-white photographs of the late Frederik Ebbesen Grue's (1951-1995) finest paintings. You can also learn the painting techniques of this 20th-century master from the artist himself. A self-taught artist working in realism, Grue shares the technical secrets behind the making of his detailed Oriental still lifes and landscapes. Along with his work comes a look at the artist in this beautiful, over-sized coffee-table book. You can follow Grue through the chicken-ranching, disco-dancing, motor-cycle fancying days of his youth to his emergence as an award-winning painter. His artwork has been shown nationally--in major galleries as well as museums--and collected internationally.

Beyond realism: The life and art of Frederik Grue

Weiss, Carol Ann

A very unique look at the mother of Jesus

Mary: Images of the Virgin in Art

Wheeler, Marion

The Medieval Warrior

Paul LaCroix

Walter Clifford Meller

High Adventure

Sports & Outdoors

Edmund Hillary

Mountaineering

The book charts the history of Seaplanes by providing illustrated portraits of every major aircraft in the class, from the early floatplanes, through the great Supermarine and Maachi racers of the Schneider Cup era, on to the legendary Pan American Airways Clippers that pioneered the air routes across the Atlantic and Pacific in the 1930's. Generously illustrated with carefully selected color and Black and white photographs.

Seaplanes & Flying Boats

BILL YENNE

THE DEFINITIVE AND SPELLBINDING RECORD OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, IMMORTALIZED ON FILM BY PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK HURLEY Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917 was one of the great feats of human endurance -- one vividly captured in the powerful and dramatic pictures taken by Frank Hurley, the expedition's official photographer. These images, appearing together here for the first time in print, constitute an amazing body of photojournalism created under the most adverse circumstances imaginable. As this book reveals, however, they are far more than visual reportage; they also are images of great artistry that capture the life-and-death drama that was played out against an arctic landscape of magnificent and terrible beauty.The story told here through Frank Hurley's lens began in the summer of 1914, when Shackleton and his crew set sail from England with the intention of being the first to cross Antarctica from one coast to the other, passing through the South Pole on the way. After five months they reached the freezing Weddell Sea and were within sight of land when the Endurance became trapped in the ice pack. Nine months later, the ship was finally crushed, leaving the crew stranded on drifting ice floes at the end of the earth.

South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 ( the Photographs of Frank Hurley)

History

Frank ( photographer) Hurley

World

pp.244, b/w illustrations, heavy book additional postage will apply

South With Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917:The Photographs of Frank Hurley

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Confounding Logic - Brain Games / Book Creation / David Popey [illustrated Hardcover]

Maria Puchol

To the Ends of the Earth, Visions of a Changing World: 175 Years of Exploration and Photography by The Royal Geogrphical Society Hardcover with Dust Jacket

To the Ends of the Earth, Visions of a Changing World: 175 Years of Exploration and Photography (The Royal Geographical Society) by Royal Geographical Society (2005-05-03)

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