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Wally Herbert A WORLD OF MEN First Edition
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First UK edition, first print hardback of Exploration in Antarctica, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1968. Includes a folded map
First UK edition, first print hardback of A WORLD OF MEN - Exploration in Antarctica, by Wally Herbert and published by Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd., London in 1968. Includes a folded map inside a pocket which is attached to the back board.
The book is in good condition (clean blue cloth boards and gilt lettering on spine) with some wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (creasing to the edges, slight rubbing and chipping to corners and spine edges, a one inch by three inch piece missing from the top edge and a one centimeter closed tear to the bottom edge at the back, slight markings on the front which are only visible under the light). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears. There is a previous owner's inscription inside the front board under the jacket flap.
Sir Walter William "Wally" Herbert (1934 – 2007) was a British polar explorer, writer and artist. In 1969 he became the first man to walk undisputed to the North Pole, on the 60th anniversary of Robert Peary's famous, but disputed, expedition. He was described by Sir Ranulph Fiennes as "the greatest polar explorer of our time".
During the course of his polar career, which spanned more than 50 years, he spent 15 years in the wilderness regions of the polar world, and travelled with dog teams and open boats well over 23,000 miles - more than half of that distance through unexplored areas. From 1968 to 1969 Wally led the British Trans-Arctic Expedition, a 3,800-mile surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean, from Alaska to Spitsbergen, which some historians had billed as the ‘the last great journey on Earth. In recognition of his polar achievements, he received several honours and awards: among them the Polar Medal and bar; the Founders' Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the gold medals of several Geographical Societies, and the Explorers Medal of the Explorers Club. He has a mountain range and a plateau named after him in the Antarctic; the most northerly mountain in Svalbard named after him in the Arctic.
Wally was also a prize-winning author and an artist, and had one-man shows in London, New York and Sydney. He wrote a number of books and drew some of the first landscapes of the North Pole, in his early exploration days. He illustrated all of his books and his paintings and drawings received critical acclaim. Wally was also drawn by a Royal Society of Portrait Artist, artist, Andrew James VP RP. This is one of the only known portraits of Sir Wally Herbert and was given as a gift to fellow explorer, Andrew Regan. Herbert was knighted in 2000.
"'The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, which maintains isolated land bases in the Antarctic, requires Surveyors... high physical standard...a test of character and resource.' Young Wally Herbert, depressed by the routine of office life, decided to answer the advertisement. A few months later he sailed from Southampton, bound for Hope Bay in Graham Land.
'What a scene to delight the eyes,' he writes; 'an ambush of towering pyramids, blade ridges, and scooped snow corries; a pool full of inverted mountains jostling for a space to expand amongst the chattering chunks of ice.'
But the Antarctic, though beautiful (and Wally Herbert's own photographs testify to this most eloquently) is also very dangerous. Wally Herbert soon found himself learning this hard way as, on his sledging journeys, he handled fierce dog teams, pitched camp, lost his way in a blizzard, and tried to light a primus or set up a theodolite with frostbitten hands. The climax of his first spell in the Antarctic came when he and three companions explored the spine of the Graham Land plateau - a pioneering journey which almost ended in tragedy.
Five years later Wally Herbert went South again, but this time by aircraft to a very different polar scene - the ice-runway of the American Base at McMurdo Sound. Here, and at Scott Base, the machinery of the aviators and the scientists certainly made life safer and more comfortable, but it also, Wally Herbert fretted, took away the Antarctic's grandeur and mystery. He determined to visit the old huts of Shackleton and Scott, just as, from Hope Bay, he had explored that of the Norwegian, Nordenskjold; and these 'timber shrines' rekindled in him the spirit of the heroic age of exploration. He proposed a dash to the South Pole and was turned down; but he did achieve a more remarkable journey. He retraced, in reverse, Amundsen's route to the Pole along the Axel Heiberg glacier; and his dramatic account places the achievement of that great man in finer and more generous perspective.
Wally Herbert is a self-confessed romantic and 'old-style' explorer, here, he admits, is a book that will answer no questions posed by a man of science...it is written because feeling needs expression and adventure needs its advocate.' For him, it was enough to have realised his dreams. 'At Hope Bay we were twelve men around a bunk-house fire, or two men in a drumming tent, or one man in the solitude of summer-warmed hills. We saw a paradise in snow scapes and heard colour-music in the wind. We were a world of men in harmony with our environment.'"
The map at the end of the book, which shows the Queen Maud range and Axel Heiberg glacier regions, was drawn by the author, and is based on surveys by him and P. M. Otway.
232 pages. Illustrated with numerous full page black & white and colour photographs on glossy pages.
ISBN: 413 26280 4
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The book is in good condition (clean blue cloth boards and gilt lettering on spine) with some wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (creasing to the edges, slight rubbing and chipping to corners and spine edges, a one inch by three inch piece missing from the top edge and a one centimeter closed tear to the bottom edge at the back, slight markings on the front which are only visible under the light). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears. There is a previous owner's inscription inside the front board under the jacket flap.
Sir Walter William "Wally" Herbert (1934 – 2007) was a British polar explorer, writer and artist. In 1969 he became the first man to walk undisputed to the North Pole, on the 60th anniversary of Robert Peary's famous, but disputed, expedition. He was described by Sir Ranulph Fiennes as "the greatest polar explorer of our time".
During the course of his polar career, which spanned more than 50 years, he spent 15 years in the wilderness regions of the polar world, and travelled with dog teams and open boats well over 23,000 miles - more than half of that distance through unexplored areas. From 1968 to 1969 Wally led the British Trans-Arctic Expedition, a 3,800-mile surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean, from Alaska to Spitsbergen, which some historians had billed as the ‘the last great journey on Earth. In recognition of his polar achievements, he received several honours and awards: among them the Polar Medal and bar; the Founders' Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the gold medals of several Geographical Societies, and the Explorers Medal of the Explorers Club. He has a mountain range and a plateau named after him in the Antarctic; the most northerly mountain in Svalbard named after him in the Arctic.
Wally was also a prize-winning author and an artist, and had one-man shows in London, New York and Sydney. He wrote a number of books and drew some of the first landscapes of the North Pole, in his early exploration days. He illustrated all of his books and his paintings and drawings received critical acclaim. Wally was also drawn by a Royal Society of Portrait Artist, artist, Andrew James VP RP. This is one of the only known portraits of Sir Wally Herbert and was given as a gift to fellow explorer, Andrew Regan. Herbert was knighted in 2000.
"'The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, which maintains isolated land bases in the Antarctic, requires Surveyors... high physical standard...a test of character and resource.' Young Wally Herbert, depressed by the routine of office life, decided to answer the advertisement. A few months later he sailed from Southampton, bound for Hope Bay in Graham Land.
'What a scene to delight the eyes,' he writes; 'an ambush of towering pyramids, blade ridges, and scooped snow corries; a pool full of inverted mountains jostling for a space to expand amongst the chattering chunks of ice.'
But the Antarctic, though beautiful (and Wally Herbert's own photographs testify to this most eloquently) is also very dangerous. Wally Herbert soon found himself learning this hard way as, on his sledging journeys, he handled fierce dog teams, pitched camp, lost his way in a blizzard, and tried to light a primus or set up a theodolite with frostbitten hands. The climax of his first spell in the Antarctic came when he and three companions explored the spine of the Graham Land plateau - a pioneering journey which almost ended in tragedy.
Five years later Wally Herbert went South again, but this time by aircraft to a very different polar scene - the ice-runway of the American Base at McMurdo Sound. Here, and at Scott Base, the machinery of the aviators and the scientists certainly made life safer and more comfortable, but it also, Wally Herbert fretted, took away the Antarctic's grandeur and mystery. He determined to visit the old huts of Shackleton and Scott, just as, from Hope Bay, he had explored that of the Norwegian, Nordenskjold; and these 'timber shrines' rekindled in him the spirit of the heroic age of exploration. He proposed a dash to the South Pole and was turned down; but he did achieve a more remarkable journey. He retraced, in reverse, Amundsen's route to the Pole along the Axel Heiberg glacier; and his dramatic account places the achievement of that great man in finer and more generous perspective.
Wally Herbert is a self-confessed romantic and 'old-style' explorer, here, he admits, is a book that will answer no questions posed by a man of science...it is written because feeling needs expression and adventure needs its advocate.' For him, it was enough to have realised his dreams. 'At Hope Bay we were twelve men around a bunk-house fire, or two men in a drumming tent, or one man in the solitude of summer-warmed hills. We saw a paradise in snow scapes and heard colour-music in the wind. We were a world of men in harmony with our environment.'"
The map at the end of the book, which shows the Queen Maud range and Axel Heiberg glacier regions, was drawn by the author, and is based on surveys by him and P. M. Otway.
232 pages. Illustrated with numerous full page black & white and colour photographs on glossy pages.
ISBN: 413 26280 4
PAYMENT CAN BE MADE BY CREDIT CARD VIA NOCHEX (SECURE PAYMENT PROCESSOR FOR UK & INTERNATIONAL BUYERS - NO FEES) WE ALSO ACCEPT CHEQUES OR POSTAL ORDERS IN BRITISH POUNDS AS WELL AS BANK DRAFTS ALSO IN BRITISH POUNDS
Please refer to the statement of delivery below:
* Payment by Credit Card or by postal order: item will be posted within 24 hours
* Payment by Cheque/Bank Draft: item will be posted when funds have cleared
* Combined postage if more than one item is purchased
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
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Condition:Used
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Product Code:2086
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Weight:0.58kg