Huw Lewis Jones: 3 books
Imagining the Arctic
Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series...
by Huw Lewis-Jones, Kari Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very end of the earth, as two men raced to conquer the South Pole. A hundred years after Roald Amundsen's triumph and Robert Scott's tragic demise, our fascination with the Antarctic remains as acute as ever....
Mountain Heroes
Portraits of Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
A fascinating view of the personalities that make up the world of mountaineering, from world-famous explorers to native sherpas.