THE POLAR WORLD : THE UNIQUE VISION OF SIR WALLY HERBERT; Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales (Charles)

Name: THE POLAR WORLD : THE UNIQUE VISION OF SIR WALLY HERBERT; Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales (Charles)
Author: Herbert, Sir Wally
ISBN: 9780955525513

Herbert, Sir Wally

Langue : anglais

Edité par Polarworld, Eccles, UK, 2012

0955525519 / 9780955525513

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Wide Quarto, 10 x 12 in., pp. 128. Illustrated with color plates by Wally Herbert. Dark blue cloth boards with silver polar bear to cover and silver title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. One inch crease to front dustjacket flap. Watercolor, pencil and oil artwork by the master of painting polar scenes. This book presents a broad collection of Sir Wally's paintings, together with personal anecdotes of his experiences in the Polar World. Sir Walter William Herbert (1934 - 2007) was a British polar explorer, writer and artist. In 1969 he became the first man fully recognized for walking to the North Pole, on the 60th anniversary of Robert Peary's disputed expedition. With the help of fellow explorers, dogs, and air drops. Herbert chose to cross the frozen Arctic across its longest axis that crosses the North Pole, from Utqiagvik (Barrow) to Svalbard. In his 2007 obituary, The Telegraph called his expedition "a 15-month journey of 3,720 miles that has never been repeated. "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. He travelled with dog teams and open boats well over 23,000 miles - more than half of that distance through unexplored areas. Among his several books, which he illustrated, were works dealing with polar exploration. He also had solo exhibitions of his drawings and paintings. In 2000 he was knighted for his polar achievements. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus.…

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Titre: THE POLAR WORLD : THE UNIQUE VISION OF SIR WALLY HERBERT; Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales (Charles)
Auteur: Herbert, Sir Wally
Éditeur: Polarworld, Eccles, UK
Année de publication: 2012
Jaquette: Jaquette
Reliure: Hardcover
Langue: anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0955525519
ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780955525513
Illustrateur: Wally Herbert
Édition: First Edition.
Catalogues du vendeur: Art

This stunning book captures the spirit of the Polar World, as never seen before - through the eyes of a man who was the bridge between the heroic age of exploration and modern adventure; a visionary who walked in the footsteps of all the greatest explorers, and learned the art of survival from the Inuit themselves.This superb collection of Sir Wally's paintings, together with personal anecdotes of his experiences in the Polar World and his connection with the polar pioneers of the past, as well as his descriptions of the inspiration behind his paintings, makes this, his last book, outstandingly valuable as a vital contribution to polar literature, and as a unique collectors item.Sir Wally Herbert, who passed away on 12th June 2007, just days after seeing the first copies of the book, was a polar explorer of international distinction - 'the greatest explorer of our time' according to Sir Ranulph Fiennes; a 'phenomenon' according to Lord Shackleton, and a man whose 'determination and courage', according to His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, 'are of such heroic proportions that his country should mark his achievements eventually by having him stuffed and put on display!' Sir Wally, who was Knighted on the last day of the old Millennium as one of the 'icons' of the 20th Century, was not only a polar hero, but is also a prize-winning author with nine books to his credit, and a gifted artist who had one-man shows in London, Sydney and New York, and whose original artworks are owned by Royals, collectors and investors from all over the world. He was the only artist who ever painted the Polar World in all four seasons of the year and, even more remarkably, did so from the unique perspective of the pioneer."The Polar World" is not only an extraordinary celebration of polar life and landscape rarely visited by man, but it is also a journey into the very heart of the last of the great polar pioneers. This is a truly important book that will give its readers an unparalleled insight into the experience of the polar wilderness.

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Captain Scott may be our most famous polar explorer, but one of Britain's most accomplished explorers, Sir Wally Herbert, had to wait until very recently to be publicly elevated to his rightful position as a national icon. The historic, but fundamentally flawed, claims of US explorers Frederick Cook (1908), and Robert Peary (1909) to have attained the North Pole are now publicly discounted by almost all explorers and historians including Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Pen Hadow, and not least Herbert himself. Herbert's seminal analysis of Peary's claim, published in 'The Noose of Laurels' (1989), put Peary's claim onto the thinnest of ice. The de facto result is that British explorer Wally Herbert was the only one now known - beyond reasonable doubt - to have made the first contiguous surface journey to the North Pole. Controversy has raged since 1909 over who was first to the North Pole. The falsity of Frederick Cook's 1908 claim followed within a year of his return. Robert Peary's 1909 claim went largely unchallenged for decades, but more recent detailed analysis of his navigational methods and field records revealed at best these are incapable of proving his claim (ultimately the responsibility of any explorer) which included regular daily mileages of over 50 miles, something that has never been achieved before or since, with either dogs or skidoos. It was also rumoured by some in Resolute Bay, the settlement from where Ralph Plaisted set off for the Pole in 1968, again taking the dramatically shorter route from Canada, that he had had to have his snow-mobiling team lifted by aircraft across the roughest sea ice, which if the case would compromise his claim too. Noteworthy is that Herbert has never seen fit to lay claim to the Pole for he always regarded his Arctic Ocean crossing as his magnum opus. Never satisfied from the outset with merely attaining the North Pole, Herbert's four-man team immediately continued their journey south from the Pole to complete the first ever crossing of the entire Arctic Ocean, and by its longest possible route. It was a 16-month, 3,620 mile dog-sledding epic endeavour which has never been repeated. Ice-core work undertaken en route now provides the benchmark data for many of today's scientific predictions about the status of the melting North Pole ice cap. These predictions have major consequences for global issues including climate change, accessibility of oil and natural gas reserves and the survival of the unique polar ocean ecosystem. Herbert's credentials as a bona fide polar explorer are supported by the fact that no one alive today has made a greater contribution to the surveying and mapping of Antarctica. He has surveyed, travelling with dog-teams, and personally prepared the first detailed maps of the Graham Land plateau region and the coastal area (10,000 sq miles); the Nimrod Glacier region of the Trans-Antarctic Range (10,000 sq miles); and the Queen Maud Range and Beardmore Glacier region of the Trans-Antarctic Range (25,000 sq miles). In the Arctic region again, few have contributed more to our understanding of the native Inuit of North-West Greenland. Sir Wally has a mountain range and a plateau named after him in the Antarctic, and the most northerly mountain in Svalbard named after him in the high Arctic. He was also a prize-winning author with nine books to his credit, and a gifted artist who has had one-man shows in London, Sydney and New York. He was awarded the Polar Medal for his Antarctic Research (1960-62) and another Polar Medal for his crossing of the Arctic Ocean (1968-69); and Gold Medals by the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Scottish Geographical Society, as well as the Explorers Medal by the Explorers Club (New York). Wally Herbert was made a Knight Batchelor by HM The Queen on the last day of the old millennium, as one of the British 'icons' of the 20th century.

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