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Frank Hurley's Antarctica / Helen Ennis.

Title
Frank Hurley's Antarctica / Helen Ennis.
Author
Ennis, Helen.
Publication
Canberra : National Library of Australia, c2010.

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  • Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
  • National Library of Australia.
Description
141 p. : ill.; 19 cm.
Summary
"Frank Hurley is best known for his stunning Antarctic photographs. Here, Helen Ennis discusses some of his most famous images and the conditions in which they were taken. Spread throughout the book are images of typescripts from Hurley's diaries, held in the National Library of Australia, written during both the Mawson and Shackleton expeditions, his words describing the landscape with an artist's eye"--Jacket.
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Subject
  • Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
  • Antarctica > Australian
  • Australian Antarctic Territory
  • Antarctica > Pictorial works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 136) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
'Fired with the Spirit of Adventure': Hurley in Antarctica -- 'Treading these virgin snows': the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 -- 'From the white fields of peace': Antarctica to the red mud of Flanders.
ISBN
9780642276988 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2010444398
OCLC
  • 496673271
  • SCSB-9994413
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library