Reviews

"This book lovingly reproduces the best of [Herbert George Ponting and Frank Hurley's] photographs (and prints some that have not previously been seen in book form), and brings the reader tantalizingly close to the heroes of these expeditions and the suffering and sorrow they endured. The text throughout is excellent; the authors describe Ponting’s famous photograph of a ship seen through a sloping ice grotto "as significant an image as Neil Armstrong standing on the moon for the first time."—"New York Times"