PONTING, HERBERT G. 1870-1935.

1. The Great White South. Being an Account of Experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic. London: Duckworth, 1921.

1. The Great White South. Being an Account of Experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic. London: Duckworth, 1921.
8vo. Frontispiece, 96 photographic plates, 1 map. Modern half blue morocco, retaining original top cloth and spine laid down on a leaf in the back.
FIRST EDITION. Rosove 251.A1; Spence 925; Taurus 82.
2. The Great White South. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1923. 8vo. Publisher's black-lettered green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Second American edition. Spence 928.
3. Het eeuwige ijs. De zuidpool-expeditie van Kapitein Scott. Amsterdam: J.M Meulenhoff, [1924]. 8vo. Publisher's tan pictorial cloth. First Dutch edition.

A professional photographer by trade, Ponting was asked by Scott to produce the visual record of his second Antarctic expedition. Ponting's hundreds of photographic images and his groundbreaking motion picture film set the standard for subsequent polar expedition photography. His narrative text in this book is also engaging and informative. Ponting returned from Antarctica with his photographs, motion picture films, and his extensive photographic equipment at the end of the 1911-12 Antarctic summer.