A nicely-edited anthology of Antarctic adventure, hazard and exploration as told by the explorers themselves in their letters back home, books and journal entries. With black and white photographs, drawings, and maps. Sellick features the heroes, martyrs and others, lesser-known, in a selection that ranges from very early accounts through the 20th-century. Here's the cast of characters, all men, in chronological order: James Cook, James Weddell, James Eights, Charles Wilkes, James Clark Ross, William J.J. Spry, Henrik Bull, Frederick Cook, Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, Edward R.G.R. Evans, Herbert Ponting, Frank Debenham, Douglas Mawson, and Sir Hubert Wilkins. Published in Austrlia.  (ANT181, $26.95)

Captain James Cook
Shackleton