{"product_id":"herbert-ponting-anne-strathie-9780750979016","title":"Herbert Ponting: Scott's Antarctic Photographer and Pioneer Filmmaker","description":"Born in Salisbury in 1870, Ponting was raised and educated in Carlisle, Preston and Southport. While working in a bank in Liverpool, Ponting bought his first Kodak compact camera. A decade later - after running a California fruit ranch and working in mining - he was a professional photographer, known for stereoviews of America, Japan and other parts of Asia and for illustrated magazine articles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Ponting returned to Britain in 1907, his Japanese and other photographs were exhibited and published widely. In 1909, while working on a memoir of Japan, he signed up for Scott's \u003ci\u003eTerra Nova \u003c\/i\u003eexpedition - two years later, he was back in London, working on thousands of photographs and film footage of the expedition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In February 1913, the news broke that Scott and his South Pole companions had died. Overnight Ponting's photographs became world famous. But in 1914, while Ponting was giving cinema-lectures on the expedition, war broke out. His offers to serve as a photographer or correspondent were declined, but in 1918 he and Ernest Shackleton joined a government-backed expedition to Spitsbergen. During the turbulent 1920s and 1930s Ponting wrote his memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Great White South\u003c\/i\u003e, reworked his Antarctic films into full-length silent and 'talkie' versions and worked on cinematic inventions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Anne Strathie's new biography \u003cb\u003eincludes previously unpublished material and images\u003c\/b\u003e, including on Ponting's correspondence with photographic magnate George Eastman, his friendship with Shackleton's photographer Frank Hurley, his late-life romance with singer Glae Carrodus and the establishment of his photographic and cinematic legacy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Strathie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0750979011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780750979016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Anne Strathie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993681002751,"sku":"9780750979016","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff9d4474-e915-42b1-ab6f-8abfd284d35c.jpg?v=1683325706","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/herbert-ponting-anne-strathie-9780750979016","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}