Polarworld - Polar Books
Overview
Polarworld is a small, independent publishing company that specialises in publishing high-class, bespoke, limited edition and specialist books both as Polarworld publications and as branded titles for our clients.
Our first book The Polar World by Sir Wally Herbert, was published in October 2007. Released as limited-editions and as a standard hardback edition, this extraordinarily beautiful book set the standard for Polarworld's future projects.
All our books are available to order from our website, or from your local bookshop. Stanfords are currently stocking signed copies of Face to Face: Polar Portraits and The Polar World.
Our rights catalogue for publishers is available on request. Please contact us.
Face to Face: Polar Portraits
 By Huw Lewis-Jones
Photography by Martin Hartley
Polarworld in association with Scott Polar Research Institute
Second Edition Hardback: RRP £30 Our Price £25
First Edition Soft-cover: RRP £25 Our Price £10
Special First Edition (limited to 100 copies) £250
First Edition Hardback: RRP £40 Sold Out
'Book of the Week' - The Sunday Times
'Book of the Month - outstanding!' - Travellers Club
'Picture Book of the Year ... evocative ... compelling ... epic' - The Observer
'spell-binding' - The Mail on Sunday
'picture perfect' - The Irish Times Magazine
'remarkable' - Sublime Magazine
'Truly a work of art which I will always treasure' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes
'A masterpiece' - Rosie Stancer
A lavish account of pioneering polar photography and modern portraiture, Face to Face brings together in a single volume both rare, unpublished treasures from the historic collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge, alongside cutting-edge modern imagery from expedition photographer Martin Hartley.
The first book to examine the history and role of polar exploration photography, Face to Face is a unique project of unsurpassed quality. Face to Face features the very first polar photographs, the first portraits of explorers, some of the earliest photographs of the Inuit, the first polar photographs to appear in a book, and rare images never before published from many of the Heroic-Age Antarctic expeditions. Almost all the historic imagery - daguerreotypes, magic lantern slides, glass plate negatives and images from private albums - that have been rediscovered during research for this book have never been before the public eye.
Alongside fifty of the world’s finest historic polar portraits from the SPRI collections are fifty modern-day images by leading expedition photographer Martin Hartley, who has captured men and women of many nations, exploring, working, and living in the Polar Regions today. In addition to this remarkable collection is a foreword written by respected adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, two fascinating essays examining polar photography ‘then’ and ‘now’ by polar historian and curator of art at SPRI, Dr Huw Lewis-Jones; and an afterword by the best-selling author Hugh Brody.
'Faces' include, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Herbert Ponting, Frank Wild, Tom Crean, George Marston, Cecil Meares, Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Wally Herbert, Reinhold Messner, Borge Ousland, Pen Hadow and many others.
The Special First Edition (limited to 100 copies) is bound in real cloth, and is signed by Huw Lewis-Jones, Martin Hartley, Kari Herbert and a number of 'faces' from the book. Also included is one historic, and one modern print from the exhibition. This uniquely-presented book will be a valuable collector's item.
To order your copy please here or visit our shop by clicking on the link at the top of this page. We would like to thank Arctic Kingdom and Graham Dickson for their generous support of this publication. For more information on Arctic Kingdom please visit links
The Polar World
 By Sir Wally Herbert
Hardback: RRP £35 Our Price £17.50
Special Leather-bound Limited Edition in presentation case (limited to 75 copies): RRP £550 Our Price £500
Special Real cloth-bound Limited Edition in cloth slipcase (limited to 150 copies): RRP £250 Our Price £195
'Profoundly evocative ... a uniquely insightful book' - H.R.H. Prince Charles
'Coffee table books seldom come more impressive than this one ... Buy the book - a record of the life and times of the last truly great Polar Explorer' - Alpine Club Review
'This is the sumptuous polar coffee table book par excellence ... printed in a lavish, almost luxurious, style that is rare nowadays' - Dr Ian Stone, Polar Record
'Stunning ... as this book reveals, only once has one of the true greats of polar exploration revealed himself to be just as brilliant a visual artist as he was a far-faring and resolute explorer' - Professor Russell Potter, The Arctic Review
'...a vastly important book of [Sir Wally's] paintings, drawings and stories about these extraordinary regions of the world' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes
This unique book captures the spirit of the polar world, as never seen before - through the yes of a man who was the bridge between the heroic age of exploration and modern adventure; a visionary who learned the art of survival from the Inuit. This superb collection of Sir Wally's paintings, together with personal anecdotes of his experiences and his connection with the polar pioneers of the past, make this book a vital contribution to polar literature.
To order your copy please visit our shop by clicking on the link at the top of this page. If you would prefer to pay by cheque, or would like more information about the book, please email us at "hello'at'polarworld.co.uk
North-East Greenland 1908-60: The Trapper Era
 By Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen
Polarworld in association with Scott Polar Research Institute
Hardback: RRP £45 Our Price £40
At last we have an English edition of Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen's book North-East Greenland 1908-60: The Trapper Era. This updated and enlarged translation of the Danish edition, originally published in 1994, has been published in response to the request of the increasing number of English-speaking scientists, adventurers and tourists visiting North-East Greenland.
Generously supported by the Aage V. Jensens Fonde, and published on behalf of the Scott Polar Research Institute, this book is the story of the pioneers who worked in one of Europe's largest and last wildernesses, now a major part of the World's largest national park. It is also the story of a little known and almost forgotten high-arctic region that was the centre of a historic and dramatic trapping enterprise. This book is based on trappers' published and unpublished diaries, and personal interviews with surviving trappers and other pioneers in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Richly illustrated with both modern and historic images, this book contains fascinating accounts of the lives of individual trappers who endured a lonely and risky existence far from the comforts of civilization. In this vast and great high-arctic region they built hundreds of small and primitive huts and taught themselves to live off the land and its rich fauna in a harmonious way.
This book is much more than just a good history book. With its detailed index, its references to sources and published literature, as well as important information on every hut in the area, it also functions as a useful and necessary guide for all those planning to visit North-East Greenland.
For information on foreign co-editions, please contact us
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