Life in the Antarctic

Life in the Antarctic: Photographs by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition includes a prefatory note explaining that “the illustrations in this little book are all reproductions of genuine photographs from life, taken by the Leader and Staff of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, during the voyage of the ‘Scotia,’ 1902-1904.” The note goes on to explain that the photographs “were taken under conditions of climate which make photography extremely difficult and often impossible” and “they are not touched up in any way.” 

Life in the Antarctic was published by Gowans & Gray as part of their series of Gowans’s Nature Books, and was intended for a general audience. A full scan of the book is available through the Internet Archive, though it is missing the colourful artwork featured on the cover of the volume held by Bruce Peel Special Collections. Reports of the scientific results of the expedition were published by the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory in multiple volumes, some of which also included photographs.