THE AMUNDSEN PHOTOGRAPHS. Edited and introduced by ROLAND HUNTFORD. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987.

In the spring of 1986 an exhibition was mounted in Vadsa, northern Norway, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Roald Amundsen’s flight in the airship Norge from Vadsa, via Kongsfjorden in Svalbard across the Pole to Teller, Alaska, the first flight across the Arctic Ocean. In their search for Amundsen memorabilia the organizers of the exhibition approached Mrs. Alda Amundsen, widow f Roald Amund-sen’s nephew Gustav. Searching the attic of her apartment in Oslo, Mrs. Amundsen produced a wooden box labelled “Horlick’s Malted Milk” and assumed that it contained supplies left over fromone o A u dsen’s polar expeditions. But when it was opened in Vadsa it was found to contain over 200 of Amundsen’s original glass-mounted lantern slides. It was known that Amundsen had had several sets of lantern slides that he used on the lecture circuit, but when his aircraft disappeared while heading north to help in the search for Umberto Nobile and the other survivors of the crash of the airship Italia in 1928, his affairs and his belongings were left in a state of confusion, and the various sets of lantern slides were assumed to have somehow gone missing. The set in the box found in 1986 was thus the first more-or-less complete set ever found. Roland Huntford, who recently published a dual biography of Scott and Amundsen (Huntford, 1979), has made a selection of over 150 of the slides discovered in Vads0. They pertain to three of Amundsen’s major expeditions: his voyage through the Northwest Passage i