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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2000

Seller ID: 2306452

ISBN: 0375404031

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2000 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 211, [3] pp. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon th...
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The Lost Vikings

By: Bechdolt, Jack

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation: 1931

Seller ID: 2261511

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, corners lightly bumped, ink note on front endpaper, pages faintly toned. 1931 Hard Cover. x, 267 pp. Features juveniles who discover a Lost Race of Vikings in Alaska. John Ernest Bechdolt (18841954) was an American short story writer, novelist and journalist. He wrote under the name Jack Bechdolt as well as his full name. He worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1909 to 1916, after which he moved to New York, where he worked for Munsey Publications for a year before freelancing. His first novel, The Torch, was serialized in the magazine Argosy in 1920. Severa...
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Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N.

By: Beechey, F.W.

Price: $1,350.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey & Lea: 1832

Seller ID: 1958570

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First American edition. Boards rubbed with some loss from spine label and light spots to boards, foxed throughout, Oxford bookstore bookplate on front endpaper. 1832 Hard Cover. xi, 493 pp. 8vo. 24-page publisher catalog bound in following text. Originally published in England in 1831. Sabin 4347: Captain Beechey and Sir John Franklin had arrived within fifty leagues of each other, when the latter was compelled by the weather to return. One of the most valuable of modern voyages, containing a most interesting visit to Pitcairn's Island, the coast of California, etc. Howes B-309: Interesting ac...
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Image for Voyage Fait par Ordre de l'Imperatrice de Russie Catherine II, Dans le Nord de la Russia Asiatique, Dans la Mer Glaciale, Dans la Mer d'Anadyr, et sur les Cotes de l'Amerique, Depuis 1785 Jusqu'en 1794, in Two Volumes.

Voyage Fait par Ordre de l'Imperatrice de Russie Catherine II, Dans le Nord de la Russia Asiatique, Dans la Mer Glaciale, Dans la Mer d'Anadyr, et sur les Cotes de l'Amerique, Depuis 1785 Jusqu'en 1794, in Two Volumes.

By: Billings, Commodore [Joseph]; Sauer, M. [Martin]; Castera, J.

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire: 1802

Seller ID: 2289768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First French translation of the work published in English the same year. Lacks the large atlas volume. Rebound with new end sheets. Bottom corner torn from last text page in first volume (no loss of text), faintly foxed throughout. 1802 Hard Cover. xxiv, 385, [1]; 418 pp. 8vo. French text. An account of Commodore Joseph Billings's expedition in search of a northeast passage on behalf of Catherine the Great (1785-1794), which resulted in significant advances in maps of Siberia, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Prince William Sound, etc.
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A Tenderfoot with Peary

By: Borup, George; Melville, G.W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1911

Seller ID: 2305598

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fourth edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1911 Hard Cover. xv, [2], 317 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, 29 photographic plates (comprising 46 total illustrations) in text, fold-out map follows text. The first account by a crew member of Peary's 1908 voyage to the North Pole by way of Greenland aboard the Roosevelt, written by the youngest member of the expedition. Arctic Bibliography 2022: Popular account of the Peary Expedition, 1908-1909, by its youngest American member. Includes account of the author's partici...
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A Tenderfoot with Peary (Souvenir Edition)

By: Borup, George; Melville, G.W. (Preface)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1911

Seller ID: 2306963

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Souvenir edition. Board corners rubbed. 1911 Hard Cover. xvi, [2], 317 pp. With 46 illustrations from photographs and a map. The first account by a crew member of Peary's 1908 voyage to the North Pole by way of Greenland aboard the Roosevelt, written by the youngest member of the expedition. Arctic Bibliography 2022: Popular account of the Peary Expedition, 1908-1909, by its youngest American member. Includes account of the author's participation, with one of the supporting parties, in the first part of the polar march, and in a sledge trip along the North Greeland coast with D.B. MacMillan.
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Antarctic Odyssey: In the Footsteps of the South Polar Explorers

By: Collier, Graham and Patricia Graham

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf: 1999

Seller ID: 2306445

ISBN: 0786706538

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Tear along bottom edge of jacket previously mended with tape, jacket spine head rubbed. 1999 Large Hardcover. xiv, 194 pp. Both a journey in the footsteps of others and an account of the author's own experiences with the spectacular wildlife: from Emperor penguins to skuas, which prey on their chicks, to leopard seals and the Orcas. Through his reflections and observations upon the waste of iridescent ice and snow, the book captures the spirit of this place, now the only uninhabited continent and the last place on earth to be explored. He recounts the famous stories of the early...
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Image for Discovery of the North Pole: Dr. Frederick A. Cook's Own Story of How He Reached the North Pole April 21st, 1908. and the Story of Commander Robert E. Peary's Discovery April 6th, 1909. Graphic and Thrilling Stories of the Greatest Achievement of Man Since Columbus Discovered America; Terrible Sufferings and Privations; The Awful Cold; Face to Face with Death by Starvation; American Pluck, Courage and Endurance Reach the Top of the World through Terrific Gales Over a Continent of Ice. Also Containing A True and Authentic Account of Other Great Polar Expeditions, Including Franklin, Greely, Abruzzi, Nares, Nordenskjold, Nansen, Sverdrup, Shackelton, etc. [Shackleton]

Discovery of the North Pole: Dr. Frederick A. Cook's Own Story of How He Reached the North Pole April 21st, 1908. and the Story of Commander Robert E. Peary's Discovery April 6th, 1909. Graphic and Thrilling Stories of the Greatest Achievement of Man Since Columbus Discovered America; Terrible Sufferings and Privations; The Awful Cold; Face to Face with Death by Starvation; American Pluck, Courage and Endurance Reach the Top of the World through Terrific Gales Over a Continent of Ice. Also Containing A True and Authentic Account of Other Great Polar Expeditions, Including Franklin, Greely, Abruzzi, Nares, Nordenskjold, Nansen, Sverdrup, Shackelton, etc. [Shackleton]

By: Cook, Frederick A.; Peary, Robert E.; Greely, A.W.; Miller, J. Martin

Price: $35.00

Publisher: N/A, J.T. Moss: 1909

Seller ID: 2260245

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Moderate loss of gilt from spine and front board, pages toned. 1909 Hard Cover. 428 pp. Tall 8vo. Includes the stories of Frederick Cook and Robert Peary in their quests for the North Pole, along with accounts of previous polar expeditions, and an introduction by A.W. Greely. Edited by J. Martin Miller. Illustrated with half-tone reproductions of expedition photographs. Arctic Bibliography 11467: Account of the two polar marches, drawn from contemporary journals and illustrated with cartoons of the period; also chapters on other famous explorations, on the Arctic in general, and on the controv...
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Doctor Kane of the Arctic Seas

By: Corner, George W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Temple University Press: 1972

Seller ID: 2269161

ISBN: 0877220220

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine faintly toned. 1972 Hard Cover. xiii, 306 pp. Elisha Kent Kane (February 28, 1820 February 16, 1857) was an American explorer, and a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century. He was a member of two Arctic expeditions to rescue the explorer Sir John Franklin. He was present at the discovery of Franklin's first winter camp, but he did not find out what had happened to the fatal expedition.
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Conditions in Alaska. Report of Subcommittee of Committee on Territories Appointed to Investigate Conditions in Alaska. (Report No. 282)

By: Dillingham, Sen.; Burnham, Sen.; Nelson, Sen.; Patterson, Sen.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1904

Seller ID: 2302301

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Includes map. Appears to have been custom-bound for R.O. Moon (his name in gilt on spine base). 1904 Half-Leather. 32 pp. 8vo. Red leather spine and corners, red cloth boards, gilt titles. Large fold-out map follows text. A survey of conditions in Alaska assessing natural resources, transportation considerations, etc.
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Arctic Heart: Poem Cycle

By: Ehrlich, Gretel; Buckland, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Capra Press: 1992

Seller ID: 2200748

ISBN: 0884963578

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages toned. 1992 Trade Paperback. 65 pp. Imagery by David Buckland. Poems written by Gretel Ehrlich after a visit to the Canadian High Arctic in May of 1991. Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, poet, and essayist. Born in 1946 in Santa Barbara, California, she studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She began to write full-time in 1978, living on a Wyoming ranch, after the death of a loved one. Ehrlich debuted in 1985 with The Solace of Open Spaces, a collection of essays on rural life in Wyoming. Her first novel, also ...
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The Wonder Book of the Wild: The Romance of Exploration and Big Game Stalking

By: Golding, Harry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited: 1930

Seller ID: 1898469

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fourth edition, circa 1930. Very good copy in well worn jacket. Pencil name & address on front endpaper, gift note and ink stamp on front blank, board edges rubbed, jacket edges heavily worn with loss from corners, split down jacket spine - looks alright under mylar. Fair. 256 pp. Red cloth spine, pictorial paper over boards - color picture plate mounted on front board matches jacket art. Includes 8 color plates and over two hundred two-tone illustrations, many from photographs. A collection of adventure and exploration writing by various authors. Includes: the Antarctic adventures of Rear-Adm...
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Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition

By: Guttridge, Leonard F.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Berkley Books: 2000

Seller ID: 2265866

ISBN: 0425176541

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Fourth printing. Pages faintly toned. 2000 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 354 pp. The ill-fated 1881 effort to establish an American fort in the Arctic is chronicled in full detail, covering the terrible saga of starvation, mutiny, suicide, shipwreck, execution, and cannibalism that destroyed nineteen of the original twenty-five explorers.
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Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole

By: Guttridge, Leonard F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Annapolis, Naval Institute Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2267751

ISBN: 087021330X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1986 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xx, [2], 357, [3] pp. 8vo. The 1879 expedition began with high hopes of Arctic discoveries; it came to disaster on Siberian shores, and the official investigation that followed was an adroitly managed cover-up. Guttridge, coauthor (with J. D. Smith) of The Commodores, has ferreted out the facts about the Jeannette and the ship's company. Playboy/publisher James Gordon Bennett underwrote the expedition, led by Lt. George W. De Long, USN. The Jeannette was trapped in ice for two years before it broke up; the crew escap...
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Arctic Rovings, or the Adventures of a New Bedford Boy on Sea and Land

By: Hall, Daniel Weston; Beatty, Jr., Jerome; Hogarth, William

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, William R. Scott, Inc.: 1968

Seller ID: 2203090

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. Top edge of jacket lightly rubbed with a few minor tears along top spine edge, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1968 Hard Cover. xiii, 144 pp. The true story of a fifteen-year-old boy on board the whaleship Condor...his escape from the cruelties of shipboard life, his winter in the Siberian wilderness and his rescue and eventual return to the United States. With illustrations of Whales and Whaling in the days of sail.
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E.H. Shackleton: Shackleton the Antarctic Challenge (National Geographic) [Ernest Henry]

By: Heacox, Kim

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic: 1999

Seller ID: 2306442

ISBN: 0792275365

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Top corner of front boards appears to be chewed, remainder mark, top edge and front and end matter foxed. 1999 Large Hardcover. 215 pp. Photographs depicting the Antarctic landscape, accompanied by diary accounts from the crew, enliven this retelling of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated two-year voyage.
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Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885.

By: Healy, M.A.; [U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1887

Seller ID: 2302194

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

First edition. Edges rubbed with corners exposed,. 1887 Large Hardcover. 102 pp. Large fold-out map precedes text, another large fold-out map follows text. Numerous engraved plates (some color) throughout. John Muir was a passenger on the Corwin just a few years before the voyage described here, and wrote a book about it entitled 'The Cruise of the Corwin.' Arctic Bibliography 18401: Account by M.A. Healy of the Corwin's cruise in Bering and Chukchi Seas, giving aid to natives and ship-wrecked whalers, patroling the fur seal islands and visiting Bogoslof Island; dispatching exploratory parties...
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Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic, 1913

By: Jenkins, McKay

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2005

Seller ID: 2265791

ISBN: 0375507213

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2005 Hard Cover. xvi, 278 pp. In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place where the Coppermine River dumps into the Arctic Ocean.Their fate, and the fate of the people they hoped to teach about God, was about to take a tragic turn. Three days after reaching their destination, the tw...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic

By: Lansing, Alfred

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers: 1999

Seller ID: 2306451

ISBN: 0786708425

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition. Spine creased. 1999 Soft Cover. 277 pp. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. The book recounts a harrowing ad...
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Farther North: Tales of the Yukon

By: London, Jack; Callihan, John C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Rochester, Westvaco: 1989

Seller ID: 2298956

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's slipcase. Presentation copy with slip laid in stating 'Ex Libris Alan Dewever, Presented by Marshall' (Marshall is written in blue ink, the rest is printed). 1989 Hard Cover. 309, [1] pp. 8vo. 9 3/8 x 6. Map illustrated endpapers, red ribbon marker bound in. Photographic plates throughout. A collection of short works by the famous American author, including the full text of his novel The Call of the Wild, his famous short story To Build a Fire, and others. Preceding the text is a chronology of Jack London's life and career, and a foreword written specially for this edition...
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Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer

By: Loomis, Chauncey C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: USA, Modern Library: 2000

Seller ID: 2260252

ISBN: 037575525X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Lightly rubbed. 2000 Trade Paperback. 403 pp. In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and of religious and patriotic mission. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final--and fatal--one taking him farther north than any westerner had ever gone before. But Hall was suddenly...
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Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer

By: Loomis, Chauncey C.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: USA, Modern Library: 2000

Seller ID: 2271524

ISBN: 037575525X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Light edge wear. 2000 Trade Paperback. 403 pp. In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and of religious and patriotic mission. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final--and fatal--one taking him farther north than any westerner had ever gone before. But Ha...
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Four Years in the White North

By: MacMillan, Donald B. [Baxter]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers: 1918

Seller ID: 2273161

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition (October 1918, K-S code on copyright page). Owner bookplate on front endpaper. [xiv], 426 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Illustrations from photographs by the author. Arctic Bibliography 10673: Narrative of the Crocker Land expedition, 1913-1917, under D.B. MacMillan, for exploration and mapping of Crocker Land and other unexplored lands between Axel Heiberg and Parry Islands, and for scientific studies. Account of the day-to-day life of the party, and of trips from headquarters at Etah, on northwest Greenland across Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Isla...
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Northward Ho! Including a Narrative of Captain Phipps's Expedition, by a Midshipman.

By: Markham, Albert H.; A Midshipman [Floyd, Thomas]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1879

Seller ID: 1959514

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Rebound in library buckram with new endpapers. 1879 Hard Cover. xlvi, 347 pp. 12mo. Circumpolar map precedes text, engraved frontispiece, engravings in text. Extensive index follows text. A history of Arctic expeditions beginning with King Arthur's voyage to Iceland and spanning thirteen centuries. Includes the previously unpublished journal of midshipman Thomas Floyd from the 1773 expedition of Constantine Phipps to the North Pole. In his preface Markham names Hakluyt and Purchas as his main sources, and for voyages subsequent to their histories cites 'the acknowledged historia...
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The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, in Two Volumes

By: Mawson, Douglas

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1915

Seller ID: 1961931

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First American edition. Includes all three maps in rear pocket. Minor loss from heads of spines, vol. 2 front board and endpapers lightly stained, bookplate of Charles S Culverhouse on front endpaper of each. 1915 Hard Cover. xxx, 348, [1]; xiii, 337, [1] pp. Original red cloth, black titles - one of two binding variants (the other being navy blue cloth with silver titles and Antarctic motif). Illustrated with color and black & white plates, maps. Issued with three fold-out maps in pocket following text of volume 2. A first-hand account of geographic exploration and scientific study by the Aus...
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Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot

By: McGoogan, Ken

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers: 2002

Seller ID: 2307306

ISBN: 0786709936

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Remainder mark, faint edge wear. 2002 Hard Cover. viii, 327 pp. John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Rae's prolific record: 1,776 miles surveyed of uncharted territory; 6,555 miles hiked on snowshoes; and 6,700 miles navigated in small boats. Yet, he was denied fair recognition of his discoveries because he dared to utter the truth about the fate of Sir John Franklin and his crew, Rae's predecessors in the far north. Author Ken McGoogan vividly narrates the astoni...
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Karluk: Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration

By: McKinlay, William Laird

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1976

Seller ID: 2112382

ISBN: 0297771647

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition. Light edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 1976 Hard Cover. The extraordinary account of Stefansson's Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, and the incredible survival of the crew members of Karluk, its leading ship.
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To the Arctic! The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times

By: Mirsky, Jeannette

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1997

Seller ID: 2158183

ISBN: 0226531791

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1997 3rd printing. Sticker remnant on rear wrapper. Who Reached the North Pole First? A recent article in the New York Times (February 17, 1997) presented new evidence from the journals of Admiral Robert E. Peary and Dr. Frederick A. Cook that sheds light on this long-argued debate. Questioning whether the journal entries are truthful, new theories indicate that neither explorer was first, despite their individual claims. To the Arctic contributes valuable information to this debate in its lively narrative of Arctic exploration from the time of the ancient Greeks to the mid-1940s. Revealing st...
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Whaling North and South

By: Morley, F.V.; Hodgson, J.S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1926

Seller ID: 2304593

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine toned. 1926 Hard Cover. xvii, 235 pp. Front board illustrated with an whale and a compass rose. Photographs by the authors. Includes frontispiece and 31 photographic plates. Endpapers illustrated with the North and South Poles. A tale of whaling in the North and South Poles.
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The Polar Passion: The Quest for the North Pole, with Selections from Arctic Journals

By: Mowat, Farley

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1967

Seller ID: 2306443

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Multiple chips and tears to jacket, jacket reverse previously taped. 1967 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 303 pp. 12 1/8 x 8 7/8. 80 pages of contemporary drawings & photos. This unique book contains the rare journals--most of them long out of print--of explorers and adventurers who, for a thousand years, fought through every imaginable peril to try to be the first at the North Pole.--jacket
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