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By: Back, George; Houston, C. Stuart; MacLaren, I.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press: 1994
Seller ID: 2273165
ISBN: 0773511814
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Faint stain to page base, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1994 Hard Cover. xxviii, 403, [1] pp. Back's journal is particularly valuable because it is the only one that records the entire expedition; Franklin himself relied on it for his own published account of the journey. Both the journal and Back's earlier notes have been edited by Houston, who provides an introduction and extensive annotations, as well as synopses of the frank comments regarding the expedition recorded in the various journals of the Hudson's Bay fur trade posts. I.S. MacLaren's commentary on Back's painti... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Longman: 1964
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 1966137
ISBN: 0582481376
Condition: Near Fine
1971 3rd printing. Includes original jacket. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Near Fine. 1964 Hard Cover. xvi, 328 pp. 8vo. Maps and black & white photographs throughout. From the jacket: ... the first comprehensive treatment for some years of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, their lands and seas, the history of their exploration and their economic and political significance in the modern world. Profusely illustrated with original maps and diagrams and photographs, this work is the result of the author's first-hand experience, particularly of the Canadian Arctic, and of extensive research into Ru... View more info
By: Barr, William; Williams, Glyndwr
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Hakluyt Society: 1994
Seller ID: 2273157
Condition: Near Fine
Owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. 1994 Hard Cover. xii, [2], 333, [5]; xv, [1], 393, [5] pp. 8vo. Accounts of two voyages in search of a Northwest Passage, the first by Christopher Middleton, the second by William Moor and Francis Smith. Extensive footnotes, with bibliography and index for each volume. View more info
By: Bechdolt, Jack
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2261511
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 (1884–1954) 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. Sev... View more info
By: Beechey, F.W.
Price: $1,350.00
Publisher: Carey & Lea: 1832
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1958570
Condition: Good
First American edition. No jacket. 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: Int... View more info
By: Billings, Commodore [Joseph]; Sauer, M. [Martin]; Castera, J.
Price: $1,250.00
Publisher: Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire: 1802
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2289768
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. View more info
By: Bockstoce, John
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Hearst Marine Books: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2197255
ISBN: 0688088392
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Bookplate on paste-down endpaper. 1991 Hard Cover. 256 pp. First edition. In 1988, John Bockstoce, Arctic historian and archaeologist, became the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage west to east in a small boat. Arctic Passages is the extraordinary story of his voyage thirty-five hundred miles through this hemisphere's least explored and most dangerous waterway, from Bering Strait to Baffin Bay. Navigating largely without the benefit of a working compass, John Bockstoce made his way through thousands of uncharted islands along a shifting, featureless coastline, using ... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200431
Condition: Very Good
First edition, second state ('Eleanor' spelled correctly on dedication page). Top page ridge lightly scuffed, publisher mistrimmed pp. 321-328 resulting in 1/16 inch of extra paper on top edge of outer inch of each leaf, front matter lightly foxed, minor loss from jacket corners, jacket spine toned, jacket flap corners slightly trimmed ($5.00 list price still present). 1930 Hard Cover. xvi, 422 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles, photographic endpapers. Black & white photographs and four maps, including two fold-outs of: the Bay of Whales; and the region from the Ross Sea to the South P... View more info
By: Byrd, Richard Evelyn; Anderson, William R.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company: 1981
Seller ID: 2201292
Condition: Very Good
Minor loss of gilt from titles. 1981 Hard Cover. xliii, 388 pp. Includes colored fold-out map illustrating the historic flights of Admiral Byrd (1919-1927) and black-and-white photographs. Man's mastery of the air as shown by the brilliant flights of America's leading air explorer. His life, his thrilling adventures, his North Pole and Transatlantic flights, together with his plans for conquering the Antarctic by air. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a recipient of th... View more info
By: Capelotti, P.J.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Rutgers University Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2197823
ISBN: 0813526337
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 1999 Hard Cover. xix, 209 pp. Chronology of Northern expeditions and events and note on Norwegian geography precede text. Notes, bibliography, and index follow text. Chronicles the adventures of Swedish engineer Salomon August Andree, who made the first failed attempt to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon in 1897, and of American journalist Walter Wellman who organized and led three unsuccessful air expeditions from 1907 to 1909. The book investigates the stories behind the quests to reach this remote and inhospitable outpost by air and examines how those stories were cr... View more info
By: Carter, Robert Randolph; Gill, Jr., Harold B.; Young, Joanne
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2208313
ISBN: 1557503214
Condition: Very Good
First edition. No jacket, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, minor pencil marginalia. 1998 Hard Cover. 201 pp. The diary of a young member of the rescue party sent to find British explorer Sir John Franklin in 1850 describes their hardships and frustrations. Includes black and white illustrations. KEYWORDS: FRANKLIN EXPEDITION EXPLORATION NAUTICAL POLAR ARCTIC ADVENTURE JOURNAL BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY ROBERT RANDOLPH CARTER View more info
By: Chapman, Walker
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York Graphic Society Publishers, Ltd.: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1963931
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Includes original jacket. Jacket faintly toned (as usual). Near Fine. 1964 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. 8vo. From the jacket: Mr. Chapman, beginning with the imaginative ideas of early Greek geographers, tells of the first South Seas voyages, the rugged adventures of the sealers and whalers of the 18th and 19th centuries, and the first major American expedition - prompted by the speeches and writings of a gentleman who believed that habitable worlds inside the earth could be reached through great holes in the Poles. The more scientifically or... View more info
By: Chapman, Walker
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2112981
Condition: Very Good
First Edition. Light edge wear to jacket. Owner bookplate inside front cover. Very Good. 1965 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. An anthology of first-hand accounts of Antarctica from explorers and other voyagers. View more info
By: Conefrey, Mick; Jordan, Tim
Price: $8.00
Publisher: TV Books, New York: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1966076
ISBN: 1575000385
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Minimal wear to corners. Near Fine. 1997 Hard Cover. 189 pp. 8vo. Bibliography and index follow text. This companion to the History Channel documentary is a survey of Arctic explorers including Robert Peary, Frederick Cook, John Ross, John Franklin, William Edward Parry, Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile, and Gino Watkins. View more info
![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]](/assets/images/product/2260245.jpg)
By: Cook, Frederick A.; Peary, Robert E.; Greely, A.W.; Miller, J. Martin
Price: $45.00
Publisher: J.T. Moss: 1909
Seller ID: 2260245
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... View more info
By: Cookman, Scott
Price: $8.00
Publisher: John Wiley: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2198732
ISBN: 0471377902
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2000 Hard Cover. It has been called the greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration. Led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, two state-of-the-art ships and 128 hand-picked men----the best and the brightest of the British empire----sailed from Greenland on July 12, 1845 in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. Fourteen days later, they were spotted for the last time by two whalers in Baffin Bay. What happened to these ships----and to the 129 men on board----has remained one of the most enduring mysteries in the annals of exploration. Drawing up... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Temple University Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2208307
ISBN: 0877220220
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. One-and-a-half inch tear to jacket spine-head, small chips to jacket spine-head and jacket spine-base, multiple tears to jacket edges. 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... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Temple University Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269161
ISBN: 0877220220
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. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Checkmark Books: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2194857
ISBN: 0816041245
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Ink gift note on front endpaper. 1999 Large Hardcover. xii, 228 pp. Across the Top of the World is a vivid retelling of one of the most enduring quests in the history of exploration and discovery--the NorthwestPassage. It covers the earliest endeavors in the sixteenth century, the many ill-fated expeditions that followed, the successful crossing in 1905,and the scientific work conducted in the Northwest Passage today. The bookis beautifully illustrated and gives readers a true sense of the harsh realities of the landscapes and seascapes traversed. Among the books many highlight... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Checkmark Books: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2208306
ISBN: 0816041245
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Near fine. Jacket edges very lightly bumped. 1999 Large Hardcover. xii, 228 pp. Recounts the search for a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and looks at the major expeditions, including Frobisher, Franklin, and Amundsen. KEYWORDS: NORTHWEST PASSAGE ADVENTURE NAUTICAL EXPLORATION POLAR EXPEDITIONS View more info
By: Ehrlich, Gretel; Buckland, David
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Capra Press: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200748
ISBN: 0884963578
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 ... View more info
By: Fisher, David E.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Random House: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2208311
ISBN: 067941116X
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Near fine. Near Fine. 1992 Hard Cover. 256 pp. A chronicle of the history of polar exploration describes the 1991 expedition of a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker across the polar ice cap and discusses previous expeditions to the North Pole and the explorers who took part. Endpapers illustrated with maps. Includes color photographs. KEYWORDS: NORTH POLE SLED BALLOON AIRPLANE NUCLEAR ICEBREAKER TRANSPORTATION AVIATION ADVENTURE NAUTICAL EXPLORATION POLAR EXPEDITIONS View more info
By: Franklin, John; Richardson, John; Kendall, E.N.; Neatby, Leslie H. (Introduction)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: M.G. Hurtig Ltd., Edmonton: 1971
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 1966106
ISBN: 0888300468
Condition: Near Fine
First thus. Includes original jacket. Lacks slipcase. Includes all six folding maps. Near Fine. 1971 Large Hardcover. xl, 320, clvii pp. Six fold-out maps in rear pocket. Engraved plates throughout text. A facsimile of the 1828 original, with a new introduction by Leslie H. Neatby. Arctic Bibliography 5198: Another edition was published in 1829, with title Journey to the shores of the polar sea, in 1825-26-27, but without material change of text. Record of an expedition overland in northwestern Canada to the Mackenzie delta, thence to explore the unknown northern coast: the travels of Franklin... View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Coward-McCann, Inc.: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1971443
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Includes original jacket. Jacket rubbed. Good. 1961 Hard Cover. 315 pp. 8vo. An examination of the Cook-Peary controversy regarding the claims of each to be the first man to reach the North Pole. Freeman defends Cook, who made the claim first in 1908 (Peary challenged the claim in 1909). View more info
By: Freuchen, Peter
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated: 1935
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2200012
Condition: Very Good
Early reprint. Includes original jacket. Jacket rubbed with a few small tears and minor loss from corners, ink name & date on half-title page ('Dorothea Thiele, April 15, 1936'). Good. 1935 Hard Cover. xi, 467 pp. 8vo. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Arctic Bibliography 5271: English translation of Min gronlandske ungdom, 1936, with additional text and illustrations. Account of the author's experiences as a member of the Danmark expedition to East Greenland, 1906-1907; the meteorological, geological and geographic investigations; events leading to the establishment of the Thule mission ... View more info
By: Golding, Harry
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited: 1930
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 1898469
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... View more info
By: Green, Fitzhugh
Price: $40.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1924706
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Spine toned, endpapers faintly split at hinge but binding is solid and tight, name crossed out on front flyleaf, a few small bookworm holes in fore-edge margin. 1926 Hard Cover. viii, 404 pp. 8vo. Original blue patterned cloth, gilt stamped titles, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with black & white photographs, including one picturing Ernest Shackleton, Robert Peary, and Roald Amundsen. A biography of Admiral Robert E. Peary, one of several arctic adventurers during the late 19th and early 20th century. Peary was considered for about 80 years (1909-1989) to be the first to reach ... View more info
By: Gurney, Alan
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Pimlico: 1998
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2200043
ISBN: 0712673296
Condition: Good
1st printing. Shelf wear, pages toned. 1998 Trade Paperback. 315 pp. The Tantalising theory of a huge southern continent, Terra Australis Incognita, had haunted the imaginations of countless geographers throughout history. Not until the second of his great voyages in 1773 did James Cook finally lay the theory to rest. This wonderfully written book tells the story of British, American and Russian expeditions, from the astronomers Halley's voyage in the Paramore in 1699 to the sealer John Balleny's 1839 voyage in the Eliza Scott, all in search of land, fur or elephant seals. These were voyages f... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Berkley Books: 2000
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2265866
ISBN: 0425176541
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. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267751
ISBN: 087021330X
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... View more info
