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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
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... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Longman: 1964
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 1966137
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... View more info
By: Barr, William; Williams, Glyndwr
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Hakluyt Society: 1994
Seller ID: 2273157
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
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 Muns... View more info
By: Beechey, F.W.
Price: $1,350.00
Publisher: Carey & Lea: 1832
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1958570
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 valuabl... View more info
By: Bockstoce, John
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Hearst Marine Books: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2197255
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 workin... View more info
By: Borup, George; Melville, G.W. (Preface)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1911
Seller ID: 2262395
Frontispiece and all plates included. Spine faded, hinges loosening, plates pages foxed. 1911 Hard Cover. xv, [2], 317 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, color illustration mounted on front board. Color frontispiece, seven photographic plates in text. Other offerings mention a fold-out map and a larger number of photographs (not present here), indicating that this may be a later reprint. The first account by a crew member of Peary's 1908 voya... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York / The Knickerbocker Press: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1960422
First edition. Light stain to fore-edge affecting about 1/4 inch of margin on some pages, 1/2 inch tear to spine head, front hinge just starting. 1930 Hard Cover. xvi, 422 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles, photographic endpapers. Includes 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 Pole, showing routes of various flights and sledge trips of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. By... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200431
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 & wh... 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
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 2... View more info
By: Capelotti, P.J.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Rutgers University Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2197823
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 investiga... 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
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
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 b... View more info
By: Chapman, Walker
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2112981
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: Chappell, Edward
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Coles Publishing Company: 1970
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 1971463
Wrappers toned. 1970 Trade Paperback. [ix], 279 pp. 1970 facsimile of 1817 original. Includes fold-out map. Arctic Bibliography 2994: Contents include a day-to-day record, May - Nov. 1814, of the voyage to York Factory; observations on Eskimos and Cree; soundings of York Factory; thermometrical observations at Oxford House, 1811; Eskimo objects collected by Chappell and Joseph Billings; Cree vocabulary. View more info
By: Conefrey, Mick; Jordan, Tim
Price: $8.00
Publisher: TV Books, New York: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1966076
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 "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: $45.00
Publisher: J.T. Moss: 1909
Seller ID: 2260245
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 illu... View more info
By: Cookman, Scott
Price: $8.00
Publisher: John Wiley: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2198732
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 shi... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Temple University Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2208307
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 Fran... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Temple University Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269161
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
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 an... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Checkmark Books: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2208306
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: Dodge, Ernest S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Faber and Faber: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2273162
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf ('To Gus + Liz Louis with all best wishes, Ernest S. Dodge'). Owner bookplate on front endpaper, top page ridge lightly foxed. 1973 Hard Cover. 260 pp. 8vo. An account of the polar explorations of Sir John Ross (1777-1856) and his nephew Sir James Clark Ross (1800-1862), who between the two of them participated in several Arctic and Antarctic voyages, including the third expedition in search of Sir John Frank... View more info
By: Du Chaillu, Paul
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1899
Seller ID: 2029671
Former library copy, only a few internal marks. Front hinge just starting. 1899 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 314 pp., [4] publisher catalog. Dark grey cloth, gilt titles, Arctic motif on front board. Numerous engravings. An account of the Arctic north, by the world traveler responsible for first discovering the existence of pygmies. 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
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. Ehrl... View more info
By: Fisher, David E.
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Delta Book: 1994
Seller ID: 1297955
Light wear. 1994 Trade Paperback. 328 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. Men have attacked it with sleds and dirigibles, snowmobiles and submarines. Men have lied about it, died for it, and some have survived. Incredibly, no one truly stood upon the North Pole until 1968. In 1... View more info
By: Fisher, David E.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Random House: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2208311
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... 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
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 o... View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Coward-McCann, Inc.: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1971443
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
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, 1906-1... View more info
