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Image for Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747, in Two Volumes: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742; The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747 (Hakluyt Society Second Series Nos. 177 & 181)

Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747, in Two Volumes: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742; The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747 (Hakluyt Society Second Series Nos. 177 & 181)

By: Barr, William; Williams, Glyndwr

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Hakluyt Society: 1994

Seller ID: 2273157

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Lost Vikings

By: Bechdolt, Jack

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 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 (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...
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Image for 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.

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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands

By: Elliott, Henry E.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1886

Seller ID: 2302237

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1887 printing. Spine faded, edges rubbed with corners slightly exposed, front hinge just beginning to weaken, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1886 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 473, [5] pp. 8vo. Fold-out map follows text, four maps in text, numerous plates and illustrations in text. A 19th century account of the history, geography, peoples, and animals of Alaska.
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Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude and Outright Lunacy

By: Fleming, Fergus

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Granta Books: 1999

Seller ID: 2301653

ISBN: 1862072868

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

1st printing. Pages faintly toned. 1999 Trade Paperback. xvi, 489 pp. Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Re-creating the successes and harrowing failures of the original extreme adventurers, Fergus Fleming captures the incredibly brave, and often downright insane, passion for exploration that led a band of men into situations that would humble even the bravest adventurers today. These men served under John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, who, after the Napoleonic wars, launched the most ambitious pro...
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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: 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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Image for A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772 [Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company. For the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c.] [Northwest] (The Publications of the Champlain Society VI [6])

A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772 [Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company. For the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c.] [Northwest] (The Publications of the Champlain Society VI [6])

By: Hearne, Samuel; Tyrrell, J.B.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Greenwood Press: 1968

Seller ID: 2303941

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First printing of Greenwood reissue. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, top edge lightly foxed. 1968 Hard Cover. xv, 437, viii pp. 8vo. 1968 facsimile of the 1911 limited edition of the work originally published in 1795. Seven fold-out maps follow text, black-and-white photographs and illustrations in text. Reprint of Sabin 31181. Stam's Books on Ice 1.5: Samuel Hearn's account of harrowing polar travel stands alongside those of Franklin and Shackleton among the classics of polar survival... He joined the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as mate aboard the Churchill in 1767, and helped solve the mys...
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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: 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 ...
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Near Death in the Arctic: True Stories of Disaster and Survival (Vintage Departures)

By: Kuhne, Cecil

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Vintage: 2009

Seller ID: 2273762

ISBN: 0307279375

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. Ink name on front flyleaf, pages very faintly toned. 2009 Trade Paperback. xxi, 453 pp. “The fine snow choked his eyes, ears, and throat, and he did not hear his own smothered death cry. Down in cold blackness, 150 feet down, his falling body smashed into a projecting ledge of ironclad ice. With the shattered remains of his sledge, with the doomed dogs, Belgrave Ninnis plunged deeper and deeper into the abyss.” —Lennard Bickel's Mawson's Will. In Near Death in the Arctic, editor Cecil Kuhne gathers astonishing tales of man versus nature, all set against the bleakly beauti...
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Farther North: Tales of the Yukon

By: London, Jack; Callihan, John C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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: 1997

Seller ID: 2158183

ISBN: 0226531791

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1997 3rd printing. Sticker remnant on rear wrapper. We have more books available by this author!. 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...
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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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Information Respecting the Yukon District from the Reports of Wm. Ogilvie, Dominion Land Surveyor, and from Other Sources

By: Ogilvie, Wm.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Government Printing Bureau: 1897

Seller ID: 1993297

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Former library copy, rebound, marks on boards and title page - no internal markings. Lacks double-page map of Yukon River and tributaries, other plates and maps included. Final text page and both pages of second map loose, edges of these pages worn with minor loss, light stain to top margin of just a couple pages, ink note on title page states, 'Purchased by C.L. Barcomble (?) May 75'. None found on the market, no auction records. A good number of copies in OCLC, but of course mostly in Canada. A good candidate for rebinding and restoration. 1897 Hard Cover. 65 pp. Includes 2 double-page maps,...
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Polar Pilot: The Carl Ben Eielson Story

By: Page, Dorothy G.; Drache, Ada M. and Hiram M.; Bjerke, Violet

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Interstate Publishers, Inc.: 1992

Seller ID: 2297879

ISBN: 0813429366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by the editors without inscriptions. No jacket. Spine base very lightly bumped. 1992 Hard Cover. xvi, 409 pp. This is a story of the one of America's unsung heroes in the field of aviation-Carl Ben Eielson. Eielson grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Hatton, North Dakota, and was endowed with sufficient talent to make a comfortable living in any career he desired. Since early in life he dreamed of nothing but flying. This is a story of the one of America's unsung heroes in the field of aviation-Carl Ben Eielson. Eielson grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Hatton, North Dak...
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