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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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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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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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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. 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 escaped in three boats. One disappeared without a t...
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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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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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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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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. 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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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: Ottawa, 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: Danville, Illinois, 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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Northward over the 'Great Ice': A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a Description of the Little Tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the Most Northerly Human Beings in the World, and an Account of the Discovery and Bringing Home of the 'Saviksue,' or Great Cape-York Meteorites

By: Peary, Robert E.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 2303667

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Front hinge of each volume just beginning to weaken, boards lightly rubbed. 1898 Hard Cover. lxxx, 521; xiv, 625 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt, Arctic motif on front boards. Peary's firsthand account of his two separate Greenland expeditions, with maps, diagrams, and about 800 illustrations. Five appendices follow text. Arctic Bibliography 13231: Contents: v. 1, pt. 1 Reconnaissance of the Greenland inland ice, 1886 (Account of the man-drawn sledge trip east of Disko Bay to about 100 miles from edge of the icecap, coasting southeastern Nugssuak Pe...
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Boy Scouts Beyond the Arctic Circle or, the Lost Expedition

By: Ralphson, G. Harvey

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Chicago, M.A. Donahue & Company: 1913

Seller ID: 2204665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Edges lightly rubbed, front hinge starting, ink name and coloring to front endpaper, missing tissue paper between frontispiece and title page, page ridges lightly foxed. 1913 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 254 pp. George Harvey Ralphson (18791940) was a writer of juvenile adventure books in the early 20th century. He was best known for his Boy Scout series of adventures. He was one of the first American Boy Scouts Masters.
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The Polar Voyagers (Explorers of the North)

By: Rasky, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited: 1976

Seller ID: 2269165

ISBN: 0070824053

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges heavily rubbed with a few half-inch tears. Sticker on front endpaper, faint smudge on page ridge. 1976 Hard Cover. 320 pp. This, the first of two volumes, deals with the early explorers, from the marauding Vikings and their discoveries in the New World, to the fur-trade explorers of the late eighteenth century.
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A Voyage of Discovery, Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Enquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage. In Two Volumes.

By: Ross, John

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, Strahan and Spottiswoode, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown: 1819

Seller ID: 1959528

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Rebound in library buckram. Minor tape repairs to fold-outs, expected transfer, otherwise an exceptional set. 1819 Hard Cover. lxix, 265, [2]; 258 pp. 8vo. Two fold-outs (one of Davis' Strait and Baffin's Bay, one depicting several geological instruments) and deviation chart follow text of vol. 2. 2-page terminal publisher ad in both volumes advertises other travel books. Published first in a single quarto volume, this work was reissued in a second edition of two octavo volumes the same year. Based on auction records, the second edition seems the more uncommon of the two, thoug...
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Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony

By: Ruby, Robert

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt: 2001

Seller ID: 2307302

ISBN: 0805052151

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Remainder mark, tiny mark to jacket. 2001 Hard Cover. England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown, but on a mostly frozen small island in the Canadian Arctic. Queen Elizabeth I called that place Meta Incognita -- the Unknown Shore. Backed by Elizabeth I and her key advisors, including the legary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the shadowy Dr. John Dee, the erstwhile pirate Sir Martin Frobisher set out three times across the North Atlantic, in the process leading what is still the largest Arctic expedition in history. In this forbiddin...
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Along Alaska's Great River: A Popular Account of the Travels of the Alaska Exploring Expedition of 1883, Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West [Northwest] Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska

By: Schwatka, Frederick

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York / Rahway, Cassell & Company, Limited / W.L. Mershon & Co.: 1885

Seller ID: 2302216

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Includes all three maps (one in front pocket and two in text). Front hinge repaired. 1885 Hard Cover. 360 pages. Original green cloth hardcover binding, gold lettering, black borders, gilt top page ridge, brown endpapers. Illustrated with engravings and maps. CONTENTS: Introductory; The Inland Passage to Alaska; In the Chilkat Country; Over the Mountain Pass; Along the Lakes; A Chapter about Rafting; The Grand Canon of the Yukon; Down the River to Selkirk; Through the Upper Ramparts; Through the Yukon Flat-Lands; Through the Lower Ramparts and End of the Raft Journey; Down the River, and Home;...
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Edward Wilson of the Antarctic: Naturalist and Friend

By: Seaver, George; Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton and Company Inc.: 1937

Seller ID: 2276894

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First American edition. Jacket spine lightly toned, a few chips to top edge of jacket, jacket edges rubbed. A few minor spots to page ridges, light stain to first few pages along binding. 1937 Hard Cover. xxxiv, 301 pp. Includes two maps and facsimiles of some pages from his [Edward Wilson] diary, with 16 half-tones and a four-color frontispiece. A biography and tribute to scientist and polar explorer Edward Wilson. Wilson was among the men who perished during Robert F. Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, which reached the South Pole after Amundsen, and did not survive the return journey.
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North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic

By: Simon, Alvah

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Broadway Books: 1999

Seller ID: 2261943

ISBN: 076790446X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Pages lightly toned. 1999 Trade Paperback. 328 pp. In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on his boat, frozen in ice 100 miles from the nearest settlement, with the long polar night stretching into darkness for months to come.
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North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic

By: Simon, Alvah

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Broadway Books: 1999

Seller ID: 2307304

ISBN: 076790446X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

1st printing. Smudge to ridge, faint toning. 1999 Trade Paperback. 328 pp. In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on his boat, frozen in ice 100 miles from the nearest settlement, with the long polar night stretching into darkness for months to come.
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