Category: Polar

This is the most extensive bibliography for Arctic publications. Volume 1 covers A-LIBI 1-10007 entries, Volume 2 covers LIBL-Z 10008-20003 entries, Volume 3 is an Index volume, Volume 4 covers 20004-27631 entries with largely material from 1950-52 and more publications relating to Scandinavia and Finland. The publication ultimately ran to 17 volumes, but the first three are the most important. A truly fantastic reference.
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Arctic Bibliography prepared for and in cooperation with The Department Of Defense under the direction of The Arctic Institute Of North America Volumes I - III

By: Tremaine, Marie [editor]

Price: £185.00

Publisher: The Department of Defense : 1953

Seller ID: 71924

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 1498pp, 1499-2967pp, 2968-4478pp, original blue cloth, new endpapers, VG+. A tight attractive set of the most useful first three volumes.

This is the most extensive bibliography for Arctic publications. Volume 1 covers A-LIBI 1-10007 entries, Volume 2 covers LIBL-Z 10008-20003 entries, Volume 3 is an Index volume. The publication ultimately ran to 17 volumes, but the first three are the most important. A truly fantastic reference.
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Putting South Georgia On The Map

By: Trendall Alec

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Alec Trendall : 2011

Seller ID: 72875

ISBN-13: 9780987061409

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 216pp, 112 photographs, hardback, Fine, signed by Alec Trendall. One of only 200 copies of the hardback edition.

The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 170 kilometres long and up to 30 kilometres wide, lies at the southern end of the Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kilometres east of Cape Horn. Its icy mountain spine rises nearly 3000 metres out of the ocean, like a misplaced section of the Alps. The island lies well within the cold waters bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front, and more than half of its area is permanently covered by ice and snow. Although South Georgia was visited with increasing frequency after its discovery by Captain Cook in 1775, and was for a long time a busy base for the seal...
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Putting South Georgia On The Map

By: Trendall Alec

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Alec Trendall : 2011

Seller ID: 61210

ISBN-13: 9780987061416

Binding: paperback

Condition: 216pp, 112 photographs, softback, New.

The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 170 kilometres long and up to 30 kilometres wide, lies at the southern end of the Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kilometres east of Cape Horn. Its icy mountain spine rises nearly 3000 metres out of the ocean, like a misplaced section of the Alps. The island lies well within the cold waters bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front, and more than half of its area is permanently covered by ice and snow. Although South Georgia was visited with increasing frequency after its discovery by Captain Cook in 1775, and was for a long time a busy base for the seal...
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Putting South Georgia On The Map

By: Trendall Alec

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Alec Trendall : 2011

Seller ID: 61211

ISBN-13: 9780987061416

Binding: paperback

Condition: 216pp, 112 photographs, softback, New.

The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 170 kilometres long and up to 30 kilometres wide, lies at the southern end of the Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kilometres east of Cape Horn. Its icy mountain spine rises nearly 3000 metres out of the ocean, like a misplaced section of the Alps. The island lies well within the cold waters bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front, and more than half of its area is permanently covered by ice and snow. Although South Georgia was visited with increasing frequency after its discovery by Captain Cook in 1775, and was for a long time a busy base for the seal...
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Putting South Georgia On The Map

By: Trendall Alec

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Alec Trendall : 2011

Seller ID: 61209

ISBN-13: 9780987061416

Binding: paperback

Condition: 216pp, 112 photographs, softback, New.

The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 170 kilometres long and up to 30 kilometres wide, lies at the southern end of the Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kilometres east of Cape Horn. Its icy mountain spine rises nearly 3000 metres out of the ocean, like a misplaced section of the Alps. The island lies well within the cold waters bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front, and more than half of its area is permanently covered by ice and snow. Although South Georgia was visited with increasing frequency after its discovery by Captain Cook in 1775, and was for a long time a busy base for the seal...
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Siberia. A Record of Travel, Climbing and Exploration

By: Turner Samuel

Price: £75.00

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin : 1905

Seller ID: 50731

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxiv, 420pp, original red highly decorative cloth, professionally recased, sunning to spine area, some soiling to rear board, corners a little bimped, t.e.g., Good+.

A journey across Siberia and the pioneering winter exploration of the Altai Mountains, the highest mountains of Siberia.
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Siberia. A Record of Travel, Climbing and Exploration

By: Turner Samuel

Price: £100.00

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin : 1905

Seller ID: 50730

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxiv, 420pp, original red highly decorative cloth, professionally recased with new spine and original relaid, new endpapers, some sunning to boards, VG. A strong secure copy.

A journey across Siberia and the pioneering winter exploration of the Altai Mountains, the highest mountains of Siberia.
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Guide to Spitsbergen

By: Umbreit Andreas

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Bradt Publications : 1997

Seller ID: 51612

ISBN-13: 9781898323389

Binding: paperback

Condition: 212pp, paperback, VG+

Useful guide, also covers Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen.
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The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures

By: Upton Florence K. & Upton Bertha

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co. : 1967

Seller ID: 63647

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 63pp, 31 full page chromolithographs, pictorial hardback, some slight soiling to boards, VG. An attractive copy of a scarce title.

Golliwogg goes to the North Pole.
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Antarctic Postcards - a series of six Antarctic Postcards

By: Various

Price: £7.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2016

Seller ID: 63590

Binding: paperback

Condition: New.

Six Antarctic postcards with scenes as follows - 1. Three great Polar Explorers: Sir Ernest Shackleton, discoverer of the South Magnetic Pole, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, and Roald Amundsen discoverer of the South Pole, photograph probably taken c.1912-13. 2. Shackleton?s Endurance, crushed in the ice, October 1915. 3. Scott?s Discovery in Winter quarters, painted by Edward Wilson in 1903. 4. One of a series of memorial postcards produced in 1913, after the news broke about the death of Scott and his party. 5. The Discovery in Winterquarters Bay, photographed by...
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Antarctic Postcards - a series of six Antarctic Postcards

By: Various

Price: £7.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2016

Seller ID: 63591

Binding: paperback

Condition: New.

Six Antarctic postcards with scenes as follows - 1. Three great Polar Explorers: Sir Ernest Shackleton, discoverer of the South Magnetic Pole, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, and Roald Amundsen discoverer of the South Pole, photograph probably taken c.1912-13. 2. Shackleton?s Endurance, crushed in the ice, October 1915. 3. Scott?s Discovery in Winter quarters, painted by Edward Wilson in 1903. 4. One of a series of memorial postcards produced in 1913, after the news broke about the death of Scott and his party. 5. The Discovery in Winterquarters Bay, photographed by...
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British Graham Land Expedition 1934-37 Scientific Reports. Volume 1, Nos.1-7 and 9. Eight Reports.

By: Various

Price: £140.00

Publisher: British Museum [Natural History] : 1940

Seller ID: 56126

Binding: paperback

Condition: original paper wrappers, eight reports, plus Introduction and Contents booklet 8pp, some sunning to spines, owner's signature to front cover, VG. Volume 1, No.8 is lacking.

Volume 1, No.1, pp. 1-139, The Biology of the Weddell and Crabeater Seals by G. C. L. Bertram. Volume 1, No.2, pp. 141-194, The Life Cycle of Wilson's Petrel by Brian Roberts. Volume 1, No.3, pp. 195-254, The Breeding Behaviour of Penguins by Brian Roberts. Volume 1, No.4, pp. 255-294, On Two New Species of the Hydroid Myriothela by S. M. Manton. Volume 1, No.5, pp. 295-318, Anoplura by Theresa Clay. Volume 1, No.6, pp. 319-322, Lower Crustacea by J. P. Harding. Volume 1, No.7, pp. 323-326, Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) by O. W. Richards. Volume 1, No.9, pp. 337-367, A Bibliography of Antarctic Orn...
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Narrative of a Voyage by Captain Ross in the Years, 1829, 30, 31, 32 and 33, to Discover a North-West Passage from the Eastern to the Western Ocean

By: Various

Price: £14.00

Publisher: K. Book Editions : 1970

Seller ID: 57491

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 24pp, original blue cloth, fold out engrving, Fine, no dustwrapper. Facsimile of part of the 1835 edition.

Reproduced from a copy held in the special collection on Whaling of the Kingston Upon Hull City Libraries. Part of a series published by K Books on whaling and exploration.
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Island At The Edge Of The World. A South Georgia Odyssey

By: Venables Stephen

Price: £19.00

Publisher: Odyssey Books : 2010

Seller ID: 71939

ISBN-13: 9780340556009

Binding: paperback

Condition: 189pp, softback, New, signed by Stephen Venables.

The greatest challenge was weathering the blizzard conditions and spending 23 days trapped in an ice cave. This latest edition includes an updated historical appendix and an extra chapter, illustrated with 16 new pages of stunning colouur photographs, describing Venables' more recent expeditions to South Georgia.
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Island At The Edge Of The World. A South Georgia Odyssey

By: Venables Stephen

Price: £19.00

Publisher: Odyssey Books : 2010

Seller ID: 71936

ISBN-13: 9780340556009

Binding: paperback

Condition: 189pp, softback, New, signed by Stephen Venables.

The greatest challenge was weathering the blizzard conditions and spending 23 days trapped in an ice cave. This latest edition includes an updated historical appendix and an extra chapter, illustrated with 16 new pages of stunning colouur photographs, describing Venables' more recent expeditions to South Georgia.
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Island At The Edge Of The World. A South Georgia Odyssey

By: Venables Stephen

Price: £19.00

Publisher: Odyssey Books : 2010

Seller ID: 71937

ISBN-13: 9780340556009

Binding: paperback

Condition: 189pp, softback, New, signed by Stephen Venables.

The greatest challenge was weathering the blizzard conditions and spending 23 days trapped in an ice cave. This latest edition includes an updated historical appendix and an extra chapter, illustrated with 16 new pages of stunning colouur photographs, describing Venables' more recent expeditions to South Georgia.
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Man and the Conquest of the Poles

By: Victor Paul-Emile

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton : 1964

Seller ID: 41068

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 306pp, original green cloth, map endpapers, ink stamp of academy library and a couple of minor label removal marks, owner's signature, internally very clean, VG- in Good+ price clipped dw with label removal marks to spine.

A complete, informative and fascinating account of man's explorations to the far ends of the earth. Written by the famous French explorer who has spent more than fourteen years in the polar regions.
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Pole Sud

By: Victor Paul-Emile

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Hachette : 1958

Seller ID: 64041

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 95pp, pictorial boards, map endpapers, VG

Text In French.
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Wringing Secrets From Greenland's Icecap

By: Victor Paul-Emile

Price: £6.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1956

Seller ID: 45057

Binding: paperback

Condition: 121-149pp, extract from National Geographic Magazine Jan 1956, bound in card covers, VG+

La Civilisation Du Phoque

By: Victor Paul-Emile & Lamblin Joelle Robert

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Armand Colin : 1989

Seller ID: 58343

ISBN-13: 9782200371876

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 311pp, Fine in Fine dw

Jeux, Gestes et techniques des eskimo d'ammassalik. Text in French
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The Long Labrador Trail

By: Wallace Dillon

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton : 1907

Seller ID: 57422

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 315pp, original highly decorative boards, light foxing to endpapers, signed private bookplate of well known author Hammond Innes, VG+. A lovely bright copy.

Author's account of his 1905-6 expedition to Lake Michikamau along the route followed by Leonidas Hubbard in 1903.
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Of Dogs and Men. Fifty Years in the Antarctic

By: Walton Kevin & Atkinson Rick

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Images Publishing : 1996

Seller ID: 73826

ISBN-13: 9781897817551

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 190pp, Fine in Fine dw

The illustrated story of the dogs of the British Antarctic Survey 1944-1994.
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The Mackenzie Basin

By: Watson Jessie W.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1952

Seller ID: 45078

Binding: paperback

Condition: 483-500pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine February 1952, in green card covers, VG+

The Antarctic Diaries of Andrew Dougald Watson and Alexander Lorimer Kennedy, together with The paintings of Charles Turnbull Harrisson

By: Watson, Andrew Dougald & Kennedy, Alexander Lorimer & Harrisson, Charles Turnbull [edited by Riffenburgh Beau & de Books Crispin]

Price: £59.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2018

Seller ID: 72637

ISBN-13: 9781852971243

Binding: hardcover

Condition: A stunning limited edition package containing - The Antarctic Diary of Andrew Dougald Watson - hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cover and spine, 192pp, 70 illusts. The Antarctic Diary of Alexander Lorimer Kennedy ? hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cove

Harrisson, Kennedy and Watson were all members of Mawson's Western party led by the legendary Frank Wild, the only person to be awarded the Polar medal with four bars. Charles Harrisson was the biologist on Mawson?s expedition and was also an enormously talented painter. He charted the life of the Western Party through his paintings and drawings. In 1914 he tragically lost his life when the ship he was on was lost with all hands when returning from Macquarie Island.
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The Antarctic Diaries of Andrew Dougald Watson and Alexander Lorimer Kennedy, together with The paintings of Charles Turnbull Harrisson

By: Watson, Andrew Dougald & Kennedy, Alexander Lorimer & Harrisson, Charles Turnbull [edited by Riffenburgh Beau & de Books Crispin]

Price: £59.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2018

Seller ID: 74025

ISBN-13: 9781852971243

Binding: hardcover

Condition: A stunning limited edition package containing - The Antarctic Diary of Andrew Dougald Watson - hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cover and spine, 192pp, 70 illusts. The Antarctic Diary of Alexander Lorimer Kennedy ? hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cove

Harrisson, Kennedy and Watson were all members of Mawson's Western party led by the legendary Frank Wild, the only person to be awarded the Polar medal with four bars. Charles Harrisson was the biologist on Mawson?s expedition and was also an enormously talented painter. He charted the life of the Western Party through his paintings and drawings. In 1914 he tragically lost his life when the ship he was on was lost with all hands when returning from Macquarie Island.
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The Antarctic Diaries of Andrew Dougald Watson and Alexander Lorimer Kennedy, together with The paintings of Charles Turnbull Harrisson

By: Watson, Andrew Dougald & Kennedy, Alexander Lorimer & Harrisson, Charles Turnbull [edited by Riffenburgh Beau & de Books Crispin]

Price: £59.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2018

Seller ID: 74026

ISBN-13: 9781852971243

Binding: hardcover

Condition: A stunning limited edition package containing - The Antarctic Diary of Andrew Dougald Watson - hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cover and spine, 192pp, 70 illusts. The Antarctic Diary of Alexander Lorimer Kennedy ? hardback, cloth bound, blocked on cove

Harrisson, Kennedy and Watson were all members of Mawson's Western party led by the legendary Frank Wild, the only person to be awarded the Polar medal with four bars. Charles Harrisson was the biologist on Mawson?s expedition and was also an enormously talented painter. He charted the life of the Western Party through his paintings and drawings. In 1914 he tragically lost his life when the ship he was on was lost with all hands when returning from Macquarie Island.
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On The Northwest. Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest 1790-1967

By: Webb, Robert Lloyd

Price: £39.00

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press : 1988

Seller ID: 74131

ISBN-13: 9780774802925

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxi, 425pp, original black cloth, Fine in Fine dw. A lovely copy.

On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole Performed in the Years 1822-24 Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea (1827)

By: Weddell James

Price: £32.00

Publisher: David & Charles : 1970

Seller ID: 73835

ISBN-13: 9780715348925

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 324pp, original blue cloth, light rubbing to top and bottom of spine, a few light spots on front board, VG in VG+ dw.

A quality reprint of the second edition published in 1827, with introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs.
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Peary. The Explorer and the Man

By: Weems John Edward

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode : 1967

Seller ID: 52430

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 362pp, map endpapers, small owner's address label, VG in VG- dw with some edge wear.

Weems was given unrestricted access to Peary's papers, including the diary and the observations of his journey to the North Pole and back.
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Race for the North Pole

By: Weems John Edward

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Heinemann : 1961

Seller ID: 57671

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xv, 240pp, original blue cloth, map endpapers, VG in Good price clipped dw with a few edge tears.

The drama and heartbreak of Peary's and Cook's battle to claim the Pole.
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Postcards Of Antarctic Expeditions. A Catalogue: 1898-1958

By: Wharton Margery

Price: £110.00

Publisher: Margery Wharton : 2007

Seller ID: 74453

ISBN-13: 9780953307401

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 361pp, pictorial boards, Fine.

A catalogue covering 1898-1958 of postcards of Antarctic Expeditions. This later edition is much enlarged on the original. A great reference for the collector.
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The Gerald F. Fitzgerald Collection Of Polar Books, Maps, and Art at The Newberry Library. A Catalogue.

By: White David C & Morris Patrick

Price: £17.00

Publisher: The Newberry Library : 2000

Seller ID: 59017

ISBN-13: 9780911028706

Binding: paperback

Condition: 227pp, paperback, New copy

A very useful reference.
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The Story of the Quest

By: Wild Comdr. Frank

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2016

Seller ID: 63600

Binding: paperback

Condition: 4pp, facsimile, New.

The Quest, under the command of Ernest Shackleton, sailed from St Katherine?s Dock, London on 17 September 1921. This was Shackleton?s 4th Antarctic journey, the purpose of which was ostensibly to circumvent the Antarctic continent, looking for lost sub-polar islands. Shackleton was not well?and he saw this last voyage as a chance to relive old times. He appeared somewhat listless and was drinking too much. When the ship arrived in Buenos Aires he had what appeared to be a heart attack but refused to let any doctor attend to him. On 4 January 1922 the ship reached South Georgia and the followi...
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The Story of the Quest

By: Wild Comdr. Frank

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2016

Seller ID: 63598

Binding: paperback

Condition: 4pp, facsimile, New.

The Quest, under the command of Ernest Shackleton, sailed from St Katherine?s Dock, London on 17 September 1921. This was Shackleton?s 4th Antarctic journey, the purpose of which was ostensibly to circumvent the Antarctic continent, looking for lost sub-polar islands. Shackleton was not well?and he saw this last voyage as a chance to relive old times. He appeared somewhat listless and was drinking too much. When the ship arrived in Buenos Aires he had what appeared to be a heart attack but refused to let any doctor attend to him. On 4 January 1922 the ship reached South Georgia and the followi...
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Shackleton's Last Voyage. The Story Of The Quest.

By: Wild Commander Frank

Price: £320.00

Publisher: Cassell & Co : 1923

Seller ID: 55916

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvi, 372pp, 100 illusts, bound in recent light blue quarter leather with raised bands and gilt titling to spine, the decorative illustration from the original front cloth has been pasted on to the front endpaper, some repairs to the half title, slight st

From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr A.H. Macklin.
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Shackleton's Last Voyage. The Story Of The Quest.

By: Wild Commander Frank

Price: £295.00

Publisher: Cassell & Co : 1923

Seller ID: 55392

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvi, 372pp, 100 illusts, original highly decorative cloth, slight wear to extremities, front and rear hinges neatly reinforced, light foxing throughout, VG in colour photocopy of original scarce dw.

From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr A.H. Macklin.
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Shackleton's Last Voyage. The Story Of The Quest.

By: Wild Commander Frank

Price: £320.00

Publisher: Cassell & Co : 1923

Seller ID: 66778

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvi, 372pp, 100 illusts, original highly decorative cloth, professionally recased, new spine with original laid on, light wear to extremities, crease to top corner of a few pages, foreedge foxing, light foxing, Good+ in colour photocopy of original dw.

From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr A.H. Macklin.
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Under The North Pole

By: Wilkins Sir Hubert

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Ernest Benn Ltd : 1931

Seller ID: 57637

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiv, 347pp, exlibrary, quarter leather library binding, lacks title page and publication page, polar record photocopied extract to front endpapers, all illustrations complete, a reading copy.

The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition
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Cheltenham in Antarctica. The Life of Edward Wilson

By: Wilson D.M. & Elder D.B.

Price: £52.00

Publisher: Reardon Publishing : 2000

Seller ID: 74639

ISBN-13: 9781873877548

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 144pp, Fine in Fine slipcase. One of only 500 copies of the Limited Edition. Full leather with pictorial inset to front board, signed on the title page by D. M. Wilson and D. B. Elder, also is a signed dedication to Leif Mills from David Wilson. Leif Mil

Dr David M. Wilson, his great nephew, and David B. Elder, a local Cheltenham librarian, have collaborated to produce the first biography of Edward Wilson for many years. It is richly illustrated with photographs and paintings, many of which are being made available to the public for the first time. The book traces the Cheltenham roots of Edward Wilson's extraordinary life, identifies many of the local sights associated with him, and follows him through to his death with Captain Scott on the return from the South Pole in 1912.
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