Category: Polar

In 1836, the French King Louis-Philippe, enthusiastic for Southern Hemisphere exploration, supported J. Dumont d Urville s plan for a circumnavigation focusing on the South Seas. D Urville, 1790-1842, had already distinguished himself on two Pacific expeditions and was eager to rival the achievements of James Cook. Between 1837 and 1840, the ships Astrolabe and Zelee explored the waters of the Antarctic area and Oceania in extremely harsh conditions: almost forty crew members died or deserted. However, d Urville discovered a new portion of the Antarctic coast, shed light on the ethnography of ...
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The Shackleton Letters. Behind The Scenes Of The Nimrod Expedition

By: Daly Regina W.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2009

Seller ID: 69516

ISBN: 1852971010

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 360pp, hardback, Fine in Fine dw. A Limited Edition of 450 copies, individually numbered, with bookplate signed by Regina W. Daly.

Ernest Shackleton was obsessed by the Antarctic. He was disappointed at his showing during Scott's Discovery expedition and he wanted to be the first to the South Pole, partly for glory but also because he felt he had to redeem himself. Raising money was fraught with difficulty but in 1907 he finally set sail, aboard the Nimrod. Here, gathered together for the first time, are some 160 letters and telegrams exploring his endeavours to find finance and to prepare for the expedition. His emotions are revealed through personal correspondence with Scott, Dr Edward Wilson, Sir Clements Markham and m...
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The Shackleton Letters. Behind The Scenes Of The Nimrod Expedition

By: Daly Regina W.

Price: £32.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2009

Seller ID: 71471

ISBN: 1852971010

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 360pp, hardback, New in dw. A Limited Edition of 450 copies, individually numbered, with bookplate signed by Regina W. Daly.

The Shackleton Letters. Behind The Scenes Of The Nimrod Expedition

By: Daly Regina W.

Price: £32.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2009

Seller ID: 71470

ISBN: 1852971010

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 360pp, hardback, New in dw. A Limited Edition of 450 copies, individually numbered, with bookplate signed by Regina W. Daly.

The Shackleton Letters. Behind The Scenes Of The Nimrod Expedition

By: Daly Regina W.

Price: £32.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2009

Seller ID: 71469

ISBN: 1852971010

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 360pp, hardback, New in dw. A Limited Edition of 450 copies, individually numbered, with bookplate signed by Regina W. Daly.

With The "Aurora" In The Antarctic 1911-1914.

By: Davis John King

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2007

Seller ID: 61874

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 183pp, decorative boards, hardback, New. The decorative boards closely match the design and appearance of the original edition retaining much of the character of the original First Edition.

Mawson and Davis became closely acquainted during Shackleton's 1907-9 expedition, and Mawson later recruited Davis to be captain of the Aurora on the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Originally published in a small edition in 1919 this is the record of the voyages of Aurora in Southern Waters, written from a sailor's point of view. Built in 1876 as an Arctic whaler Aurora, though old and battered, captained by Davis, managed three Antarctic voyages in support of Mawson and his men. This attractive facsimile of the original edition makes a scarce and fascinating book readily available...
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With The "Aurora" In The Antarctic 1911-1914.

By: Davis John King

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2007

Seller ID: 65178

Binding: hardcover

Voyage Of The Belgica. Fifteen Months In The Antarctic.

By: de Gerlache Adrien

Price: £49.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press / Bluntisham Books: 1998

Seller ID: 65252

ISBN: 1852970545

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 202pp, decorative boards, New

Count Adrien de Gerlache was leader of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-98. This is the first English translation of de Gerlache's 1902 account, the voyage which was Amundsen's first Antarctic experience, and the first to overwinter in the Antarctic. The earliest known photographs of Antarctica were taken during this voyage.
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Voyage Of The Belgica. Fifteen Months In The Antarctic.

By: de Gerlache Adrien

Price: £49.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press / Bluntisham Books: 1998

Seller ID: 51703

ISBN: 1852970545

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 202pp, decorative boards, New

The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U. S. N., and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881. (Two Volumes)

By: De Long G.W. and De Long Emma [editor]

Price: £59.00

Publisher: Rediscovery Books: 2006

Seller ID: 57273

ISBN: 190574823X

Binding: paperback

Condition: 911pp, paperback, near Fine. A facsimile reprint.

Narrative of an expedition made under the authority of the U.S. Navy Dept and financed by J. G. Bennett. The Jeannette sailed from San Francisco, July 8th 1879, called at a number of places in the Bering Sea, visited Cape Serdze Kamen and went adrift near Herald Island. The drift continued north and west for nineteen months until the ship was finally crushed and sank on June 12th 1881, northeast of the New Siberian Islands. Account of the subsequent search for the thirty three men who left the ship, of whom twenty five reached the Lena delta, where De Long and eleven other perished.
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Penguins. Their World, Their Ways

By: De Roy Tui, Jones Mark, Cornthwaite Julie

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Christopher Helm: 2013

Seller ID: 68441

ISBN: 1408152126

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 240pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

This is a fantastic book, wonderful photographs, and huge detail on every aspect of penguin life. If you appreciated the earlier book, Albatross, Their World, Their Ways, by the same author you know this book will not disappoint. Put simply the imagery is stunning.
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Penguins. Their World, Their Ways

By: De Roy Tui, Jones Mark, Cornthwaite Julie

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Christopher Helm: 2013

Seller ID: 68442

ISBN: 1408152126

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 240pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

Penguins. Their World, Their Ways

By: De Roy Tui, Jones Mark, Cornthwaite Julie

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Christopher Helm: 2013

Seller ID: 68440

ISBN: 1408152126

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 240pp, hardback, bump to head of spine, near Fine in near Fine dw.

In The Arctic. Tales Told at Tea-Time

By: Debenham Frank

Price: £11.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 1997

Seller ID: 68973

ISBN: 1852970499

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 124pp, hardback, decorative boards, crease to a few pages, New, no dustwrapper was issued.

A fascinating series of tales written by Debenham in his retirement. Debenham founded the Scott Polar Research Institute in 1920 and in 1926 became its first Director. The book includes drawings, photographs, maps and a bibliography of possible sources.
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Roald Amundsen's Belgica Diary. The First Scientific Expedition To The Antarctic.

By: Decleir Hugo [editor]

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 1999

Seller ID: 57589

ISBN: 1852970588

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 208pp, ink stamp of SPRI, rear corner bumped, VG in VG dw.

A century ago the first Antarctic expedition of a purely scientific nature set sail from Belgium. On board were the Belgian commander, Adrien de Gerlache, the American Polar explorer Frederick Cook and the future conqueror of the South Pole, the Norwegian, Roald Amundsen. Written as a private record this diary provides a fascinating insight into the struggle for survival on the ice during the Antarctic winter and into the pressures involved in being part of a multinational crew.
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Pour Jean Malaurie.102 Temoignages En Hommage A Quarante Ans D'Etudes Arctiques

By: Devers Sylvie [editor]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Plon: 1990

Seller ID: 33878

Binding: paperback

Condition: 944pp, large softback, a Fine copy.

Antarctic Comrades. An American with the Russians in Antarctica.

By: Dewart Gilbert

Price: £19.00

Publisher: The Ohio State University Press: 1989

Seller ID: 56117

ISBN: 0814204902

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 194pp, small private bookplate, VG+ in VG+ dw.

An american joined a Soviet expedition to eastern Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year.
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The Voyages Of The 'Morning'.

By: Doorly Gerald S.

Price: £750.00

Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co.: 1916

Seller ID: 68007

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xx, 224pp, 22 illusts, folding map, original decorative blue cloth with penguin to front board, professionally recased with new spine and original relaid, a few blemishes to boards, foxing to endpapers and folding map, inscription, page edges dusty, internally clean, Good++-. A strong copy of a very scarce title indeed.

Doorly was Third Officer on Scotts relief ship the Morning in 1902-3 and 1903-4, serving under Capt. William Colbeck, who had sailed with Borchgrevink, and under Second Officer Edward Evans. Colbeck was going to write an account of the voyages but when this didnt happen Doorly undertook the effort. He produced not only a very interesting, pleasant and readable firsthand account but also one of the scarcest books of Antarctic exploration. The book records the discovery of Scott Island and the first landing on Beaufort Island, and personal impressions of the Southern party upon their return.
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The Voyages Of The 'Morning'.

By: Doorly Gerald S.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 1995

Seller ID: 69509

ISBN: 18542970405

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 224pp, decorative boards, minor foxing on top edge, otherwise Fine copy. Only 500 copies produced. A lovely reprint capturing much of the character of the original with embossed penguin to front board matching that of the First Edition.

Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments. Astrobiological Analogs

By: Doran Peter T., Lyons W. Berry and McKnight Diane M. [editors]

Price: £29.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2010

Seller ID: 63369

ISBN: 0521889197

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 307pp, pictorial boards, New.

The McMurdo Dry Valleys form the largest relatively ice free area on the Antarctic continent. The perennially ice covered lakes, ephemeral streams, and extensive areas of exposed soil are subject to low temperatures, limited precipitation, and salt accumulation. The dry valleys thus represent a region where life approaches its environmental limits. This unique ecosystem has been studied for decades as an analog to environments on other planets. For the first time, the detailed terrestrial research of the dry valleys is brought together and presented from an astrobiological perspective.
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Dangerous Work. Diary Of An Arctic Adventure.

By: Doyle Arthur Conan

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The British Library: 2012

Seller ID: 64022

ISBN: 0712358641

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 368pp, small stain on foreedges, VG+ in Fine dw

In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the "first real outstanding adventure" of his life.
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Dangerous Work. Diary Of An Arctic Adventure.

By: Doyle Arthur Conan

Price: £16.00

Publisher: The British Library: 2012

Seller ID: 68446

ISBN: 0712358641

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 368pp, hardback, bump to top corner, New in dw.

In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the "first real outstanding adventure" of his life.
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Nature Conservation in Greenland.

By: Egede Ivalo [Editor]

Price: £29.00

Publisher: Atuakkiorfik: 1991

Seller ID: 58303

ISBN: 8755806740

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 132pp, pictorial boards, Fine

Text in three languages (includes english)
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The Book Of Polar Exploration

By: Elias E.L.

Price: £55.00

Publisher: George G. Harrap: 1930

Seller ID: 62686

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 302pp, decorative boards, light foxing to foreedges, VG+ in VG dw. Scarce in dustwrapper.

Hell On Ice. The Saga Of The 'Jeannette'

By: Ellsberg Commander Edward

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co: 1938

Seller ID: 64653

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 421pp, original decorative boards, map endpapers, VG in Poor dw with some loss.

On the basis of his reading and research Ellsberg describes the drift, the partys trip over ice to Lena delta. A vivid and informative albeit secondhand account of the Jeannette expedition, the first expedition to seek the North Pole by way of the Behring Sea.
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The Future History of the Arctic

By: Emmerson Charles

Price: £9.00

Publisher: The Bodley Head: 2010

Seller ID: 69141

ISBN: 184792025X

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 419pp, Fine in Fine dw.

Geoopolitics expert Charles Emmerson weaves together the history of the region.
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Greenland. Then and Now

By: Erngaard Erik

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Lademann: 1972

Seller ID: 70252

ISBN: 8715080730

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 240pp, VG in Good dw.

An attempt to give a historically correct picture of Greenland's development since the earliest times.
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Antarctic World.

By: Euller John

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Abelard-Schuman: 1960

Seller ID: 64055

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 222pp, foxing to foreedges, tiny nick to edge of spine, Good+ in Good+ dw

Antarctic World is a book clinging to a single fascinating theme: Antarctic problems, man's struggles and successes in solving them.
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South With Scott

By: Evans Sir Edward R.G.R.

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Collins: No Date

Seller ID: 69386

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 284pp, original cloth, map at rear, boards badly worn along front edge, owner's signature, Boards worn, reading copy only

In 1909, Edward (Teddy) Evans, a Senior Royal Naval officer, accompanied Captain Robert Scott on his Polar expedition as his second in command. With diagram and three maps
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Mind Over Matter. The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent

By: Fiennes Ranulph

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Sinclair Stevenson: 1993

Seller ID: 41225

ISBN: 1856193756

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 326pp, VG+ in VG+ dw.

On 9th November, 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dt. Michael Stroud set out from the Filchner Ice Shelf to attempt the first unassisted crossing of the Antarctic continent.
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Mind Over Matter. The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent

By: Fiennes Ranulph

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Sinclair Stevenson: 1993

Seller ID: 45947

ISBN: 1856193756

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 326pp, VG+ in VG+ dw.

On 9th November, 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dt. Michael Stroud set out from the Filchner Ice Shelf to attempt the first unassisted crossing of the Antarctic continent.
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Bibliographical Notices VI. Books printed In Iceland 1578-1844. A Fourth Supplement to The British Museum Catalogue with a General Index to the Four Supplements

By: Fiske Willard

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York: 1907

Seller ID: 59487

Binding: paperback

Condition: 48pp, stapled booklet, a little tender and loosening, some staining to front, Good. A scarce item.

I have credited this item to Willard Fiske as he authored the previous Bibliographical Notices, although he died in 1904.
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A Short History of Greenland

By: Fleischer Jorgen

Price: £29.00

Publisher: Aschehoug Dansk Forlag: 2003

Seller ID: 68869

ISBN: 8711162740

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 70pp, pictorial hardback, Fine.

A Short History of Greenland

By: Fleischer Jorgen

Price: £29.00

Publisher: Aschehoug Dansk Forlag: 2003

Seller ID: 68876

ISBN: 8711162740

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 70pp, pictorial hardback, Fine.

Archibald The Arctic

By: Fleming Archibald Lang

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts: 1956

Seller ID: 62368

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 399pp, map endpapers, VG+ in VG- price clipped dw

The Autobiography of Archibald Fleming, first Bishop of the Arctic.
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Ninety Degrees North. The Quest For The North Pole

By: Fleming Fergus

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Granta Books: 2001

Seller ID: 64016

ISBN: 1862074496

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 470pp, VG+ in VG+ dw.

Drawing on unpublished archives and forgotten journals, Fleming tells the story of the North Pole with consummate craftmanship and wit.
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Barrow's Boys

By: Fleming Fergus

Price: £13.00

Publisher: Granta Books: 1998

Seller ID: 66181

ISBN: 186207173X

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 489pp, Fine in Fine dw

Between 1816 and 1845 Barrow's and his and-picked teams of elite naval officers scoured the globe's empty spaces, undertaking the most ambitious programme of exploration the world had ever seen. Fleming highlights some of the great hardships and tragedies experienced in order to fill blanks on the map.
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Ninety Degrees North. The Quest For The North Pole

By: Fleming Fergus

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Granta Books: 2001

Seller ID: 44445

ISBN: 1862074496

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 470pp, Fine in Fine dw.

Drawing on unpublished archives and forgotten journals, Fleming tells the story of the North Pole with consummate craftmanship and wit.
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Three Months On An Arctic Ice Island

By: Fletcher, Joseph

Price: £12.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1956

Seller ID: 45063

Binding: paperback

Condition: 489 504pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine April 1953, in green card cover, VG+

Floating on a Glacial Fragment, U.S. Air Force Scientists Probe Top-of-the-World Mysteries within 100 Miles of the Pole.
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Three Months On An Arctic Ice Island

By: Fletcher, Joseph

Price: £12.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1956

Seller ID: 45062

Binding: paperback

Condition: 489 504pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine April 1953, in green card cover, VG+

Floating on a Glacial Fragment, U.S. Air Force Scientists Probe Top-of-the-World Mysteries within 100 Miles of the Pole.
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The Explorations of Antarctica. The Last Unspoilt Continent.

By: Fogg G.E. & Smith David

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Cassell: 1990

Seller ID: 67342

ISBN: 030434107X

Binding: paperback

Condition: 224pp, paperback, VG.

It is in the interest of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord - The Antarctic Treaty.
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Leaves From a Diary kept on Board an Exploring Vessel

By: Ford C. Reginald

Price: £26.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2015

Seller ID: 65237

Binding: paperback

Condition: This item was First published by Whitcombe & Tombs as No.7 in the New Zealand Booklet Series, 1906. It is now presented in black gift box with the cover of the booklet laid on the lid. It is accompanied by a 12pp pamphlet of biographical details, newspaper articles and pictures, Charles Reginald Ford 1880-1972: notes on an adventurous life' by Crispin de Boos; a coloured reproduction of 4pp advertisement for the graphic lecture 'Farthest South' presented by Ford in Australia; and two reproduction Antarctic postcards. Ford's booklet is 32pp, with 13 illustrations, the cover is linen-textured card. Only 400 copies have been produced.

This is probably the rarest of all first-hand accounts of Scotts Discovery Expedition. Ford was a steward on the expedition and is notable mainly for being the first man to break his leg skiing in the Antarctic. Upon the Expedition's return Ford acted as Scott's secretary during the leader's lecture tour. Some of his photographs were used by Scott in The Voyages of the 'Discovery'. He moved to New Zealand in 1906 and began to study architecture and later became a partner in one of that country's most prestigious firms. Antarctica was published privately in 1908 and this is a facsimile of his o...
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Leaves From a Diary kept on Board an Exploring Vessel

By: Ford C. Reginald

Price: £26.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2015

Seller ID: 65242

Binding: paperback

Leaves From a Diary kept on Board an Exploring Vessel

By: Ford C. Reginald

Price: £26.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2015

Seller ID: 65240

Binding: paperback

Farthest South

By: Ford Mr. C. Reginald

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2016

Seller ID: 63604

Binding: paperback

Condition: 4pp, New.

A coloured reproduction of 4pp, 29x22cm, advertisement for the graphic lecture 'Farthest South' presented by Ford in Australia and promoted by J.C. Williamson.
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Farthest South

By: Ford Mr. C. Reginald

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2016

Seller ID: 63609

Binding: paperback

Condition: 4pp, New.

A coloured reproduction of 4pp, 29x22cm, advertisement for the graphic lecture 'Farthest South' presented by Ford in Australia and promoted by J.C. Williamson.
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