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Price: £3.00
Publisher: Collins: 1966
Edition: 1966 Rep
Seller ID: 31080
Condition: 288pp, exlib, VG.
In 1909, Edward (Teddy) Evans, a Senior Royal Naval officer, accompanied Captain Robert Scott on his Polar expedition as his second in command. View more info
By: Fiennes Ranulph
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Book Club Associates: 1983
Edition: 1983 reprint
Seller ID: 42036
Condition: 320pp, VG in VG dw.
The Transglobe expedition, the first circumpolar journey round the earth. View more info
By: Fiennes Ranulph
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1984
Edition: 1984 reprint
Seller ID: 63099
ISBN: 0340252774
Condition: 320pp, VG+ in VG+ dustwrapper, SIGNED and dated by Ranulph Fiennes.
By: Fiennes Ranulph
Price: £11.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 62097
ISBN: 0340826975
Condition: 508pp, Fine in VG+ dw
For the first time Scott's story is told by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through. View more info
By: Filchner Wilhelm
Price: £120.00
Publisher: Bluntisham Books / The Erskine Press: 1994
Edition: 1994 First Edition
Seller ID: 56543
ISBN: 1852970383
Condition: 253pp, silver embossed image to front board, Fine.
Written by Wilhelm Filchner with the collaboration of expedition members Alfred King and Eric Przybyllok. Translated by William Barr, the First Edition in English. View more info
By: Fiske Willard
Price: £69.00
Publisher: Ithaca, New York: 1907
Edition: 1907 First Edition
Seller ID: 59487
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. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: BCA: 1995
Edition: 1995 reprint
Seller ID: 64019
ISBN: 0297816284
Condition: 179pp, Fine in Fine dw
A blend of science and mythology, When The Sky Fell bridges the gap between fact and fantasy and will fascinate the most hardened cynic. With 34 maps and illustrations. View more info
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts: 1956
Edition: 1956 First US Edition
Seller ID: 62368
Condition: 399pp, map endpapers, VG+ in VG- price clipped dw
The Autobiography of Archibald Fleming, first Bishop of the Arctic. View more info
By: Fleming Fergus
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Granta Books: 2001
Edition: 2001 First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 44448
ISBN: 1862074496
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. View more info
By: Fleming Fergus
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Granta Books: 2001
Edition: 2001 First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 64016
ISBN: 1862074496
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. View more info
By: Fletcher, Joseph
Price: £14.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1956
Edition: 1956
Seller ID: 45063
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. View more info
By: Fletcher, Joseph
Price: £14.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1956
Edition: 1956
Seller ID: 45062
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. View more info
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Cassell: 1990
Edition: 1990 reprint
Seller ID: 67342
ISBN: 030434107X
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. View more info
By: Foley Tim
Price: £15.99
Publisher: Keel Foley Publishing: 2018
Edition: 2018 First Edition
Seller ID: 66980
ISBN: 9781999918910
Condition: 229pp, paperback, New, SIGNED by Tim Foley.
Tom Crean's life saving exploits in Antarctica saw him awarded the prestigious Albert Medal for bravery. From his humble beginnings, incredible feats of bravery, this book takes us on a thrilling journey. It also highlights a campaign with the aim of achieving national recognition for Tom from his country of birth. View more info
By: Ford C. Reginald
Price: £29.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2015
Edition: 2015 reprint
Seller ID: 65237
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 Scott’s 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 hi... View more info
By: Ford C. Reginald
Price: £29.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2015
Edition: 2015 reprint
Seller ID: 65242
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 Scott’s 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 hi... View more info
By: Ford C. Reginald
Price: £29.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2015
Edition: 2015 reprint
Seller ID: 65243
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 Scott’s 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 hi... View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2016
Edition: 2016
Seller ID: 63604
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. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: BBC Books: 1993
Edition: 1993 First Edition
Seller ID: 64263
ISBN: 9563364319
Condition: 224pp, Fine in Fine dw
A natural history of the Antarctic, superbly illustrated. View more info
By: Fox Robert
Price: £6.00
Publisher: BBC Books: 1985
Edition: 1985 First Edition
Seller ID: 64036
ISBN: 0563203323
Condition: 336pp, private bookplate, VG+ in Fine dw
By: Francis Daniel
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Tops'l Books: 1984
Edition: 1984 First Edition
Seller ID: 57659
ISBN: 090639712X
Condition: 117pp, card covers, small mark on rear endpaper, VG
The book is a wonderful history of an era, of people, and of whales. View more info
By: Francis Daniel
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Tops'l Books: 1984
Edition: 1984 First Edition
Seller ID: 64183
ISBN: 090639712X
Condition: 117pp, card covers, light foxing to foreedges, VG
The book is a wonderful history of an era, of people, and of whales. View more info
By: Francis Gavin
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Polygon: 2008
Edition: 2008 First Edition
Seller ID: 62618
ISBN: 1846970784
Condition: 266pp, paperback, VG+
In a compelling blend of travel writing, history and mythology, Gavin Francis offers this unique portrait of the northern fringes of Europe. View more info
By: Frank R Jr
Price: £8.00
Publisher: George Harrap: 1964
Edition: 1964 Advanced Proof Copy
Seller ID: 61627
Condition: 190pp, paperback, handwritten title on spine, VG clean copy
Advance proof copy, unrevised and confidential. With half tone illustrations and maps. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Pelham Books: 1981
Edition: 1981 First Edition
Seller ID: 62696
ISBN: 0729713110
Condition: 151pp, small inscr, VG+ in VG+ dw.
A unique record of life in the far north, Eskimo Diary is the compelling story of a man's coming of age in the late fifties and early sixties, acquiring the skills needed to survive in a cold and unyielding land. With beautiful coloured drawings throughout. View more info
By: Fricker Dr.Karl
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein & Co: 1900
Edition: 1900 First Edition
Seller ID: 7380
Condition: 292pp, original burgundy decorative cloth, sunning to spine, foxing to endpapers, very clean internally, first signs of cracking to front endpaper, VG.
By: Glen A. R.
Price: £65.00
Publisher: Faber and Faber: 1935
Edition: 1935 First Edition
Seller ID: 58428
Condition: 329pp, illusts, folding map, original blue cloth, owner's signature, light foxing to endpapers, VG.
Expedition to explore by sledge parties the northern New Friesland peninsula of West Spitsbergen. Includes brief notes on the efforts of Schroeder-Stranz and Staxrud in the region, 1912-1913. View more info
Price: £36.00
Publisher: Metheun Publishers: 1937
Edition: 1937 First Edition
Seller ID: 55273
Condition: 365pp, 48 plates, 22 maps, original blue cloth, spine cloth speckled and faded, owner's signature, foxing to endpapers, very clean internally, Good+ in colour photocopy of original dw.
Narrative of an expedition of ten members under A. R. Glen to North-East Land, Svalbard, to investigate weather conditions on inland ice, also problems connected with the age, thickness and physical condition of the icecap. View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's: 1934
Edition: 1934 First Edition
Seller ID: 1490
Condition: light foreedge foxing, VG
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Priory Press: 1969
Edition: 1969 First Edition
Seller ID: 32944
Condition: 74pp, VG in VG dw.
A woman's journey to Antarctica. View more info
By: Goodlad James A
Price: £70.00
Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 61736
ISBN: 0904049043
Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, near Fine, signed by James Goodlad. A scarce item.
Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. View more info
By: Goodlad James A
Price: £70.00
Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 63483
ISBN: 0904049043
Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, VG+, signed by James Goodlad. A scarce item.
Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. View more info
By: Goodlad James A.
Price: £70.00
Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 63499
ISBN: 0904049043
Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, VG+, signed by James Goodlad. A scarce item.
Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. View more info
By: Goodlad James A.
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 63500
ISBN: 0904049043
Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, Fine, signed by James Goodlad. A scarce item.
Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. View more info
By: Goodlad James A.
Price: £65.00
Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 63501
ISBN: 0904049043
Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, near Fine. A scarce item.
Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. View more info
By: Grant Jamie
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Watermill Books: 2016
Edition: 2016 First Edition
Seller ID: 63343
ISBN: 0955435897
Condition: 137pp, New, Limited Edition of only 600 numbered copies, signed by Jamie Grant.
Writer and photographer Jamie Grant captures the magic of an austral summer on this island at the end of the world, where he was Artist In Residence for the South Georgia Heritage Trust. View more info
By: Grant Jamie
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Watermill Books: 2016
Edition: 2016 First Edition
Seller ID: 63345
ISBN: 0955435897
Condition: 137pp, New, Limited Edition of only 600 numbered copies, signed by Jamie Grant.
Writer and photographer Jamie Grant captures the magic of an austral summer on this island at the end of the world, where he was Artist In Residence for the South Georgia Heritage Trust. View more info
By: Greeley Adolphus Washington
Price: £140.00
Publisher: 1893
Edition: 1893
Seller ID: 56248
Condition: 4pp, just one side has manuscript, letter dated 1893, 'Washington DC Apr, 13, 1893. Dear Sir, My mother was a Cobb, a daughter of Samuel, and G.D. of Andrew of Gorham, Me. Are you of the Maine branch or do you know anything of that branch? Yours truly A. W. Greely. Mr John N. Cobb'. VG condition.
Adolphus Washington Greely, 1844-1935, a United States Army Officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, and famous Arctic explorer. View more info
By: Greely A. W.
Price: £18.00
Publisher: George G. Harrap: 1929
Edition: 1929 First Edition
Seller ID: 2350
Condition: 216pp, boards G+, a few light marks to boards, one plate resecured another tender, internally very clean
Comprehensive survey of polar exploration. View more info
By: Green Bill
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press: 2008
Edition: 2008 First US Edition
Seller ID: 64009
ISBN: 1934137081
Condition: 271pp, paperback, VG+ copy
The Author has been conducting research in Antarctica since 1968. View more info
By: Gregson Jim
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing: 2012
Edition: 2012 First Edition
Seller ID: 65410
ISBN: 1906148090
Condition: 146pp, pictorial boards, New. signed by Jim Gregson.
Twenty years of adventure mountaineering in the great Arctic wilderness. View more info
By: Gregson Jim
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing: 2012
Edition: 2012 First Edition
Seller ID: 65411
ISBN: 1906148090
Condition: 146pp, pictorial boards, New. signed by Jim Gregson.
Twenty years of adventure mountaineering in the great Arctic wilderness. View more info
Price: £16.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1953
Edition: 1953
Seller ID: 45073
Condition: 469-484pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine October 1953 in green card covers, VG+
By: Guðmundsson Ari Trausti & Kjartansson Halldor
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Vaka - Helgafell: 1996
Edition: 1996 First Edition
Seller ID: 58349
ISBN: 9979203463
Condition: 166pp, pictorial boards, Fine copy
The book holds the answers to most questions asked concerning the geology of Iceland. View more info
By: Gurney Alan
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Pimlico: 1998
Edition: 1998 First Edition
Seller ID: 64058
ISBN: 0712673296
Condition: 315pp, paperback, VG+ copy
Voyages towards Antarctica 1699-1839 View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Airlife Publishing: 1988
Edition: 1988 First Edition
Seller ID: 57532
ISBN: 1853100064
Condition: 357pp, map endpapers, Fine in Fine dw
Leonard Guttridge's skilful recreation of the Jeannett's drama allows us to finally appreciate the gallant struggles of these men who paved the way for Robert Peary's successful quest for the pole in 1909. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Airlife Publishing: 1988
Edition: 1988 First Edition
Seller ID: 57155
ISBN: 1853100064
Condition: 357pp, Fine in Fine dw
Leonard Guttridge's skilful recreation of the Jeannett's drama allows us to finally appreciate the gallant struggles of these men who paved the way for Robert Peary's successful quest for the pole in 1909. View more info
By: Hagen Jon Ove, Liestol Olav, Roland Erik, Jorgensen Torild
Price: £42.00
Publisher: Norsk Polarinstitutt: 1993
Edition: 1993 First Edition
Seller ID: 61111
ISBN: 8276660665
Condition: 141pp, plus 17 maps, softback, exlibrary, VG-.
Price: £34.00
Publisher: IK Foundation & Co Ltd: 2006
Edition: 2006 First Edition
Seller ID: 68184
ISBN: 1904145094
Condition: 414pp, hardback, Fine in Fine dustwrapper, small bump to top rear corner, signed on the half title by the author, Dag Hagenaes-Kjelldahl. This is a new copy.
A personal account. View more info
Price: £34.00
Publisher: IK Foundation & Co Ltd: 2006
Edition: 2006 First Edition
Seller ID: 68186
ISBN: 1904145094
Condition: 414pp, hardback, Fine in Fine dustwrapper, signed on the half title by the author, Dag Hagenaes-Kjelldahl. This is a new copy.
A personal account. View more info
