Category: Polar

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

Price: £29.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press : 2007

Seller ID: 72429

ISBN-13: 9781852970960

Condition: 183pp, decorative boards, hardback, small bump to top corners, Fine. 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: 72381

ISBN-13: 9781852970960

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: 72382

ISBN-13: 9781852970960

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: 72383

ISBN-13: 9781852970960

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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Penguin Biology

By: Davis Lloyd S. & Darby John T.

Price: £59.00

Publisher: Academic Press : 1990

Seller ID: 74426

ISBN-13: 9780122063350

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xx, 467pp, original pictorial boards, Fine.

An invaluable reference covering breeding, feeding, foraging, behaviour, evolution, emergetics and physiology.
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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: £52.00

Publisher: Rediscovery Books : 2006

Seller ID: 57273

ISBN-13: 9781905748235

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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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.

The Voyages Of The 'Morning'.

By: Doorly Gerald S.

Price: £625.00

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, inte

Doorly was Third Officer on Scott?s 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 didn?t happen Doorly undertook the effort. He produced not only a very interesting, pleasant and readable first hand 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: 72516

ISBN: 18542970405

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xx, 224pp, decorative boards, Fine. 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.

Doorly was Third Officer on Scott?s 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 didn?t happen Doorly undertook the effort. He produced not only a very interesting, pleasant and readable first hand 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: £60.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press : 1995

Seller ID: 73352

ISBN: 18542970405

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xx, 224pp, decorative boards, private bookplate, Fine. 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.

Doorly was Third Officer on Scott?s 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 didn?t happen Doorly undertook the effort. He produced not only a very interesting, pleasant and readable first hand 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: 74035

ISBN: 18542970405

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xx, 224pp, decorative boards, Fine. 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.

Doorly was Third Officer on Scott?s 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 didn?t happen Doorly undertook the effort. He produced not only a very interesting, pleasant and readable first hand 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 Antarctic Paintings of Edward Seago

By: Dowdeswell Julian & Lane Heather

Price: £29.00

Publisher: Scott Polar Research Institute : 2006

Seller ID: 74470

ISBN-13: 9780901021052

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 98pp, pictorial hardback, New.

This volume of Edward Seago's dramatic paintings of Antarctica, accomplished during the voyage of HMY Britannia in 1956-57, includes a selection of works from the private collection of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, now King Charles III. Over 30 of Seago's oils are presented in full colour, along with a brief biography, an account of the voyage and a description of the landscape of Antarctica illustrated by a series of modern photographs.
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The Antarctic Paintings of Edward Seago

By: Dowdeswell Julian & Lane Heather

Price: £29.00

Publisher: Scott Polar Research Institute : 2006

Seller ID: 74472

ISBN-13: 9780901021052

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 98pp, pictorial hardback, New.

This volume of Edward Seago's dramatic paintings of Antarctica, accomplished during the voyage of HMY Britannia in 1956-57, includes a selection of works from the private collection of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, now King Charles III. Over 30 of Seago's oils are presented in full colour, along with a brief biography, an account of the voyage and a description of the landscape of Antarctica illustrated by a series of modern photographs.
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The Land Of The Midnight Sun. Summer and Winter Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and Northern Finland.

By: du Chaillu Paul B.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: George Newnes Ltd : 1899

Seller ID: 53087

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 759pp, 250 illustrations, quarter leather, ex. School library, discreet library marks, near VG, no dustwrapper.

With descriptions of the inner life of the people, their manners and customs, the primitive antiquities, etc..
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Through the Frozen Frontier

By: Dufek, Rear Admiral George J.

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Brockhampton Press : 1960

Seller ID: 73761

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, VG+ in VG+ price clipped dw.

The great four year exploration of Antarctica, 1955 to 1959, Operation Deep Freeze.
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Under Scott's Command: Lashly's Antarctic Diaries

By: Ellis Commander A. R.

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz : 1969

Seller ID: 73758

ISBN: 575002360

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 160pp, owner's signature, Fine in VG+ dw. A lovely copy.

Lashly was a petty officer on both of Scott's expeditions, 1901-4 and 1910-13. Lashly together with Tom Crean received the Albert Medal for saving the life of Teddy Evans on the return of the Last Supporting Party from the south.
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Under Scott's Command: Lashly's Antarctic Diaries

By: Ellis Commander A. R.

Price: £39.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz : 1969

Seller ID: 56598

ISBN: 575002360

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 160pp, VG+ in Good+ price clipped dw with sunning to spine.

Lashly was a petty officer on both of Scott's expeditions, 1901-4 and 1910-13. Lashly together with Tom Crean received the Albert Medal for saving the life of Teddy Evans on the return of the Last Supporting Party from the south.
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Geology of Greenland

By: Escher Arthur & Watt W. Stuart [editors]

Price: £85.00

Publisher: The Geological Survey of Greenland : 1976

Seller ID: 74708

ISBN-13: 9788798040408

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 603pp, original blue cloth, owner's name and date on endpaper, near Fine in VG dw with some edge wear.

A most in depth and comprehensive account of all aspects of Greenland's geology. Greenland is noted for its extensive areas of Pre-cambrian rocks which include the oldest dated rocks in the world. It occupies a key position in the North Atlantic region, the geological divisions and faunal provinces represented providing important links between North America and Europe in all geological periods from the Precambrian to the Recent.
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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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Ghosts of the Scarlet Fleet

By: Evans, Rear-Admiral E.R.G.R.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Jarrolds : 1932

Seller ID: 36181

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 320pp, original blue cloth front endpaper removed, Fair.

Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1880 ? 1957, was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer. Evans was seconded from the Navy to the Discovery expedition to Antarctica in 1901?1904, when he served on the crew of the relief ship, and afterwards began planning his own Antarctic expedition. However, he suspended this plan when offered the post of second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910?1913, as captain of the expedition ship Terra Nova. He accompanied Scott to within 150 miles of the Pole, but was sent back in command of ...
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A Field Guide to Ice

By: Fenton James H. C.

Price: £17.00

Publisher: Fenton Publishing : 2023

Seller ID: 74532

ISBN-13: 9781838419332

Binding: paperback

Condition: 138pp, 240 colour photographs, paperback, New, signed by James Fenton.

The book is an introduction to polar and other glacial landscapes. It shows the difference between ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers, illustrates the different types of sea ice, and introduces many kinds of ice and snow. It includes many periglacial features, i.e. those occurring in cold but ice-free areas, and also provides an introduction to the landscapes left behind once ice has retreated, postglacial features. A much enlarged edition of this fantastic reference work.
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A Field Guide to Ice

By: Fenton James H. C.

Price: £17.00

Publisher: Fenton Publishing : 2023

Seller ID: 74533

ISBN-13: 9781838419332

Binding: paperback

Condition: 138pp, 240 colour photographs, paperback, New, signed by James Fenton.

The book is an introduction to polar and other glacial landscapes. It shows the difference between ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers, illustrates the different types of sea ice, and introduces many kinds of ice and snow. It includes many periglacial features, i.e. those occurring in cold but ice-free areas, and also provides an introduction to the landscapes left behind once ice has retreated, postglacial features. A much enlarged edition of this fantastic reference work.
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A Field Guide to Ice

By: Fenton James H. C.

Price: £17.00

Publisher: Fenton Publishing : 2023

Seller ID: 74534

ISBN-13: 9781838419332

Binding: paperback

Condition: 138pp, 240 colour photographs, paperback, New, signed by James Fenton.

The book is an introduction to polar and other glacial landscapes. It shows the difference between ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers, illustrates the different types of sea ice, and introduces many kinds of ice and snow. It includes many periglacial features, i.e. those occurring in cold but ice-free areas, and also provides an introduction to the landscapes left behind once ice has retreated, postglacial features. A much enlarged edition of this fantastic reference work.
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Captain Scott

By: Fiennes Ranulph

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton/Coronet Books : 2004

Seller ID: 67887

ISBN-13: 9780340826997

Binding: paperback

Condition: 508pp, paperback, small tear to top of spine, VG-

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.
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Mind Over Matter. The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent

By: Fiennes Ranulph

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Sinclair Stevenson : 1993

Seller ID: 73789

ISBN-13: 9781856193757

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 326pp, Fine in Fine dw, signed dedication by Ranulph Fiennes on the title page.

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: £4.00

Publisher: Mandarin : 1994

Seller ID: 39726

ISBN-13: 9780749316914

Binding: paperback

Condition: 326pp, paperback, owner's signature, VG+

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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A Journal of a Voyage Of Discovery to the Arctic Regions in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper in the Years 1819 & 1820

By: Fisher Alexander

Price: £280.00

Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown : 1821

Seller ID: 72087

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xi, 320pp, two maps one folding, modern half leather with raised bands, binding Fine, maps foxed, some scattered foxing elsewhere, overall VG+.

Journal by an officer on Parry's expedition. The Hecla and Griper, May 1819 - October 1820, sailed up Baffin Bay, through Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait to the south side of Melville Island where they wintered and returned to England by the same route the following year. The expedition discovered and penetrated a short distance into Prince Regent's Inlet, discovered Banks Island, and surveyed the south shores of Barrow Strait.
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Across the Top of the World. To the North Pole by Sled, Balloon, Airplane and Nuclear Icebreaker.

By: Fisher David E.

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Dell Publishing : 1994

Seller ID: 73793

ISBN-13: 9780385312233

Binding: paperback

Condition: 305pp, paperback, small tear to base of spine, near VG.

A chronicle of the history of polar exploration describes the 1991 expedition of a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker across the polar ice cap and discusses previous expeditions to the North Pole and the explorers who took part.
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Shackleton

By: Fisher Margery & James

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Barrie : 1957

Seller ID: 74747

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 559pp, map endpapers, original black cloth, owner's signature, VG+ in VG dw with small tear repaired.

The authors were given access to Shackleton's papers, diaries and correspondence, they also interviewed almost all of the survivors of his expeditions.
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Perils of the Polar Pack

By: Fleming A. L.

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Missionary Society Of The Church Of England In Canada : 1932

Seller ID: 73760

Binding: paperback

Condition: 175pp, paperback, illusts, folding map of Baffin Island, some chipping to edges, near VG.

The adventures of the Reverend E. W. T. Greenshield of Blacklead Island, Baffin Land.
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Archibald The Arctic

By: Fleming Archibald Lang

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton : 1957

Seller ID: 51594

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 314pp, original blue cloth, map endpapers, inscription, VG- in Fair price clipped dw.

The Autobiography of Archibald Fleming, first Bishop of the Arctic.
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Archibald The Arctic

By: Fleming Archibald Lang

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton : 1957

Seller ID: 73772

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 314pp, original blue cloth, owner's signature, map endpapers, VG, no dustwrapper.

The Autobiography of Archibald Fleming, first Bishop of the Arctic.
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Barrow's Boys

By: Fleming Fergus

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Granta Books : 1999

Seller ID: 73361

ISBN-13: 9781862072862

Binding: paperback

Condition: xvi, 489pp, paperback, private bookplate, VG+

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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Barrow's Boys

By: Fleming Fergus

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Granta Books : 1999

Seller ID: 73798

ISBN-13: 9781862072862

Binding: paperback

Condition: xvi, 489pp, paperback, VG+

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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Antarctic Days With Mawson

By: Fletcher Harold

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Angus & Robertson : 1984

Seller ID: 73383

ISBN-13: 9780207148897

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 313pp, exlibrary, map endpapers, rubbing to edges of boards, sellotape to boards and endpapers, Fair in Fair rippled dw.

A personal account of the B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. of 1929-31.
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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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Leaves From a Diary kept on Board an Exploring Vessel

By: Ford C. Reginald

Price: £22.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2015

Seller ID: 65238

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, newspap

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 his ...
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Leaves From a Diary kept on Board an Exploring Vessel

By: Ford C. Reginald

Price: £22.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2015

Seller ID: 65246

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, newspap

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 his ...
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Leaves From a Diary kept on Board an Exploring Vessel

By: Ford C. Reginald

Price: £22.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2015

Seller ID: 65244

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, newspap

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 his ...
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Farthest South

By: Ford Mr. C. Reginald

Price: £7.00

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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Farthest South

By: Ford Mr. C. Reginald

Price: £7.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2016

Seller ID: 63606

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: £7.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2016

Seller ID: 63610

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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Life In The Freezer

By: Fothergill Alistair

Price: £3.00

Publisher: BBC Books : 1993

Seller ID: 40875

ISBN-13: 9780563364313

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 224pp, large inscription, VG in VG dw

A natural history of the Antarctic, superbly illustrated.
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Arctic Adventure. My Life in the Frozen North.

By: Freuchen Peter

Price: £34.00

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd : 1936

Seller ID: 53116

Binding: hardcover

Condition: ix, 405pp, original blue cloth, inscription, foxing to foreedges, occasional foxing elsewhere, VG in Poor price clipped dw with many repairs.

Account of the author?s experiences as a member of the Danmark Expedition to East Greenland, 1906-07, and the events leading to the establishment of the Thule mission and trading post in northwest Greenland by Knud Rasmussen in 1910. One of the earliest accounts of life in the far North. Freuchen knew the Eskimos intimately and was married to Navarana, an eskimo herself. He recounts many of his travels, on which his purpose was to map the country, trade with Eskimos and collect museum specimens. Illustrated with photographs and maps.
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Arctic Adventure. My Life in the Frozen North.

By: Freuchen Peter

Price: £29.00

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd : 1936

Seller ID: 72961

Binding: hardcover

Condition: ix, 405pp, original blue cloth, foreedge foxing, owner's signature, VG, no dustwrapper.

Account of the author?s experiences as a member of the Danmark Expedition to East Greenland, 1906-07, and the events leading to the establishment of the Thule mission and trading post in northwest Greenland by Knud Rasmussen in 1910. One of the earliest accounts of life in the far North. Freuchen knew the Eskimos intimately and was married to Navarana, an eskimo herself. He recounts many of his travels, on which his purpose was to map the country, trade with Eskimos and collect museum specimens. Illustrated with photographs and maps.
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Ice Floes and Flaming Water. A True Adventure in Melville Bay.

By: Freuchen Peter

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd : 1955

Seller ID: 53093

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 251pp, original blue cloth, very clean indeed, VG+ in Good+ with some tears repaired.

The gripping account of the rescue of five men from a whaler in Melville Bay and includes detail of the Inuit culture and methods of hunting.
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Ice Floes and Flaming Water. A True Adventure in Melville Bay.

By: Freuchen Peter

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Travel Book Club : 1955

Seller ID: 74750

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 251pp, corners a little bumped, very clean, Good+, no dustwrapper.

The gripping account of the rescue of five men from a whaler in Melville Bay and includes detail of the Inuit culture and methods of hunting.
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The Book Of The Eskimos

By: Freuchen Peter

Price: £20.00

Publisher: The World Publishing Company : 1961

Seller ID: 74726

Binding: paperback

Condition: 441pp, original pictorial blue cloth, ex USAF library, owner's signature, very clean, mark to bottom margin of a number of pages, Good in Good+ dw.

The thrilling eyewitness story of the mysterious people who live at the top of the world
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Category: Polar

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