Category: Polar

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 1986

Seller ID: 64236

ISBN: 087021330X

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 357pp, foxing to foreedges, VG+ in VG+ 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.
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Icebound. The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Airlife Publishing: 1988

Seller ID: 52488

ISBN: 1853100064

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 357pp, map endpapers, Fine in Fine dw

Icebound. The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Airlife Publishing: 1988

Seller ID: 53132

ISBN: 1853100064

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 357pp, map endpapers, Fine in Fine dw

Icebound. The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Airlife Publishing: 1988

Seller ID: 51662

ISBN: 1853100064

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 357pp, map endpapers, Fine in Fine dw

Captain Scott

By: Gwynn Stephen

Price: £8.00

Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd: 1929

Seller ID: 52819

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 248pp, original decorative boards, light wear to extremities, foxing to endpapers, light foxing to foreedges, VG.

An account of Scott's whole life and adventures.
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The Sea And The Ice. A Naturalist In Antarctica

By: Halle Louis J.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1974

Seller ID: 62349

ISBN: 0718112415

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 286pp, map endpapers, VG in VG price clipped dw

This is a naturalist's book, enhanced by the author's knowledge of the history, geography, and exploration of the area.
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An Altitudinal Study of the Flora of the Inland Mountains of South-East Greenland. Describing the Ammassalik-Kialiip Tasiilaa and Kangersertuaq areas between 66° and 69°N

By: Halliday Geoffrey

Price: £34.00

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press: 2019

Seller ID: 68799

ISBN: 8763545543

Binding: paperback

Condition: 96pp, paperback, New, signed by Geoffrey Halliday.

Prior to 1963 virtually all our knowledge of the flora of south-east Greenland had been gained at low altitudes. However, that year saw the first of seventeen European mountaineering expeditions to the region covered in this volume. Their members rarely had any botanical expertise, but the author was able to persuade most to make collections and record the altitude. This resulted in 111 collections from altitudes of up to 2480 m. This, in Schweizerland, is probably the highest altitude for vascular plants in the Arctic. The region was divided into northern and southern halves, 100 species bein...
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A Flora of the East Greenland Central Fjord Region 70°N - 77°N

By: Halliday Geoffrey & Corner R. W. N.

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Trollius Publications: 2019

Seller ID: 68795

ISBN: 0953971872

Binding: paperback

Condition: 280pp, 106 colour plates, 7 colour figures, 3 b&w figures, 245 b&w distribution maps, 5 watercolour sketches, 1 b&w photo, large paperback, New, signed by Geoffrey Halliday.

This fjord region occupies the middle third of Greenland’s east coast. It extends for nearly 500 miles from north to south and from 100 miles east to west, from the inland ice to the outer coast. With its rich flora, by arctic standards, its superb mountain scenery and benign summer climate it is a popular destination for arctic botanists, climbers and general lovers of the Arctic. The book includes distribution maps of 245 species based on 170 visits by expeditions and individuals since William Scoresby in 1822. The main part of the book is the accounts of individual species, which include ...
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A Flora of the East Greenland Central Fjord Region 70°N - 77°N

By: Halliday Geoffrey & Corner R. W. N.

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Trollius Publications: 2019

Seller ID: 68796

ISBN: 0953971872

Binding: paperback

Condition: 280pp, 106 colour plates, 7 colour figures, 3 b&w figures, 245 b&w distribution maps, 5 watercolour sketches, 1 b&w photo, large paperback, New, signed by Geoffrey Halliday.

A Flora of the East Greenland Central Fjord Region 70°N - 77°N

By: Halliday Geoffrey & Corner R. W. N.

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Trollius Publications: 2019

Seller ID: 68797

ISBN: 0953971872

Binding: paperback

Condition: 280pp, 106 colour plates, 7 colour figures, 3 b&w figures, 245 b&w distribution maps, 5 watercolour sketches, 1 b&w photo, large paperback, New, signed by Geoffrey Halliday.

The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe.

By: Hartwig Dr. G.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green And Co: 1892

Seller ID: 57358

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xviii, 523pp, + Map, original highly decorative boards, t.e.g., owner's ink stamp and signature, wear to head of spine, VG. A tight attractive copy.

British Antarctic Survey. Scientific Reports No.101. The History Of Place- Names in the Falkland Islands Dependencies (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

By: Hattersley-Smith G.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: British Antarctic Survey: 1980

Seller ID: 70011

ISBN: 0856650609

Binding: paperback

Condition: 112pp, paperback, maps in rear folder, VG+.

Scientific Reports No.101
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The Conquest Of The South Pole. Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Thornton Butterworth: 1932

Seller ID: 44540

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 318pp, original green cloth, spine faded with wear, private bookplate, 2 plates lacking, Good.

Written with the benefit of conversations with surviving expedition members and the approval of all living leaders of expeditions and by the comrades and relatives of the dead. Hayes approached H. R. Mill to make the publication a joint effort but Mill declined as his opinion on the competence of certain explorers differed from Hayes’s. Mill did however encourage Hayes to continue and provided the Introduction to the book.
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The Conquest of the North Pole. Recent Arctic Exploration

Price: £26.00

Publisher: Thornton Butterworth: 1934

Seller ID: 68882

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 318pp, 22 illusts, 11 maps and diagrams, 3 folding, original green cloth, owner's signature, light foxing to half title page, VG.

A summary of Arctic exploration 1909-1934.
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The Conquest Of The South Pole. Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931

Price: £20.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1933

Seller ID: 52744

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 318pp, spine area badly damp stained, Fair.

Robert Edwin Peary. A Record of his Explorations 1886-1909.

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Grant Richards & Humphrey Toulmin: 1929

Seller ID: 45939

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xv, 299pp, original black cloth, t.e.g. sunning to spine, light foreedge foxing, occasional light foxing, VG, no dutwrapper.

Complete with maps.
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The Year Of The Quiet Sun

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1968

Seller ID: 64011

ISBN: 340044802

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 191pp, map endpapers, light foxing to foreedges, VG in VG dw

One year at Scott Base, Antarctica.
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The Year Of The Quiet Sun

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1968

Seller ID: 69539

ISBN: 340044802

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 191pp, map endpapers, Fine in VG+ dw

One year at Scott Base, Antarctica.
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The Year Of The Quiet Sun

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1968

Seller ID: 52668

ISBN: 340044802

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 191pp, Fine in VG+ dw

One year at Scott Base, Antarctica.
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The Year Of The Quiet Sun

By: Heide-Jorgensen Mads Peter & Lydersen Christian

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1968

Seller ID: 57578

ISBN: 340044802

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 191pp, map endpapers, VG+ in VG price clipped dw

One year at Scott Base, Antarctica.
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South Georgia: A Bibliography. British Antarctic Survey Data. No.7

By: Headland R. K.

Price: £48.00

Publisher: The British Antarctic Survey: 1982

Seller ID: 66429

ISBN: 0856650951

Binding: paperback

Condition: 180pp, card covers, near Fine.

A fantastic reference.
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South Georgia: A Bibliography. British Antarctic Survey Data. No.7

By: Headland R. K.

Price: £48.00

Publisher: The British Antarctic Survey: 1982

Seller ID: 56127

ISBN: 0856650951

Binding: paperback

Condition: 180pp, card covers, near Fine.

A fantastic reference.
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South Georgia: A Concise Account.

By: Headland R.K.

Price: £17.00

Publisher: British Antarctic Survey: 1982

Seller ID: 58564

Binding: paperback

Condition: 28pp plus two sided addendum and map, A4 size card covers, VG+.

A study of the natural resources and wildlife of South Georgia.
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The Island Of South Georgia

By: Headland Robert

Price: £34.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1986

Seller ID: 59233

ISBN: 0521252741

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 293pp, some slight bumping to bottom of boards and bottom corners, VG in VG dw.

The history, geography, geology, biology, economy and government of South Georgia. A very scarce book despite its youth.
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The Island Of South Georgia

By: Headland Robert

Price: £48.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 52538

ISBN: 0521252741

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 293pp, two photographs on photographic paper neatly placed on front pastedown, ink stamps of King Edward Point, South Georgia and the Magistrate's Office, South Georgia, also signed and with the ink stamp of local official, Major J Badgery, Fine in Fine dw.

The history, geography, geology, biology, economy and government of South Georgia. A very scarce book despite its youth.
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The Island Of South Georgia

By: Headland Robert

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 57262

ISBN: 0521252741

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 293pp, owner's signature, VG in VG price clipped dw

The history, geography, geology, biology, economy and government of South Georgia. A very scarce book despite its youth.
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Ringed Seals In The North Atlantic. NAMMCO Scientific Publications. Volume 1

Price: £20.00

Publisher: The North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission: 1998

Seller ID: 58324

ISBN: 8291578044

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 273pp, pictorial boards, Fine copy

The NAMMCO scientific Committee provides scientific advice on marine mammal species and stocks in the North Atlantic.
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The White Continent. The Story of Antarctica

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode: 1950

Seller ID: 64005

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 211pp, foxing to foreedges, light foxing to spine, Good+ in VG- dw

Henry was a correspondent with the United States Navy Expedition 1946-47.
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The White Continent. The Story of Antarctica

Price: £3.00

Publisher: The Scientific Book Club: 1950

Seller ID: 70203

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 211pp, original red cloth, sunning to head of spine, owner's signature ink stamp to front endpaper, VG in Fair chipped dw.

Henry was a correspondent with the United States Navy Expedition 1946-47.
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The White Continent. The Story of Antarctica

Price: £3.00

Publisher: The Scientific Book Club: 1950

Seller ID: 40820

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 211pp, original red cloth, Good, no dustwrapper.

Henry was a correspondent with the United States Navy Expedition 1946-47.
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The White Continent. The Story of Antarctica

Price: £3.00

Publisher: The Scientific Book Club: 1950

Seller ID: 33090

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 211pp, original red cloth, VG- in Fair chipped dw.

Henry was a correspondent with the United States Navy Expedition 1946-47.
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The Explorer's Daughter. A Young Englishwoman Rediscovers Her Arctic Childhood

By: Herbert Kari

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Viking: 2004

Seller ID: 57189

ISBN: 067091374X

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 355pp, VG in VG price clipped dw, signed by Kari Herbert and Marie Herbert.

Kari lived with the Inuit with her parents Wally and Marie Herbert for two years from the age of 10 months.
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Price: £42.00

Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University: 1927

Seller ID: 65348

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 284pp, in original paper wrappers and then bound in grey cloth with gilt titling, ex college library, a few stamps but very clean indeed, VG.

The Fiske Icelandic Collection is one of the three largest collections on Icelandic literature and civilization. Daniel Willard Fiske, 1831-1904, was a professor at Cornell University, New York, and became their first librarian. An accomplished linguist and an inveterate book collector he began building his Icelandic library while still a young student. He bequeathed the collection to Cornell and it came to the University Library in 1905. The collection has quadrupled in size during its first century at Cornell, and the acquisition program is still active today. Halldór Hermannsson, became fi...
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Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske.

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press: 1960

Seller ID: 70020

Binding: paperback

Condition: xi, 755pp, in original paper wrappers, spine edges worn and a little delicate, repair tape marks to front and rear cover, internally very clean indeed, Fair. Reissue of the 1914 First Edition.

Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske. Additions 1913-26

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University: 1960

Seller ID: 70034

Binding: hardcover

Condition: ix, 284pp, original paper wrappers, owner's initials, VG.

Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske. Additions 1927-42