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Poster - Hurley On Ship's Rigging

By: Hurley Frank

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Endurance Designs: 2003

Seller ID: 9604

Binding: paperback

Condition: 19.5" x 27" (49.5cm x 68.6cm), high quality poster from Hurley's original photograph taken on Shackleton's Endurance Expedition, a jpeg image can be mailed upon request. Please ask about the other posters available from Hurley's photographs.

Poster - Sir Ernest H. Shackleton

By: Hurley Frank

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Endurance Designs: 2003

Seller ID: 8801

Binding: paperback

Poster - Hurley On Ship's Rigging

By: Hurley Frank

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Endurance Designs: 2003

Seller ID: 8502

Binding: paperback

Poster - Mrs Chippy and Blackborrow

By: Hurley Frank

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Endurance Designs: 2003

Seller ID: 9631

Binding: paperback

Die Schicksalsfahrt der Endurance. Mit Shackleton in die Antarktis

By: Hurley Frank

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag: 2000

Seller ID: 71169

ISBN: 3453174267

Binding: paperback

Condition: 220pp, paperback, Fine.

German edition of Shackleton's Argonauts. Hurley's account of the Endurance expedition.
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South With Shackleton

By: Hussey Dr L.D.A.

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Sampson Low: 1951

Seller ID: 55935

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 182pp, original grey cloth, light edge wear, slight fading to boards, small ink mark to bottom corner of rear board, VG in colour photocopy of original dw

A most scarce title relating Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. Hussey's banjo playing did much to keep up the spirits of the expedition members.
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South With Shackleton

By: Hussey Dr L.D.A.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Sampson Low: 1951

Seller ID: 55433

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 182pp, original grey cloth, owner's signature, VG in colour photocopy of original dw

A most scarce title relating Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. Hussey's playing of his banjo did much to keep up the spirits of the expedition members.
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South With Shackleton

By: Hussey Dr L.D.A.

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Sampson Low: 1951

Seller ID: 55071

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 182pp, original grey cloth, slight sunning to spine and top of front board, rear endpaper has a large tear repaired, VG in colour photocopy of original dw

A most scarce title relating Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. Hussey's playing of his banjo did much to keep up the spirits of the expedition members.
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Scott Of The Antarctic

By: Huxley Elspeth

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1977

Seller ID: 71292

ISBN: 0297774336

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiv, 303pp, original blue cloth, VG, no dustwrapper.

Illustrated biography.
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Northern Vagabond. The Life and Career of J.B. Tyrrell

By: Inglis Alex

Price: £20.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 1978

Seller ID: 32942

ISBN: 0771043570

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 256pp, private library blindstamp to front endpaper, VG+ in Good+ dw.

The man who conquered the Canadian north, last of the great breed of map making explorers, first of the modern mineral finders and technologists.
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Isvik

By: Innes Hammond

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Chapmans Publishers: 1991

Seller ID: 64012

ISBN: 1855920158

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 319pp, VG in Good+ dw with rubbing to edges

An Antarctic based novel.
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The Arctic Whaling Journals Of William Scoresby The Younger. Volume 1. The Voyages of 1811, 1812 And 1813. The Hakluyt Society Third Series, Volume 12

By: Jackson C. Ian [editor]

Price: £19.00

Publisher: The Hakluyt Society: 2003

Seller ID: 53304

ISBN: 0904180824

Binding: hardcover

Condition: lxi, 242pp, Fine in VG+ dw with sunning to spine.

William Scoresby, 1789-1857, made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to Chief Officer. On his twenty first birthday his father relinquished the Resolution to him. Another ten years would see the publication of what has been described as one of the most remarkable books in the English language, hia An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Decsription of the Northern Whale Fishery, 1820.
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Mawson's Remarkable Men. The personal stories of the epic 1911-14 Australaasian Antarctic Expedition

By: Jensen David

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Allen & Unwin: 2015

Seller ID: 71293

ISBN: 1760113336

Binding: paperback

Condition: 184pp, paperback, Fine.

The 32 land based members of the AAE of 1911-14 selected to explore part of the Antarctic continent where no person had set foot before had an average age of just 26. Who were they? Where did they come from?
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Mawson's Remarkable Men. The personal stories of the epic 1911-14 Australaasian Antarctic Expedition

By: Jensen David

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Allen & Unwin: 2015

Seller ID: 71294

ISBN: 1760113336

Binding: paperback

Condition: 184pp, paperback, Fine.

The World Of Ice

By: John Brian

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Orbis Publishing: 1979

Seller ID: 422

Binding: hardcover

Condition: VG in VG- water damaged dw

Sir John Richardson. Arctic Explorer, Natural Historian, Naval Surgeon.

By: Johnson Robert E.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd: 1976

Seller ID: 67305

ISBN: 0850660742

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 209pp, exlibrary, VG- in Good+ dw with tear repaired. An uncommon title.

Sir John Richardson. Arctic Explorer, Natural Historian, Naval Surgeon.

By: Johnson Robert E.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd: 1976

Seller ID: 67301

ISBN: 0850660742

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 209pp, exlibrary, Good+ in Good+ dw. An uncommon title.

The South Polar Trail. The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

By: Joyce Ernest E. Mills

Price: £28.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2017

Seller ID: 65452

ISBN: 1852971223

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 220pp, 61 photographs, hardback, blue cloth, New in dustwrapper. This facsimile edition is limited to only 300 individually numbered copies. An excellent reprint of a very scarce title.

A primary account of the Ross Sea shore party of Shackleton's Endurance Expedition 1914-1917. Their task was to lay dumps to the pole for Shackleton's southern party. This less told story from the expedition is equally harrowing, an incredible story.
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The South Polar Trail. The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

By: Joyce Ernest E. Mills

Price: £28.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2017

Seller ID: 65453

ISBN: 1852971223

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 220pp, 61 photographs, hardback, blue cloth, New in dustwrapper. This facsimile edition is limited to only 300 individually numbered copies. An excellent reprint of a very scarce title.

The South Polar Trail. The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

By: Joyce Ernest E. Mills

Price: £28.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2017

Seller ID: 65445

ISBN: 1852971223

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 220pp, 61 photographs, hardback, blue cloth, New in dustwrapper. This facsimile edition is limited to only 300 individually numbered copies. An excellent reprint of a very scarce title.

The South Polar Trail. The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

By: Joyce Ernest Mills

Price: £360.00

Publisher: Duckworth: 1929

Seller ID: 55066

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 220pp, 61 photographs, original blue boards, new endpapers, bump to bottom corners, wear to extremities, Good+ in colour photocopy of original dw.

The Conquest of the Poles and Modern Adventures in the World of Ice.

By: Judd Alfred

Price: £10.00

Publisher: T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd:

Seller ID: 62688

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 364pp, 17 plates, 2 maps, original pictorial boards, light foxing to foreedges, foxing to endpapers, VG. An attractive copy.

Arctic Explorations. The Second Grinnell Expedition In Search of Sir John Franklin 1853, 54, 55.

By: Kane Elisha Kent

Price: £14.00

Publisher: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Chicago: 1996

Seller ID: 71176

Binding: hardcover

Condition: lix, 447pp, original black cloth, Fine. No.94 of The Lakside Classics series.

The search for the Second Grinnell Expedition is a story that celebrates endurance, one of our great narratives of survival.
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The Silent Continent.

By: Kearns William H. & Britton Beverley

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd: 1955

Seller ID: 69522

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 237pp, original red cloth, bumping to corners and head and tail of spine, VG-, no dustwrapper.

True stories of more than thirty Antarctic explorations from thirteen countries, each a true adventure story of the courage, heroism and fortitude of exceptional men.
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A Victim Of The Aurora.

By: Keneally Thomas

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Collins: 1977

Seller ID: 64004

ISBN: 0002224933

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 222pp, foxing to foreedges, slight sunning to head of boards, VG in VG dw

A detective story.
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The Wicked Mate. The Antarctic Diary Of Victor Campbell.

By: King H.G.R. [editor]

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books/ Erskine Press: 2001

Seller ID: 63433

ISBN: 1852970715

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

In 1910 Scott sent six men, the Northern Party, under the command of Lieutenant Victor Campbell, to explore along the coast of King Edward VII Land. After a successful 10 months at Cape Adare they moved to Inexpressible island, as stormy and desolate place a place as could be found anywhere on the planet. The failure of the relief ship to collect them at the end of the summer left them marooned with no hut and little food. Campbell kept all the men alive through the winter in a snow cave, 12ft by 9ft. After the winter, Campbell led the men 230 miles back to Cape Evans, only to learn of the dea...
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The Wicked Mate. The Antarctic Diary Of Victor Campbell.

By: King H.G.R. [editor]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books/ Erskine Press: 2001

Seller ID: 69511

ISBN: 1852970715

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, Fine in Fine dw.

The Wicked Mate. The Antarctic Diary Of Victor Campbell.

By: King H.G.R. [editor]

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books/ Erskine Press: 2001

Seller ID: 63435

ISBN: 1852970715

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

The Wicked Mate. The Antarctic Diary Of Victor Campbell.

By: King H.G.R. [editor]

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books/ Erskine Press: 2001

Seller ID: 71475

ISBN: 1852970715

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

The Crossing. Sir Vivian Fuchs, Sir Edmund Hillary and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58

By: Knight John

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Amberley Publishing: 2018

Seller ID: 70409

ISBN: 1445686295

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 288pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

The Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1953-58 organised and led by Sir Vivian Fuchs and supported by Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the most extraordinary exploits ever undertaken in Antarctica - but it has been underappreciated. On the sixtieth anniversary of the crossing, this book tells the complete story of this remarkable episode in the history of exploration. The Crossing is illustrated with photographs from the Royal Geographical Society, with the kind permission of Mary Lowe, widow of expedition photographer George Lowe, and from Peter and Sarah Hillary and the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
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Gennem Den Hvide Orken. Den danske Forskningsrejse tvaersover Nordgronland 1912-13

By: Koch J. P.

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag: 1913

Seller ID: 68716

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiv, 286pp, original pictorial boards, professionally recased with new spine and original laid on, slight lean, VG. Text in Norwegian. Well illustrated.

Narrative of the Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land and across northern Greenland, 1912-13, under J. P. Koch, to make glaciological and meteorological investigations on the inland ice and its border region. An account of the transportation of supplies by motor boat, barge and pack horse from Denmark Harbour to Borg Fiord, the wintering in its vicinity near Storstrommen Glacier and horse and sledge journey across Greenland to Proven on the west coast.
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South Georgia. Gateway To Antarctica.

By: Kohl-Larsen Ludwig

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2003

Seller ID: 71484

ISBN: 1852970758

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 294pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

South Georgia had been the gateway to the Antarctic for many of the early expeditions to the continent. Ludwig Kohl-Larsen first visited the island in 1911 as a doctor on the Otto Nordenskjold expedition. Seeing South Georgia kindled in him an enthusiasm for returning to the Antarctic. He married Captain Larsens daughter and used his close connection with the Larsen family to return, firstly in 1924 on board the first whaling factory ship (Sir James Clark Ross) and then, in 1929, to travel around South Georgia and film the wildlife. He spent a summer camped in various parts of the island, expl...
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South Georgia. Gateway To Antarctica.

By: Kohl-Larsen Ludwig

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2003

Seller ID: 71483

ISBN: 1852970758

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 294pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

South Georgia. Gateway To Antarctica.

By: Kohl-Larsen Ludwig

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2003

Seller ID: 71482

ISBN: 1852970758

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 294pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the Hansa in the Ice

By: Koldewey Captain

Price: £475.00

Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle: 1874

Seller ID: 66634

Binding: hardcover

Condition: viii, 590pp, numerous woodcut illusts, 4 coloured, 2 maps, new green cloth binding with original spine laid on and original ship illustration retained to front board, some pages dusty and occasional light foxing, a few foreedges ragged, VG. A strong tight copy.

An Account of a Voyage To Spitzbergen; Containing A Full Description Of That Country, Of The Zoology Of The North, And Of The Shetland Isles; with an Account of the Whale Fishery.

By: Laing John

Price: £78.00

Publisher: K Book Editions: 1973

Seller ID: 63506

ISBN: 0859630099

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 173pp, blue cloth, exlibrary, number to spine, a couple of small ink stamps but very clean internally, slight lean to spine, new endpapers, Good+ in VG- dw with scuffing to spine due to label removal. A facsimile of the 1815 First Edition.

Results of the author's voyages in the Greenland Sea as ship surgeon on whalers in 1806-7. Appendix contains an historical account of whale fisheries; important observations on variation of the compass; extracts from Mr Scoresby's paper on 'Polar Ice'.
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When The Pole Star Shone. A History Of Exploration.

By: Langley Michael

Price: £6.00

Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co: 1971

Seller ID: 59763

ISBN: 0245506683

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 176pp, VG in VG dw.

A summary of geographical exploration since ancient times. Includes the development of navigational and surveying aids and instruments from the days when the Polynesians relied on bird migration.
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ANARE. Australia's Antarctic Outposts.

By: Law Philip And Bechervaise John

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1957

Seller ID: 52697

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 152pp, original blue cloth, map endpapers, some spotting to last few pages, Good+ in VG dw

A record of the life and work of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions.
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Antarctica. The Last Frontier.

By: Laws Richard

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Boxtree/Anglia TV: 1989

Seller ID: 64281

ISBN: 1852832479

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 208pp, map endpapers, Fine in near Fine dw.

Breathtaking pictures from the Anglia TV series.
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Mountaineering in the Land of The Midnight Sun

By: Le Blond Mrs. Aubrey

Price: £250.00

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin: 1908

Seller ID: 65662

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 304pp, 71 illusts, original decorative boards, t.e.g., light sunning to spine, wear to head and tail of spine, some foxing, near VG.

First ascents in the Lyngen Peninsula.
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Mountaineering in the Land of The Midnight Sun

By: Le Blond Mrs. Aubrey

Price: £230.00

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin: 1908

Seller ID: 71215

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 304pp, 71 illusts, original pictorial green boards, foxing to spine and front board, foxing to endpapers and foreedges but otherwise very clean, a secure tight copy, Good++. Still an attractive copy.

First ascents in the Lyngen Peninsula.
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Reindeer on South Georgia. The ecology of an introduced population.

By: Leader-Williams N.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1988

Seller ID: 67525

ISBN: 0521242711

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 319pp, pictorial boards, exlibrary, usual stamps but very clean internally, Good+.

Studies in Polar Research.
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The Great North Pole Fraud

By: Lewin W. Henry

Price: £260.00

Publisher: C W Daniel Company Ltd: 1935

Seller ID: 61739

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, original orange cloth, some fading and soiling to boards, heavy wear to edge of boards, Good in colour photocopy of original dw. A very scarce book indeed.

Lewin published a journal annually, the Individualist, which during its 23 years of issue, ending in 1930, was largely responsible for a more or less continuous anti-Peary publicity. He attempts to convince any unbiassed person that Peary never reached the North Pole at all.
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The Great North Pole Fraud

By: Lewin W. Henry

Price: £275.00

Publisher: C W Daniel Company Ltd: 1935

Seller ID: 65391

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, original orange cloth, sunning to spine, some damp fading to leading edge of boards, private bookplate, some browning to pages as is usual, Good+ in colour photocopy of original dw. A very scarce title indeed.

Icebound In Antarctica

By: Lewis David & George Mimi

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1987

Seller ID: 38908

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 242pp, VG+ in VG+ dw

Icebound In Antarctica

By: Lewis David & George Mimi

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1987

Seller ID: 64063

ISBN: 0436245892

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 242pp, private bookplate, VG+ in VG+ dw.

The Life and Work of the Rev. E. J. Peck Among The Eskimos.

By: Lewis Rev. Arthur

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1905

Seller ID: 56092

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvi, 349pp, original decorative blue cloth, front endpaper lacking, light wear to extremities, VG-.

A Continent For Science. The Antarctic Adventure

By: Lewis Richard S.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1965

Seller ID: 64040

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 300pp, well illustrated with maps, photographs and charts, foxing to foreedges, VG in VG dw

Foreword by Dr Thomas O. Jones. The first definitive history of the world's last land frontier.
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Siberian Arctic. The Story of the Siberian Company.

By: Lied Jonas

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Methuen & Co Ltd: 1960

Seller ID: 57579

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 217pp, folding map, VG+ in Good+ dw.

The exploration and development of the Kara Sea route.
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The Path Through Penguin City

By: Lillie Harry R.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Ernest Benn: 1955

Seller ID: 44541

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 302pp, illusts, maps, original blue cloth, fading and mark to spine, Good in colour photocopy of original dw.

Dr. Lillie went to the Antarctic as surgeon to a whaling fleet. This is the story of why he went and what he saw. He was appalled by the cruelty and it began a life long crusade. Furthermore Lillie's descriptions of the wild life of the ocean are as fascinating as they are instructive.
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