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Price: £26.00
Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2003
Edition: 2003 First Edition
Seller ID: 65144
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 Larsen’s 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 th... View more info
By: Laing John
Price: £85.00
Publisher: K Book Editions: 1973
Edition: 1973 reprint
Seller ID: 63506
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'. View more info
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Pimlico: 2002
Edition: 2002 Second Impression
Seller ID: 62692
The story of Scott's Northern Party. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Pimlico: 2002
Edition: 2002 First Edition
Seller ID: 64287
By: Langley Michael
Price: £6.00
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co: 1971
Edition: 1971 First Edition
Seller ID: 59763
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. View more info
By: Langone John
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company: 1977
Edition: 1977 U.S Edition Second Printing
Seller ID: 64065
The lives of the serviceman, scientists and civilians, who work in Antartica. View more info
By: Lansing Alfred
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Pheonix Press: 2001
Edition: 2001 rep
Seller ID: 40535
An attractive reprint of THE polar classic, covering the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by of Sir Ernest Shackleton. View more info
By: Lansing Alfred
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Reader's Union: 1961
Edition: 1961 Edition
Seller ID: 62392
The order to abandon ship was given at 5 p.m. With these words Alfred Lansing begins his amazing account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1915. View more info
By: Lansing Alfred
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Ted Smart: 2000
Edition: 2000 rep
Seller ID: 67256
An attractive reprint of THE polar classic, covering the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by of Sir Ernest Shackleton. View more info
By: Larsen Egon
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Phoenix House Ltd: 1959
Edition: 1959 First Edition
Seller ID: 64654
Living Biographies for young people. View more info
By: Laseron Charles & Hurley Frank
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Birlinn: 2002
Edition: 2002 rep
Seller ID: 62622
Shackleton's Argonauts by Frank Hurley, South With Mawson by Charles F. Laserson with introduction by Tim Bowden View more info
By: Lauritzen Per Roger & Ryvarden Leif
Price: £180.00
Publisher: Gyldendal: 2003
Edition: 2003
Seller ID: 66533
A lovely set of this beautifully illustrated and scarce title. View more info
By: Laws Richard
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Boxtree/Anglia TV: 1989
Edition: 1989 First Edition
Seller ID: 64281
This book written by Dr. Richard Laws and with breathtaking pictures from the Anglia TV series. View more info
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1988
Edition: 1988 First Edition
Seller ID: 67525
Studies in Polar Research. View more info
By: Lewin W. Henry
Price: £310.00
Publisher: C W Daniel Company Ltd: 1935
Edition: 1935 First Edition
Seller ID: 61739
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. View more info
By: Lewin W. Henry
Price: £340.00
Publisher: C W Daniel Company Ltd: 1935
Edition: 1935 First Edition
Seller ID: 65391
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. View more info
By: Lewis David
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Collins: 1975
Edition: 1975 First Edition
Seller ID: 43958
Ice Bird is not only the account of one of the greatest small-boat journeys of all time. It is also a story of human endurance, a testimony of man's will to overcome almost anything and everything to stay alive. View more info
By: Lewis David
Price: £4.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & C0: 1976
Edition: 1976 US Edition
Seller ID: 62725
Ice Bird is not only the account of one of the greatest small-boat journeys of all time. It is also a story of human endurance, a testimony of man's will to overcome almost anything and everything to stay alive. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1987
Edition: 1987 First Edition
Seller ID: 38908
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1987
Edition: 1987 First Edition
Seller ID: 64063
By: Lewis Richard S.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1965
Edition: 1965 First Edition
Seller ID: 33990
Foreword by Dr Thomas O. Jones. The first definitive history of the world's last land frontier. View more info
By: Lewis Richard S.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1965
Edition: 1965 First Edition
Seller ID: 64040
Foreword by Dr Thomas O. Jones. The first definitive history of the world's last land frontier. View more info
By: Lillie Harry R.
Price: £28.00
Publisher: Ernest Benn: 1955
Edition: 1955 First Edition
Seller ID: 52702
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. View more info
By: Lillie Harry R.
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Ernest Benn: 1955
Edition: 1955 First Edition
Seller ID: 44541
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. View more info
By: Lindsay Martin
Price: £38.00
Publisher: Falcon Press: 1946
Edition: 1946 First Edition
Seller ID: 57258
The story of three men who made a record Arctic journey of 1,200 miles, discovering 250 miles of new mountains, eventually reached the coast after 103 days' sledging, with two and a half days food in hand. View more info
By: Lindsay Martin
Price: £38.00
Publisher: Falcon Press: 1946
Edition: 1946 First Edition
Seller ID: 56827
The story of three men who made a record Arctic journey of 1,200 miles, discovering 250 miles of new mountains, eventually reached the coast after 103 days' sledging, with two and a half days food in hand. View more info
By: Lindsay Martin
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Penguin: 1939
Edition: 1939 First Edition
Seller ID: 62150
Account of an expedition privately organised by the author to make the first survey of the western edge of the Crown Prince Frederiks and Prince of Wales Mountain between Scoresby Sound and Mount Forel, on East Greenland, using an approach from the west by means of a sledge journey from the Diko Bay region across the icecap. View more info
By: Lister Hal
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Indent Pre-Print: 2005
Edition: 2005 First Edition
Seller ID: 61360
Expeditions in a cool environment near the ground. With beautiful photographs and illustrations. View more info
By: Lister Hal
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Indent Pre-Print: 2005
Edition: 2005 First Edition
Seller ID: 61363
Expeditions in a cool environment near the ground. With beautiful photographs and illustrations. View more info
By: Lister Hal
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Indent Pre-Print: 2005
Edition: 2005 First Edition
Seller ID: 61369
Expeditions in a cool environment near the ground. With beautiful photographs and illustrations. View more info
By: Lister R P
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Travel Book Club: 1965
Edition: 1965 rep
Seller ID: 62134
Lister's journey took two months and eighteen hundred miles of arduous travel across the varied reaches of Lapland. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Odhams Press Ltf: 1951
Edition: 1951 First Edition
Seller ID: 57462
The epic voyage of the polar ship John Biscoe to rescue eleven men trapped by Antartic ice. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Jarrolds: 1963
Edition: 1963 First Edition
Seller ID: 64195
By: Lizotte Michael P., Arrigo Kevin R. [editors]
Price: £38.00
Publisher: American Geophysical Union: 1998
Edition: 1998 US First Edition
Seller ID: 66630
By: Lockett Andrew, Munro Neil, Wells David [Editors]
Price: £150.00
Publisher: Ministry of Defence: 1983
Edition: 1983 First Edition
Seller ID: 58421
This book was written as a record for those men who have served on HMS Endurance and have shared the privilege of visiting the most amazing continent in the world. They have sacrificed many months away from their families to show the flag for the United Kingdom, bring reassurance to the Falkland Islands, and contribute to the difficukt scientific work amidst the ice and loneliness of the Antarctic. View more info
By: Lopez Barry
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Picador/Pan Books: 1987
Edition: 1987 rep
Seller ID: 62127
By: Love John A
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Whittet Books: 1994
Edition: 1994 First Edition
Seller ID: 38904
By: Lowe George & Lewis-Jones Huw
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Thames & Hudson: 2014
Edition: 2014 First Edition
Seller ID: 65421
The Crossing Of Antarctica is a remarkable visual and personal testimony of a polar expedition that rewrote the history books and an epic journey of endurance and fellowship in the wildest of places. 154 Illustrations. View more info
By: Lucas Jeremy
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape: 1981
Edition: 1981 First Edition
Seller ID: 64192
By: Lucas Mike
Price: £8.00
Publisher: New Holland Publishers: 1996
Edition: 1996 First Edition
Seller ID: 64024
Superbly illustrated. View more info
By: Ludecke Cornelia & Summerhayes Colin
Price: £26.00
Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press: 2012
Edition: 2012 First Edition
Seller ID: 65157
The origins of the Third German Antarctic Expedition lie in a combination of the aspirations of German scientists to contribute to exploring and understanding the Antarctic environ¬ment, and the Nazi Party's drive for self-sufficiency on the road to war. In 1936/37 Germany had joined the whaling nations in the South Atlantic, keen to obtain whale oil without having to use valuable foreign currency reserves needed for rearmament. Considering that it needed a local whalin... View more info
Price: £39.00
Publisher: The Traveller's Bookshop: 2001
Edition: 2001 First Edition
Seller ID: 63872
The Taurus collection is one the pre-eminent private collections of books on the Antarctic. The collection encompasses the major works of exploration by people who actually went to the continent in the Golden Age, which ended with the outbreak of the Second World War. The items are supplied with collations, notes and illustrations, making this a work of great value not only to collectors and dealers but also to those interested in the history of Antarctic Exploration. View more info
Price: £39.00
Publisher: The Traveller's Bookshop: 2001
Edition: 2001 First Edition
Seller ID: 63874
The Taurus collection is one the pre-eminent private collections of books on the Antarctic. The collection encompasses the major works of exploration by people who actually went to the continent in the Golden Age, which ended with the outbreak of the Second World War. The items are supplied with collations, notes and illustrations, making this a work of great value not only to collectors and dealers but also to those interested in the history of Antarctic Exploration. View more info
Price: £39.00
Publisher: The Traveller's Bookshop: 2001
Edition: 2001 First Edition
Seller ID: 63875
The Taurus collection is one the pre-eminent private collections of books on the Antarctic. The collection encompasses the major works of exploration by people who actually went to the continent in the Golden Age, which ended with the outbreak of the Second World War. The items are supplied with collations, notes and illustrations, making this a work of great value not only to collectors and dealers but also to those interested in the history of Antarctic Exploration. View more info
By: MacMillan Miriam
Price: £7.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1951
Edition: 1951
Seller ID: 45070
By: Magnolia L. R.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: The Whaling Museum, Long Island: 1977
Edition: 1977 First US Edition
Seller ID: 57430
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Snaebjorn Jonsson & Co: 1984
Edition: 1984 Second Impression
Seller ID: 58316
By: Malaurie Jean
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Johnathan Cape: 1982
Edition: 1982 rep
Seller ID: 62452
The polar Eskimos in Greenland as they face their destiny View more info
By: Manning Mrs. Tom
Price: £23.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1943
Edition: 1943 First Edition
Seller ID: 54194
Mrs. Manning went to Baffinland to join her husband Tom. View more info
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Peter Owen: 1977
Edition: 1977 First Edition
Seller ID: 50616
A study of the Penguin in its natural habitat, the frozen waters and barren beaches of the Far South. View more info
