Category: Polar

South Georgia. Gateway To Antarctica.

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press : 2003

Seller ID: 65149

ISBN-13: 9781852970758

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 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 then, in 1929, to travel around South Georgia and film the wildlife. He spent a summer camped in various parts of the island, exp...
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South Georgia. Gateway To Antarctica.

By: Kohl-Larsen Ludwig

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press : 2003

Seller ID: 65148

ISBN-13: 9781852970758

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 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 then, in 1929, to travel around South Georgia and film the wildlife. He spent a summer camped in various parts of the island, exp...
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South Georgia. Gateway To Antarctica.

By: Kohl-Larsen Ludwig

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press : 2003

Seller ID: 65150

ISBN-13: 9781852970758

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 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 then, in 1929, to travel around South Georgia and film the wildlife. He spent a summer camped in various parts of the island, exp...
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The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the Hansa in the Ice

By: Koldewey Captain

Price: £380.00

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 tigh

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

By: Koldewey Captain

Price: £480.00

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

Seller ID: 66622

Binding: hardcover

Condition: viii, 590pp, numerous woodcut illusts, 4 coloured, 2 maps, original decorative green cloth with bevelled edges, professionally recased with new spine and original laid on, some wear to extremities, even fading to cloth, very clean internally, VG. A stron

Greenland, its Nature, Inhabitants and History

By: Krabbe, Thomas Neergaard

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Levin & Munksgaard, Humphrey Milford : 1930

Seller ID: 72177

Binding: paperback

Condition: xvi, 129pp, 170 plates, 50 portraits, folding map, large paperback, new brown cloth spine, some old sellotape marks to spine area, professionally refurbished so a nice strong copy, VG. Text in Danish and English. A scarce title.

Superbly illustrated with images taken by the Danish physician and photographer Krabbe.
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The Fifth Man. The Life of H.R. Bowers

By: Lagerbom C.H.

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Caedmon Of Whitby : 1999

Seller ID: 74067

ISBN-13: 9780905355511

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 239pp, VG+ in VG+ dw. Now scarce.

Henry Bowers was the fifth man in Scott's South Pole expedition party.
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The Fifth Man. The Life of H.R. Bowers

By: Lagerbom C.H.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Caedmon Of Whitby : 1999

Seller ID: 74068

ISBN-13: 9780905355511

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 239pp, VG in VG dw. Now scarce.

Henry Bowers was the fifth man in Scott's South Pole expedition party.
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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: £72.00

Publisher: K Book Editions : 1973

Seller ID: 63506

ISBN-13: 9780859630092

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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Endurance Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Lansing Alfred

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Reader's Union : 1961

Seller ID: 73791

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 269pp, VG in Good+ dw with some foxing.

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.
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Antarctica The Last Frontier

By: Laws Richard

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Boxtree Ltd : 1991

Seller ID: 41077

ISBN-13: 9781852831349

Binding: paperback

Condition: 208pp, paperback, VG.

Superbly illustrated.
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The Sir John Barrow Monument. The Story of Hoad 1848-1859.

By: Layfield Jack

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Handstand Press : 2005

Seller ID: 73353

ISBN-13: 9780955200908

Binding: paperback

Condition: 80pp, paperback, private bookplate, VG+

The Barrow Monument on Hoad Hill, is Ulverston's landmark. The booklet tells the eventful story of its construction.
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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-13: 9780521242714

Binding: hardcover

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

Studies in Polar Research.
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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: 53112

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 300pp, well illustrated with maps, photographs and charts, Good in Good price clipped dw which has been extensively repaired.

Foreword by Dr Thomas O. Jones. The first definitive history of the world's last land frontier.
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Face to Face. Polar Portraits.

By: Lewis-Jones Huw

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Scott Polar Research Institute : 2008

Seller ID: 74652

ISBN-13: 9780901021083

Binding: paperback

Condition: 286pp, softback, New.

Portraits of polar explorers from the collections held by the Scott Polar Institure, University of Cambridge.
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Face to Face. Polar Portraits.

By: Lewis-Jones Huw

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Scott Polar Research Institute : 2008

Seller ID: 74653

ISBN-13: 9780901021083

Binding: paperback

Condition: 286pp, softback, New.

Portraits of polar explorers from the collections held by the Scott Polar Institure, University of Cambridge.
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Face to Face. Polar Portraits.

By: Lewis-Jones Huw

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Scott Polar Research Institute : 2008

Seller ID: 74654

ISBN-13: 9780901021083

Binding: paperback

Condition: 286pp, softback, New.

Portraits of polar explorers from the collections held by the Scott Polar Institure, University of Cambridge.
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The Poles

By: Ley Willy

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Time Life International : 1963

Seller ID: 41099

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, pictorial boards, VG-.

The Life Nature Library series.
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A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora

By: Lindsay David Moore

Price: £49.00

Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. : 1911

Seller ID: 70344

Binding: hardcover

Condition: ix, 223pp, 72 illusts, original green pictorial cloth, exlibrary, some fading and marks to boards, t.e.g., new endpapers, internally clean, Good.

Ice - High And Low

By: Lister Hal

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Indent Pre-Print : 2005

Seller ID: 61365

Binding: paperback

Condition: 263pp, paperback, New.

Expeditions in a cool environment near the ground. With beautiful photographs and illustrations.
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Ice - High And Low

By: Lister Hal

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Indent Pre-Print : 2005

Seller ID: 61360

Binding: paperback

Condition: 263pp, paperback, New.

Expeditions in a cool environment near the ground. With beautiful photographs and illustrations.
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Arctic Exploration

By: Liversidge Douglas

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Franklin Watts : 1971

Seller ID: 73807

ISBN: 851661513

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 88pp, Fine in VG dw with sunning to spine area. A scarce title.

A history of arctic exploration illustrated with photographs.
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The Last Continent

By: Liversidge Douglas

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Travel Book Club : 1958

Seller ID: 57257

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 248pp, original red cloth, owner's name stamp, light foxing to endpapers and foreedges, slight sunning to spine, VG-.

Arctic Dreams. Imagination And Desire In A Northern Landscape.

By: Lopez Barry

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Harvill Press : 1999

Seller ID: 70670

ISBN-13: 9781860465833

Binding: paperback

Condition: 464pp, paperback, inscr, VG+

A celebration of the Arctic landscape itself - of earth and sea and ice. It's also a book dreams, about why people have gone to the Arctic and what they have found.
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Arctic Dreams. Imagination And Desire In A Northern Landscape.

By: Lopez Barry

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Picador/Pan Books : 1987

Seller ID: 70827

ISBN-13: 9780330295383

Binding: paperback

Condition: 464pp, paperback, VG

Arctic Dreams. Imagination And Desire In A Northern Landscape.

By: Lopez Barry

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Harvill Press : 1986

Seller ID: 73794

ISBN-13: 9781860465833

Binding: paperback

Condition: 464pp, paperback, VG+

A celebration of the Arctic landscape itself - of earth and sea and ice. It's also a book dreams, about why people have gone to the Arctic and what they have found.
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Penguins

By: Love John A

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Whittet Books : 1994

Seller ID: 38904

Binding: paperback

Condition: 128pp, paperback, VG+

Captain Cook's Three Voyages Round the World. Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books

By: Low, Lieutenant Charles R.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons : no date

Seller ID: 72566

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 512pp, original green cloth, numerous pages evenly browned, title page loosening, Good. No illustrations in this edition.

Captain Scott. The Full Story

By: Ludlam Harry

Price: £7.00

Publisher: W. Foulsham & Co Ltd : 1965

Seller ID: 67874

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 239pp, ex institution library, minor sellotape marks to boards, front endpaper removed, Good+ in Good+ dw

Early biography giving the full dramatic story of the life and expeditions of Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
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Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766. His Diary, Manuscripts and Collections.

By: Lysaght A. M.

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber : 1971

Seller ID: 57484

ISBN-13: 9780571093519

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 512pp, original brown cloth, two private bookplates, near Fine in VG+ price clipped dw.

Joseph Banks is generally known as a wealthy young naturalist who sailed with Captain Cook on his first voyage round the world. Bank?s earlier voyage to Newfoundland and Labrador in the Niger in 1766 is less familiar. This volume contains his dairy of that voyage, his scientific manuscripts and a detailed account of his collections.
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The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions

By: M'Clintock, Capt R. N.

Price: £295.00

Publisher: John Murray : 1859

Seller ID: 72799

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxvii, 403pp, illusts, folding maps, original decorative blue cloth, professionally recased, light wear to extremities, light foxing to prelims, VG.

Narrative of Lady Franklin?s final searching expedition under Capt. McClintock, on the Fox, 1857-59, drawn from McClintock?s journal. Record of the voyage to Greenland, the drift in the ice pack from Melville Bay through Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, and subsequent voyage through Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait and wintering at Port Kennedy. Includes accounts of sledge journeys and finding the proof?s of Franklin?s fate, and the exploration of coastlines of Bellot Strait, and McClintock Channel, of Rae Strait thus confirming the completion of the Northwest Passage.
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On Floating Ice. Two Years on an Antarctic Ice-Shelf South of 75°S

By: MacDowall Joseph

Price: £24.00

Publisher: The Pentland Press : 1999

Seller ID: 73777

ISBN-13: 9781858217208

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 314pp, Fine in Fine dw.

The remarkable story of an Antarctic expedition mounted by the Royal Society as the main British contribution to the International Geophysical Year, 1957/58.
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The Honourable Company. A History of The Hudson's Bay Company

By: MacKay Douglas

Price: £26.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart : 1949

Seller ID: 74047

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 397pp, original red cloth, signed on the front endpaper by Ann Savours Shirley, the polar historian, VG in Fair chipped, torn and repaired dw. An important title.

The story of the Hudson's Bay company embraces a wide panorama in time and space which extends from London to the farthest frontiers of the American North and West, from the days of Prince Rupert to the present time.
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The Honourable Company. A History of The Hudson's Bay Company

By: MacKay Douglas

Price: £44.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart : 1936

Seller ID: 74048

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 396pp, original black cloth with gilt, Canadian postage stamp tipped to publishing page, VG in Good+ price clipped dw with edge wear and tear repaired. An important title.

The story of the Hudson's Bay company embraces a wide panorama in time and space which extends from London to the farthest frontiers of the American North and West, from the days of Prince Rupert to the present time.
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The 'Taurus' Collection. 150 Collectable Books on the Antarctic. A Bibliography.

By: Mackenzie Julian [editor]

Price: £85.00

Publisher: The Traveller's Bookshop : 2001

Seller ID: 70167

ISBN-13: 9781874472520

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 197pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. One of only 500 copies.

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.
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The 'Taurus' Collection. 150 Collectable Books on the Antarctic. A Bibliography.

By: Mackenzie Julian [editor]

Price: £85.00

Publisher: The Traveller's Bookshop : 2001

Seller ID: 70168

ISBN-13: 9781874472520

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 197pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. One of only 500 copies.

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.
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Four Years in the White North

By: MacMillan Donald B.

Price: £28.00

Publisher: The Medici Society : 1925

Seller ID: 72080

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 428pp, 67 illusts, original red cloth with gilt, light wear to extremities, t.e.g., VG-.

Narrative of the Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-17, for exploration and mapping of Crocker Land and other unexplored lands between Axel Heiberg and Parry Islands, and for scientific studies.
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Far North With "Captain Mac"

By: MacMillan Miriam

Price: £7.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1951

Seller ID: 45070

Binding: paperback

Condition: 465-513pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine October, 1951, in green card covers, VG+

Whales, Whaling and Whale Research. A Selected Bibliography.

By: Magnolia L. R.

Price: £9.00

Publisher: The Whaling Museum, Long Island : 1977

Seller ID: 57430

Binding: paperback

Condition: 91pp, paperback, some pages loosening, Good.

Contains 1000 bibliographic references. A useful reference.
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Iceland Saga

By: Magnusson Magnus

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Bodley Head : 1987

Seller ID: 51613

ISBN-13: 9780370310657

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 247pp, exlibrary, Good+ in Good+ dw.

The story of a remarkable country.
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The Last Kings Of Thule

By: Malaurie Jean

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape : 1982

Seller ID: 41248

Binding: paperback

Condition: 415pp, paperback, inscription, extremities rubbed, Good. Uncorrected Prrof copy.

A lively account of daily life of the Inuit of Thule.
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Life of Sir John Franklin and the North-West Passage

By: Markham Captain Albert Hastings

Price: £55.00

Publisher: George Philip & Son : 1891

Seller ID: 51616

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 324pp, original brown cloth with gilt, VG+. An attractive copy.

The World's Great Explorers Series.
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Life of Sir John Franklin and the North-West Passage

By: Markham, Capt Albert Hastings

Price: £32.00

Publisher: George Philip & Son : 1891

Seller ID: 73769

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 324pp, original blue cloth, prize bookplate, slight fading to spine, VG.

The World's Great Explorers Series.
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A Buried Tertiary pluton in East Greenland

By: Matthews David W.

Price: £9.00

Publisher: DGF, Geological Society of Denmark : 1980

Seller ID: 73828

Binding: paperback

Condition: 4pp, paperback, extract from GDF Bulletin, VG.

The discovery of steeply tilted basalts in Watkins Bjerge suggests the presence of a buried pluton. Extract from the Bulletin of the GDF.
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A Buried Tertiary pluton in East Greenland

By: Matthews David W.

Price: £9.00

Publisher: DGF, Geological Society of Denmark : 1980

Seller ID: 73827

Binding: paperback

Condition: 4pp, paperback, extract from GDF Bulletin, VG.

The discovery of steeply tilted basalts in Watkins Bjerge suggests the presence of a buried pluton. Extract from the Bulletin of the GDF.
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Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 under the Leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson: Scientific Reports (Complete Set)

By: Mawson Sir Douglas

Price: £3,750.00

Publisher: Adelaide and Sydney: Government Printers : 1916

Seller ID: 55839

Binding: hardcover

Condition: A fine set in the original publishers paper wrappers. Complete all 91 parts as issued from 1916 to 1947. No prior ownership marks, no library marks, no faults, exactly as issued. It is exceptional to find a set in totally original condition that hasn't b

These voluminous reports were published over many years, from 1916 to 1947. In all, ninety-one separate publications were grouped into three series, made up of twenty two volumes. It is exceedingly rare to find a complete set of the reports. The work emanating from the expedition ranks it as one of the great scientific expeditions of the heroic era. The reports themselves were attractively prepared, with photographs and charts of high quality. Over 4000 pages of text, charts, plates and maps. Series A - Geography, Geology, Glaciology. Volume I. ? Volume V. Series B - Meteorology, Aural Observa...
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Safe Return Doubtful. The Heroic Age of Polar Exploration

By: Maxtone-Graham John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Constable : 2000

Seller ID: 34150

ISBN-13: 9780094803305

Binding: paperback

Condition: 364pp, paperback, VG+

A classic summary of early exploration.
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The Whalers

By: Maynard Dr. Felix & Dumas Alexandre

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co : 1937

Seller ID: 64186

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 414pp, owner's name and address, private blindstamp, wear to extremities, Good+

Fatal Passage. The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin

By: McGoogan Ken

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Bantam Books : 2002

Seller ID: 73799

ISBN-13: 9780553814934

Binding: paperback

Condition: 327pp, paperback, VG+

Rae was denied the recognition he so richly deserved. On returning to London, he faced a campaign of denial and vilification from Lady Jane Franklin and Charles Dickens.
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