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By: Langone John
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company: 1977
Edition: 1977 U.S Edition Second Printing
Seller ID: 64065
Condition: 262pp, VG+ in VG dw
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
ISBN: 1842121375
Condition: 277pp, softback, VG+ copy
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: £18.00
Publisher: Ted Smart: 2000
Edition: 2000 rep
Seller ID: 67256
Condition: 277pp, pictorial boards, F in F dw. Superbly illustrated.
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
Condition: 110pp, exlibrary, usual markings, a reading copy in dustwrapper
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
ISBN: 1841582204
Condition: 292pp, paperback, VG+
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: £165.00
Publisher: Gyldendal: 2003
Edition: 2003
Seller ID: 66533
ISBN: 8205271933
Condition: 231pp, Fine in Fine dw.
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
ISBN: 1852832479
Condition: 208pp, map endpapers, Fine in near Fine dw.
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
ISBN: 0521242711
Condition: 319pp, pictorial boards, exlibrary, usual stamps but very clean internally, Good+.
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
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. View more info
By: Lewin W. Henry
Price: £325.00
Publisher: C W Daniel Company Ltd: 1935
Edition: 1935 First Edition
Seller ID: 65391
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.
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: £4.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & C0: 1976
Edition: 1976 US Edition
Seller ID: 62725
ISBN: 0393031853
Condition: 223pp, map endpapers, VG+
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
Condition: 242pp, VG+ in VG+ dw
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1987
Edition: 1987 First Edition
Seller ID: 64063
ISBN: 0436245892
Condition: 242pp, private bookplate, VG+ in VG+ dw.
By: Lewis Richard S.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1965
Edition: 1965 First Edition
Seller ID: 33990
Condition: 300pp, well illustrated with maps, photographs and charts, Fine in Fine dw
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
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. View more info
By: Lillie Harry R.
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Ernest Benn: 1955
Edition: 1955 First Edition
Seller ID: 44541
Condition: 302pp, illusts, maps, 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. View more info
By: Lindsay Martin
Price: £38.00
Publisher: Falcon Press: 1946
Edition: 1946 First Edition
Seller ID: 56827
Condition: 262pp, inscr, owner's signature, small owner's label, VG in VG price clipped dw.
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
Condition: 247pp, paperback, darkening to spine, yellowing to edges, small split to top and bottom of spine, Poor
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
Condition: 263pp, paperback, New.
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: 61368
Condition: 263pp, paperback, New.
Expeditions in a cool environment near the ground. With beautiful photographs and illustrations. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Odhams Press Ltf: 1951
Edition: 1951 First Edition
Seller ID: 57462
Condition: 255pp, front endpaper lacking, sunning to head and tail of spine, Good in complete but worn dw.
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
Condition: 191pp, foxing to foreedges, VG in VG dw with a little soiling to rear.
By: Lizotte Michael P., Arrigo Kevin R. [editors]
Price: £38.00
Publisher: American Geophysical Union: 1998
Edition: 1998 US First Edition
Seller ID: 66630
ISBN: 0875909019
Condition: 198pp, pictorial boards, ex University library but very clean indeed, VG.
By: Lopez Barry
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Picador/Pan Books: 1987
Edition: 1987 rep
Seller ID: 57622
ISBN: 0330295381
Condition: 464pp, paperback, Good+
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. View more info
By: Love John A
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Whittet Books: 1994
Edition: 1994 First Edition
Seller ID: 38904
Condition: 128pp, paperback, VG+
By: Lowe George & Lewis-Jones Huw
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Thames & Hudson: 2014
Edition: 2014 First Edition
Seller ID: 65421
ISBN: 0500252025
Condition: 239pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.
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: Lowe George & Lewis-Jones Huw
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Thames & Hudson: 2014
Edition: 2014 First Edition
Seller ID: 68753
ISBN: 0500252025
Condition: 239pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.
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: Lowe George & Lewis-Jones Huw
Price: £19.00
Publisher: Thames & Hudson: 2014
Edition: 2014 First Edition
Seller ID: 68754
ISBN: 0500252025
Condition: 239pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.
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
ISBN: 022401921X
Condition: 172pp, map endpapers, VG+ in VG+ dw.
By: Lucas Mike
Price: £8.00
Publisher: New Holland Publishers: 1996
Edition: 1996 First Edition
Seller ID: 64024
ISBN: 185368743X
Condition: 155pp, light spotting to very bottom of two pages, VG in VG+ dw
Superbly illustrated. View more info
Price: £39.00
Publisher: The Traveller's Bookshop: 2001
Edition: 2001 First Edition
Seller ID: 63872
ISBN: 1874472521
Condition: 197pp, paperback, New. A softback version.
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
ISBN: 1874472521
Condition: 197pp, paperback, New. A softback version.
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
ISBN: 1874472521
Condition: 197pp, paperback, New. A softback version.
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
Condition: 465-513pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine October, 1951, in green card covers, VG+
By: Madge Tim
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1995
Edition: 1995 First Edition
Seller ID: 68670
ISBN: 0340584416
Condition: 288pp, VG in VG dw.
Biography of the mountaineer, sailor and explorer. One of the greatest explorers of the twentieth Century. View more info
By: Magnolia L. R.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: The Whaling Museum, Long Island: 1977
Edition: 1977 First US Edition
Seller ID: 57430
Condition: 91pp, paperback, VG+ copy
By: Manning Mrs. Tom
Price: £23.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1943
Edition: 1943 First Edition
Seller ID: 54194
Condition: 232pp, slight lean, sunning to spine, corners a little bumped, a few marks to boards, Good
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
ISBN: 0720605040
Condition: 165pp, VG+ in VG+ dw.
A study of the Penguin in its natural habitat, the frozen waters and barren beaches of the Far South. View more info
Price: £4,400.00
Publisher: Adelaide and Sydney: Government Printers: 1916
Edition: 1916-47 First Edition
Seller ID: 55839
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 been institutionalised in some way. You will not find a better set. Please contact us for additional details, photographs and shipping costs.
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 Obser... View more info
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Patrick Stephens: 1989
Edition: 1989 First Edition
Seller ID: 62099
ISBN: 1852602937
Condition: 364pp, Fine in Fine dw.
A classic summary of early exploration. View more info
By: May John
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley: 1989
Edition: 1989 Revised Edition
Seller ID: 64245
ISBN: 0385262809
Condition: 192pp, VG+ in VG+ dw
A Greenpeace Book. Foreword by Sir Peter Scott. View more info
By: Maynard Dr. Felix & Dumas Alexandre
Price: £14.00
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co: 1937
Edition: 1937 Second Impression
Seller ID: 64186
Condition: 414pp, owner's name and address, private blindstamp, wear to extremities, Good+
By: McDonald T. H.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press: 1966
Edition: 1966 First Edition
Seller ID: 58291
Condition: 133pp, VG+ in VG price clipped dw
Sir Alexander Mackenzie's Journal of a voyage by bark canoe from Lake Athabasca to the Pacific Ocean in the summer of 1789. View more info
By: McGoogan Ken
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 2004
Edition: 2004 First Edition
Seller ID: 62608
ISBN: 055381642X
Condition: 426pp, paperback, Fine copy
Samuel Hearne, the englishman who walked to the Arctic Ocean. View more info
By: McKee Alexander
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Souvenir Press: 1979
Edition: 1979 First Edition
Seller ID: 1771
ISBN: 0285623907
Condition: 326pp, exlib, very few marks, VG in VG dw
Price: £12.00
Publisher: George G.Harrap: 1962
Edition: 1962 First Edition
Seller ID: 64189
Condition: 188pp, light foxing to foreedges, VG+ in VG dw
An account of a typical British expedition to Antarctica. View more info
By: McNab Robert
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Golden Press: 1975
Edition: 1975 Edition
Seller ID: 64193
ISBN: 0855584327
Condition: 508p, VG in VG dw with slight sunning to spine.
A history of New Zealand's wildest days, when French and American ships as well as British scoured the coastline for the highly-prized sperm whale. View more info
By: McNally Robert
Price: £26.00
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company: 1981
Edition: 1981 First US Edition
Seller ID: 64181
ISBN: 0316562920
Condition: 268pp, private bookplate, Fine in VG dw.
A wide ranging and compassionate study of whales, dolphins and porpoises and their involvement with man. View more info
By: McOrist Wilson
Price: £11.00
Publisher: The Robson Press: 2015
Edition: 2015 First Edition
Seller ID: 63813
ISBN: 1849548153
Condition: 362pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.
The heroes in this book are the six men who were in the support party placing food depots for Shackleton's planned crossing of Antarctica in 1915. Their most southerly depot was placed at Mount Hope, 360 miles onto the continent from their base at McMurdo Sound. A new detailed account of this less told but no less epic struggle for survival. View more info
By: McOrist Wilson
Price: £11.00
Publisher: The Robson Press: 2015
Edition: 2015 First Edition
Seller ID: 68748
ISBN: 1849548153
Condition: 362pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.
The heroes in this book are the six men who were in the support party placing food depots for Shackleton's planned crossing of Antarctica in 1915. Their most southerly depot was placed at Mount Hope, 360 miles onto the continent from their base at McMurdo Sound. A new detailed account of this less told but no less epic struggle for survival. View more info
