Category: Polar

The author describes the activities on board the factory ship, and gives a most vivid description of the harpooning of the whales from the whale-catchers.
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Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord. Discovering North-East Greenland

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £49.00

Publisher: Xsirius Books : 2021

Seller ID: 72399

ISBN-13: 9788799455560

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 156pp, hardback, white cloth, New in dustwrapper. One of only 100 Limited Edition copies, each individually numbered and signed by Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen. Text in Danish and English.

The Second book in the 'Discovering North-East Greenland' series. This impressive fjord and its side branches dominates the area between 73 and 74 degrees north on Greenland?s east coast, an area that measures 250km x 100km. Superbly illustrated with colour photographs taken across all the seasons and over many years. Spectacular scenery.
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Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord. Discovering North-East Greenland

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £49.00

Publisher: Xsirius Books : 2021

Seller ID: 72400

ISBN-13: 9788799455560

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 156pp, hardback, white cloth, New in dustwrapper. One of only 100 Limited Edition copies, each individually numbered and signed by Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen. Text in Danish and English.

The Second book in the 'Discovering North-East Greenland' series. This impressive fjord and its side branches dominates the area between 73 and 74 degrees north on Greenland?s east coast, an area that measures 250km x 100km. Superbly illustrated with colour photographs taken across all the seasons and over many years. Spectacular scenery.
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Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord. Discovering North-East Greenland

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £49.00

Publisher: Xsirius Books : 2021

Seller ID: 72403

ISBN-13: 9788799455560

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 156pp, hardback, white cloth, New in dustwrapper. One of only 100 Limited Edition copies, each individually numbered and signed by Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen. Text in Danish and English.

The Second book in the 'Discovering North-East Greenland' series. This impressive fjord and its side branches dominates the area between 73 and 74 degrees north on Greenland?s east coast, an area that measures 250km x 100km. Superbly illustrated with colour photographs taken across all the seasons and over many years. Spectacular scenery.
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Nordost Gronland 1908-60 Fangstmandsperioden

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Aschehoug : 2001

Seller ID: 74126

ISBN-13: 9788711115381

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 423pp, pictorial boards, private bookplate of Ann Savours Shirley, the polar historian, VG+, signed dedication on the title page by Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen to Ann Savours.

A history of the early mainly trapping expeditions to North East Greenland. Well illustrated with photographs of the known trapping huts with location maps. Text in Danish with a summary of 15 pages in English. This book is a revised and enlarged edition of 'Nordostgronland 1908-60 Fangstmandsperioden' published in 1994 by Danish Polar Center.
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One Thousand Days With Sirius. The Greenland Sledge Patrol

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £12.00

Publisher: The Steading Workshop : 2005

Seller ID: 74732

ISBN-13: 9780955077302

Binding: paperback

Condition: 222pp, paperback, New. Translated by David Matthews.

Account of life and work with the Sirius Sledge Patrol in North and Northeast Greenland 1977-1980.
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One Thousand Days With Sirius. The Greenland Sledge Patrol

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £12.00

Publisher: The Steading Workshop : 2005

Seller ID: 74733

ISBN-13: 9780955077302

Binding: paperback

Condition: 222pp, paperback, New. Translated by David Matthews.

Account of life and work with the Sirius Sledge Patrol in North and Northeast Greenland 1977-1980.
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Twin Otter. Flyvning Og Rejser I Gronland.

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Aschehoug Dansk Forlag : 2006

Seller ID: 73814

ISBN-13: 9788711118450

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 329pp, pictorial boards, Fine. Text in Danish.

A beauifully illustrated book highlighting to fantastic role of the Twin Otter in Arctic exploration.
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The Siege Of The South Pole. The Story of Antarctic Exploration

By: Mill Hugh R.

Price: £48.00

Publisher: Alston Rivers Ltd : 1905

Seller ID: 69521

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvi, 455p, original green decorative boards, spine darkened and gilt titling faded, heavy wear to head and tail of spine, front endpaper lacking, light foxing, folding map lacking and replaced with colour photocopy, Fair.

A Classic. The finest overview of Antarctic exploration ever written and an essential reference work, its value not having lessened over time. Mill, who had been librarian of the Royal Geographical Society, melded thirty years of research, reflection, and contact with the most prominent polar people of his day together with his eloquent writing abilities in the production of this important Antarctic bibliographical work.
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The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton

By: Mill Hugh Robert

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Heinemann : 1933

Seller ID: 73377

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xv, 312pp, 20 illusts, 4 maps, original blue cloth, spine faded and marked, boards a little faded and foxed, wear to head and tail of spine, private bookplate, small name label of Albert Smith, Burnley 1933 tipped to front endpaper, foxing to foreedges,

The first comprehensive biography of the great explorer, by the great Antarctic historian. Mill, as librarian of the Royal Geographical Society, became involved with the preparations for Scott?s Discovery expedition. At the request of Scott and Murray he accompanied the expedition as far as Madeira and during the journey he became very good friends with Shackleton. Lady Emily Shackleton approached Mill to write this biography within three months of Shackleton?s death and Mill had her support throughout. The biography received widespread acclaim.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £105.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby : 1999

Seller ID: 56696

ISBN-13: 9780905355481

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiv, 343pp, original red cloth, bump to top corners, VG+ in VG+ dw. The Scarce First Edition, an important work.

A well researched biography. Wild undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £105.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby : 1999

Seller ID: 33780

ISBN-13: 9780905355481

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiv, 343pp, original red cloth, slight bumping to corners, VG+ in VG+ dw, the Scarce First Edition, an important work.

A well researched biography. Wild undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby : 1999

Seller ID: 65398

ISBN-13: 9780905355481

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiv, 343pp, original red cloth, VG+ in VG dw with a little minor creasing. The Scarce First Edition, an important work.

A well researched biography. Wild undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby : 2007

Seller ID: 32710

ISBN-13: 9780905355481

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 343pp, New, pictorial boards no dw issued. Only 200 copies of the reprint were produced.

A well researched biography. Wild undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby : 1999

Seller ID: 74171

ISBN-13: 9780905355481

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiv, 343pp, original red cloth, VG+ in VG dw. The Scarce First Edition, an important work.

A well researched biography. Wild undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Northern Conquest. The Story of Arctic Exploration from Earliest Times to the Present

By: Mirsky Jeannette

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton : 1934

Seller ID: 72819

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xx, 386pp, original green cloth, lacking the folding map, mark to spine otherwise exceptionally clean and bright, Good+.

By Airplane towards the North Pole. An account of an Expedition to Spitzbergen in the Summer of 1923.

By: Mittelholzer Walter

Price: £55.00

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin : 1925

Seller ID: 74039

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 176pp, 48 illustrations, maps, original blue cloth with gilt, light foreedge foxing, a little occasional foxing, VG in colour photocopy of original dw. An attractive copy.

An account of an expedition accessory to Amundsen's attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane. Mittelholzer was a Swiss airman noted for his photographs taken from airplane in the High Alps.
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Arctic Doctor. An Account of Strange Adventures among the Eskimos.

By: Moody Joseph P.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Odhams Press Ltd : 1955

Seller ID: 53090

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 256pp, original green cloth, light sunning to spine and edge of boards, Good, no dustwrapper.

One Man's Gold Rush. A Klondike Album

By: Morgan Murray & Hegg E. A.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: University of Washington Press : 1972

Seller ID: 71366

ISBN-13: 9780295951874

Binding: paperback

Condition: 216pp, large paperback, VG.

Superbly illustrated with photographs by E. A. Hegg, this is a chronicle reflecting the folly and glory of the stampede to the Klondike. Hegg captures the miners at work, miners drunk, miner's womenfolk, miners dead in gunfights, miners in bawdy houses, miners on the trek - reflecting the reality of life of not always an attractive but certainly interesting episode in human history.
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Mertz & I ? The Antarctic Diary of Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis

By: Mornement Allan & Riffenburgh Beau

Price: £32.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2014

Seller ID: 74605

ISBN-13: 9781852971168

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 448pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. Individually numbered, only 400 copies.

On 10 November 1912, the Far Eastern Party, consisting of three men and seventeen dogs set off on a sledging trip. The men were Douglas Mawson, Xavier Mertz and Belgrave Ninnis. Two of these men tragically died, and only the leader, Douglas Mawson, returned after what has been described as the greatest survival story in the history of exploration. It is evident from his diary that the young Ninnis was determined to follow in his father?s steps as a polar explorer. Inside the diary is the story of a young man and his determined and ultimately successful attempt to become a polar explorer. It is...
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Mertz & I ? The Antarctic Diary of Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis

By: Mornement Allan & Riffenburgh Beau

Price: £32.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2014

Seller ID: 74607

ISBN-13: 9781852971168

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 448pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. Individually numbered, only 400 copies.

On 10 November 1912, the Far Eastern Party, consisting of three men and seventeen dogs set off on a sledging trip. The men were Douglas Mawson, Xavier Mertz and Belgrave Ninnis. Two of these men tragically died, and only the leader, Douglas Mawson, returned after what has been described as the greatest survival story in the history of exploration. It is evident from his diary that the young Ninnis was determined to follow in his father?s steps as a polar explorer. Inside the diary is the story of a young man and his determined and ultimately successful attempt to become a polar explorer. It is...
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Mertz & I ? The Antarctic Diary of Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis

By: Mornement Allan & Riffenburgh Beau

Price: £32.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2014

Seller ID: 72643

ISBN-13: 9781852971168

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 448pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. Individually numbered, only 400 copies.

On 10 November 1912, the Far Eastern Party, consisting of three men and seventeen dogs set off on a sledging trip. The men were Douglas Mawson, Xavier Mertz and Belgrave Ninnis. Two of these men tragically died, and only the leader, Douglas Mawson, returned after what has been described as the greatest survival story in the history of exploration. It is evident from his diary that the young Ninnis was determined to follow in his father?s steps as a polar explorer. Inside the diary is the story of a young man and his determined and ultimately successful attempt to become a polar explorer. It is...
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Shackleton's Way. Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer.

By: Morrell Margot and Capparell Stephanie

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing : 2002

Seller ID: 62101

ISBN-13: 9781857882117

Binding: paperback

Condition: 238pp, paperback, Fine.

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton led 27 men, for almost two years, through a harrowing fight for their lives after the wreck of their Antarctic vessel, Endurance, left them stranded on an ice flow 1200 miles from civilization. But every man survived. Every man ascribed it to Shackleton's superb leadership.
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Shackleton's Way. Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer.

By: Morrell Margot and Capparell Stephanie

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing : 2001

Seller ID: 57282

ISBN-13: 9781857882117

Binding: paperback

Condition: 238pp, paperback, Fine.

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton led 27 men, for almost two years, through a harrowing fight for their lives after the wreck of their Antarctic vessel, Endurance, left them stranded on an ice flow 1200 miles from civilization. But every man survived. Every man ascribed it to Shackleton's superb leadership.
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The Whale's Wake

By: Morton Harry

Price: £28.00

Publisher: University of Otago Press : 1982

Seller ID: 74129

ISBN-13: 9780908569298

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 396pp, original brown cloth, small owner's label and signed inscription of Ann Savours Shirley, the polar historian, VG+ in VG dw with a couple of small marks.

A lively account of southwest Pacific whaling.
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From Husky to Sno-Cat. A Short Survey of Polar Exploration Yesterday and Today

By: Mountevans Admiral Lord

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Staples Press Ltd : 1957

Seller ID: 42055

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 173pp, VG in Good only dw with minor loss to top edge.

South With Scott

By: Mountevans Admiral Lord

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Collins : 1962

Seller ID: 44529

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 288pp, uneven fading to spine, near VG in Poor dw chipped and torn dw.

In 1909, Edward (Teddy) Evans, a Senior Royal Naval officer, accompanied Captain Robert Scott on his Polar expedition as his second in command.
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A Whale For The Killing.

By: Mowat Fraley

Price: £18.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd : 1972

Seller ID: 73786

ISBN-13: 9780771065705

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 239pp, Fine in near Fine price clipped dw.

A desperate plea to end the commercial hunting of the whale.
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From Edinburgh To The Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93

By: Murdoch W.G. Burn

Price: £110.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Paradigm Press : 1984

Seller ID: 63172

ISBN-13: 9780950610467

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xix, 364pp, original highly decorative cloth, small owner's signature, Fine.

A most attractive reprint retaining much of the character and style of the First Edition. Murdoch heard about the expedition from William Speirs Bruce, who had already signed on the expedition. Murdoch signed on the Balaena within a week of its departure. He believed that his artistic talents would benefit the scientists, he became not only the artist but also the expedition?s principal chronicler. His narrative covers the voyage south at great length, providing a fascinating picture of shipboard life. The Falkland Islands account is well detailed, and the Antarctic section of the narrative co...
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From Edinburgh To The Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93

By: Murdoch W.G. Burn

Price: £375.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green And Co : 1894

Seller ID: 66999

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xi, 364pp, plus adverts, original decorative cloth, professionally recased, new spine with original laid on, new endpapers, light foxing, heavier foxing to first few pages, VG. An attractive strong copy.

Murdoch heard about the expedition from William Speirs Bruce, who had already signed on the expedition. Murdoch signed on the Balaena within a week of its departure. He believed that his artistic talents would benefit the scientists, he became not only the artist but also the expedition?s principal chronicler. His narrative covers the voyage south at great length, providing a fascinating picture of shipboard life. The Falkland Islands account is well detailed, and the Antarctic section of the narrative contains astute observations of the wildlife and sealing operations. Bruce contributed a cha...
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From Edinburgh To The Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93

By: Murdoch W.G. Burn

Price: £115.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Paradigm Press : 1984

Seller ID: 70022

ISBN-13: 9780950610467

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xix, 364pp, original highly decorative cloth, Fine.

A most attractive reprint retaining much of the character and style of the First Edition. Murdoch heard about the expedition from William Speirs Bruce, who had already signed on the expedition. Murdoch signed on the Balaena within a week of its departure. He believed that his artistic talents would benefit the scientists, he became not only the artist but also the expedition?s principal chronicler. His narrative covers the voyage south at great length, providing a fascinating picture of shipboard life. The Falkland Islands account is well detailed, and the Antarctic section of the narrative co...
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From Edinburgh To The Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93

By: Murdoch W.G. Burn

Price: £100.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Paradigm Press : 1984

Seller ID: 56545

ISBN-13: 9780950610467

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xix, 364pp, original highly decorative cloth, small bump to top edge of rear board, VG+. Alan Gurney's copy with his pencil signature to the front endpaper and pencil annotation to rear endpaper. Gurney was a well known yacht designer with a passion for

A most attractive reprint retaining much of the character and style of the First Edition. Murdoch heard about the expedition from William Speirs Bruce, who had already signed on the expedition. Murdoch signed on the Balaena within a week of its departure. He believed that his artistic talents would benefit the scientists, he became not only the artist but also the expedition?s principal chronicler. His narrative covers the voyage south at great length, providing a fascinating picture of shipboard life. The Falkland Islands account is well detailed, and the Antarctic section of the narrative co...
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From Edinburgh To The Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93

By: Murdoch W.G. Burn

Price: £115.00

Publisher: Bluntisham Books / Paradigm Press : 1984

Seller ID: 73766

ISBN-13: 9780950610467

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xix, 364pp, original highly decorative cloth, Fine.

A most attractive reprint retaining much of the character and style of the First Edition. Murdoch heard about the expedition from William Speirs Bruce, who had already signed on the expedition. Murdoch signed on the Balaena within a week of its departure. He believed that his artistic talents would benefit the scientists, he became not only the artist but also the expedition?s principal chronicler. His narrative covers the voyage south at great length, providing a fascinating picture of shipboard life. The Falkland Islands account is well detailed, and the Antarctic section of the narrative co...
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Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men.

By: Murray James & Marston George

Price: £65.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2012

Seller ID: 72438

ISBN-13: 9781852971144

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 199pp, 4 colour illusts, 37 black and white illusts, original decorative boards, hardback, Fine in VG+ dw with small nick to spine. The dustwrapper closely matches the original. A facsimile Limited Edition of 280 individually numbered copies. Superbly pr

Antarctic Days is a fine complement to the other two significant titles relating to Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9, 'The Heart of the Antarctic' and 'Aurora Australis', and is one of the most sought after Antarctic titles. James Murray was the biologist in charge of base camp and George Marston was the expedition artist. The two authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humour and a gift of storytelling.
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Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men.

By: Murray James & Marston George

Price: £69.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2012

Seller ID: 72439

ISBN-13: 9781852971144

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 199pp, 4 colour illusts, 37 black and white illusts, original decorative boards, hardback, Fine in Fine dw. The dustwrapper closely matches the original. A facsimile Limited Edition of 280 individually numbered copies. Superbly produced to capture the ch

Antarctic Days is a fine complement to the other two significant titles relating to Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9, 'The Heart of the Antarctic' and 'Aurora Australis', and is one of the most sought after Antarctic titles. James Murray was the biologist in charge of base camp and George Marston was the expedition artist. The two authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humour and a gift of storytelling.
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Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men.

By: Murray James & Marston George

Price: £69.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2012

Seller ID: 72444

ISBN-13: 9781852971144

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 199pp, 4 colour illusts, 37 black and white illusts, original decorative boards, hardback, Fine in Fine dustwrapper which closely matches the original. A facsimile Limited Edition of 280 individually numbered copies. Superbly produced to capture the char

Antarctic Days is a fine complement to the other two significant titles relating to Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9, 'The Heart of the Antarctic' and 'Aurora Australis', and is one of the most sought after Antarctic titles. James Murray was the biologist in charge of base camp and George Marston was the expedition artist. The two authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humour and a gift of storytelling.
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Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men.

By: Murray James & Marston George

Price: £75.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2012

Seller ID: 71491

ISBN-13: 9781852971144

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 199pp, 4 colour illusts, 37 black and white illusts, original decorative boards, hardback, New in dustwrapper which closely matches the original. A facsimile Limited Edition of 280 individually numbered copies. Superbly produced to capture the character

Antarctic Days is a fine complement to the other two significant titles relating to Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9, 'The Heart of the Antarctic' and 'Aurora Australis', and is one of the most sought after Antarctic titles. James Murray was the biologist in charge of base camp and George Marston was the expedition artist. The two authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humour and a gift of storytelling.
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Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men.

By: Murray James & Marston George

Price: £75.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2012

Seller ID: 65233

ISBN-13: 9781852971144

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 199pp, 4 colour illusts, 37 black and white illusts, original decorative boards, hardback, New in dustwrapper which closely matches the original. A facsimile Limited Edition of 280 individually numbered copies. Superbly produced to capture the character

Antarctic Days is a fine complement to the other two significant titles relating to Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9, 'The Heart of the Antarctic' and 'Aurora Australis', and is one of the most sought after Antarctic titles. James Murray was the biologist in charge of base camp and George Marston was the expedition artist. The two authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humour and a gift of storytelling.
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Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men.

By: Murray James & Marston George

Price: £75.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2012

Seller ID: 65234

ISBN-13: 9781852971144

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 199pp, 4 colour illusts, 37 black and white illusts, original decorative boards, hardback, New in dustwrapper which closely matches the original. A facsimile Limited Edition of 280 individually numbered copies. Superbly produced to capture the character

Antarctic Days is a fine complement to the other two significant titles relating to Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9, 'The Heart of the Antarctic' and 'Aurora Australis', and is one of the most sought after Antarctic titles. James Murray was the biologist in charge of base camp and George Marston was the expedition artist. The two authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humour and a gift of storytelling.
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Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men.

By: Murray James & Marston George

Price: £69.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2012

Seller ID: 73773

ISBN-13: 9781852971144

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 199pp, 4 colour illusts, 37 black and white illusts, original decorative boards, hardback, Fine in Fine dustwrapper which closely matches the original. A facsimile Limited Edition of 280 individually numbered copies. Superbly produced to capture the char

Antarctic Days is a fine complement to the other two significant titles relating to Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9, 'The Heart of the Antarctic' and 'Aurora Australis', and is one of the most sought after Antarctic titles. James Murray was the biologist in charge of base camp and George Marston was the expedition artist. The two authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humour and a gift of storytelling.
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Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-96, and of a Fifteen Months Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. (Two Volumes)

By: Nansen Fridtjof

Price: £9.00

Publisher: George Newnes : 1898

Seller ID: 41024

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 480pp, 456pp, Volume 1 - lacking pages xiv, 1 & 2, lacking coloured plate and folding map, inscription, binding worn and boards detached. Volume 2 - some pages stuck together and crudely separated, some rippling to base of pages due to previous water dam

Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-96, and of a Fifteen Months Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. (Two Volumes)

By: Nansen Fridtjof

Price: £95.00

Publisher: George Newnes : 1898

Seller ID: 62430

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 456pp, 480pp, original highly decorative boards, a.e.g, owner's signature, folding map loose at rear, some foxing to endpapers and prelims, VG+. A most attractive set.

In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration In Early Times (Volume I only)

By: Nansen Fridtjof

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Heinemann : 1911

Seller ID: 71093

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xi, 384pp, original blue highly decorative cloth, exlibrary, spotting to edge of front board, light wear to extremities, light foreedge foxing, foxing to endpapers and first few pages including the half title and title page, Good.

The Arctic before Pytheas of Massalia, his voyage to Thule, the era after his explorations, the early Middle Ages, King Alfred, Ottar, Finns, Lapps, early settlements, voyages of the Norsemen, discovery of Iceland and Greenland, Wineland, the Fortunate Isles and the discovery of America.
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The First Crossing of Greenland (Two Volumes)

By: Nansen Fridtjof

Price: £450.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co : 1890

Seller ID: 66538

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxii, 510pp, x, 509pp, 24pp adverts, 12 plates, 5 folding maps, numerous engravings, original highly decorative brown cloth with silver gilt, professionally recased with new spines and originals laid on, some light foxing occasionally moderate, publisher

Narrative of the expedition of Nansen and Sverdrup with four companions to East Greenland to cross the icecap. Contains descriptions of the equipment, the voyage from Norway via Iceland to Umivik, the East Greenland coast and its ice belt and previous attempts to penetrate the ice belt there. A survey of previous attempts to explore the Greenland icecap, a detailed account of the expedition's crossing of the inland ice, Umivik to Godthaab on skis, Aug-Sept 1888. The wintering at Godthaab 1888-89, with observations on Eskimo life, and a chapter on skiing.
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Through Siberia. The Land of the Future

By: Nansen Fridtjof

Price: £48.00

Publisher: William Heinemann : 1914

Seller ID: 70934

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvi, 478pp , original decorative boards, spine titling dull, light foxing to endpapers and foreedges, sadly lacking one leaf of two plates otherwise, VG.

Nansen was looking for a new route via the Kara Sea with a view to improving access to the various resources of Siberia for the benefit of Western Europe.
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Official Report Of The Recent Arctic Expedition

By: Nares Captain R.N.

Price: £425.00

Publisher: John Murray : 1876

Seller ID: 48756

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 96pp, beautiful new half leather binding with marbled boards, small library ink stamps, some soiling to many pages and occasional foxing, lacking the frontispiece map, internally Good. A most attractive binding. A very scarce title indeed.

Official report to the Admiralty, this is the first published account of the arctic expedition led by Captain George Nares in the ships Alert and Discovery.
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