Category: Polar

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...
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The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica. A New View Of The Seventh Continent

By: May John

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley: 1989

Seller ID: 64245

ISBN: 0385262809

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, VG in dw with rear flap lacking.

A detailed account of Greenpeace's strategy for conserving the region. Foreword by Sir Peter Scott.
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The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica. A New View Of The Seventh Continent

By: May John

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley: 1988

Seller ID: 52698

ISBN: 0863182836

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 192pp, VG+ in VG+ dw.

A detailed account of Greenpeace's strategy for conserving the region. Foreword by Sir Peter Scott.
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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+

Arctic Flight. Adventures Amongst Northern Birds.

By: McCallum James

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Langford Press: 2007

Seller ID: 57402

ISBN: 1904078265

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 180pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

A collection of sketches, paintings and observations made in Finland, Norway, Siberia and Alaska, it is a visual and written account of travels to experience the wildlife of northern and arctic regions in its many moods and atmospheres.
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The Voyage Of The Fox in the Arctic Seas in search of Franklin and his companions

By: McClintock Capt R.N.

Price: £59.00

Publisher: John Murray: 1875

Seller ID: 56091

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 336pp, new binding, blue cloth spine and marbled boards, new endpapers, 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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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: McClintock, Captain Francis Leopold

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Konemann: 1998

Seller ID: 64232

ISBN: 3829008953

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 242pp, Fine in Fine dw.

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: McClintock, Captain Francis Leopold

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Konemann: 1998

Seller ID: 64233

ISBN: 3829008953

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 242pp, Fine in Fine dw.

The Third Voyage Of Martin Frobisher To Baffin Island 1578. The Hakluyt Society Third series No.6

By: McDermott James [editor]

Price: £9.00

Publisher: The Hakluyt Society: 2001

Seller ID: 53302

ISBN: 0904180697

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xi, 268pp, Fine in VG+ dw with sunning to spine.

Martin Frobisher's third voyage to Baffin island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism on the part of the adventurers of the ephemeral Company of Cathay. Their original intention of finding a north-western route to the Far East had been largely forgotten following the imagined discovery of gold and silver-bearing ore in Meta Incognita, as Elizabeth I had named the forbidding and icy landscape which Frobisher and seventeen mariners had first sighted two years earlier. This was to be the English nation's first experience of a goldrush. As the likelihood of future profits was...
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Exploring The Northwest Territory.

By: McDonald T. H.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press: 1966

Seller ID: 58291

Binding: hardcover

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.
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Polar Castaways. The Ross Sea Party (1914-17) Of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

By: McElrea Richard & Harrowfield David

Price: £34.00

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press: 2004

Seller ID: 66467

ISBN: 0773528253

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 315pp, illustrated endpapers, Fine in near Fine dw.

The first in-depth account of the Ross Sea Party, the drift of the Aurora and the relief expedition under the command of polar veteran Captain J. K. Davis.
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The Last Imaginary Place. A Human History of the Arctic World.

By: Mcghee Robert

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2006

Seller ID: 44512

ISBN: 0192807307

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 296pp, Fine in Fine dw.

Renowned archaeologist McGhee combines history, anthropology, and personal experience to reveal the true Arctic.
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Karluk. The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration

By: McKinlay William Laird

Price: £9.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: 1976

Seller ID: 70218

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 170pp, original grey cloth, small owner's address label and name ink stamp, VG in VG dw

The story of the ship Karluk trapped in ice, the crew were abandoned by the leaders of the expedition. Incredible story of their nightmare struggle for survival. Extraordinary photographs.
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The Old Whaling Days. A history of Southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840

By: McNab Robert

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Golden Press: 1975

Seller ID: 64193

ISBN: 0855584327

Binding: hardcover

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.
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The Antarctic. World Bibliographical Series. Volume 171.

By: Meadows Janice, Mills William and King H. G. R.

Price: £36.00

Publisher: Clio Press: 1994

Seller ID: 70184

ISBN: 1851091211

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 385pp, pictorial hardback, VG+.

An excellent reference item, includes chapters on geography, flora and fauna, science, history, politics, conservation and environmental management.
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In The Footsteps Of Scott

By: Mear Roger & Swan Robert

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: 1987

Seller ID: 58102

ISBN: 0224014183

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 306pp, Fine in VG+ dw

Modern day expedition that followed Captain Scott's 1912 route across Antarctica to the South Pole.
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Antarctica Both Heaven And Hell

By: Messner Reinhold

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Crowood Press: 1991

Seller ID: 45863

ISBN: 185223704X

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 381pp, VG+ in VG+ price clipped dw.

Account of Reinhold Messner's and Arved Fuchs' 2800 kilometre, 92-day journey on foot across Antarctica.
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There She Blows!

By: Mielche Hakon

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Travel Book Club: 1952

Seller ID: 57534

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 227pp, yellowing to page edges, near VG in Good dw with sellotape repairs.

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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There She Blows!

By: Mielche Hakon

Price: £4.00

Publisher: William Hodge & Co Ltd: 1952

Seller ID: 52523

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 228pp, Fine in VG+ dw

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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There She Blows!

By: Mielche Hakon

Price: £3.00

Publisher: William Hodge & Co Ltd: 1952

Seller ID: 64190

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 227pp, foxing to foreedges and first few pages, Good+ in Good+ dw with small scratch on spine.

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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Nordost Gronland 1908-60 Fangstmandsperioden

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Aschehoug: 2001

Seller ID: 58302

ISBN: 8711115386

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 423pp, pictorial boards, Fine.

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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North-East Greenland 1908-60. The Trapper Era (SIGNED COPY)

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Scott Polar Research Institute: 2008

Seller ID: 70300

ISBN: 0901021067

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 527pp, pictorial hardback, New, signed by Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen. A fantastic publication packed with a huge wealth of useful information and historical interest both of which are superbly illustrated.

At last we have an English edition of Nordøstgrønland 1908-60 - Fangstmandsperioden. This updated and enlarged translation of the classic Danish edition from 1994 has been published in response to the request of the increasing number of English-speaking scientists, adventurers and tourists visiting North-East Greenland. But this is much more than a translation. The book is the overall account of places and people during the pioneer era in the largest national park on Earth: North-East Greenland. It also contains a large amount of new material, recorded by the NANOK-expeditions in 2003-2007 ...
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North-East Greenland 1908-60. The Trapper Era (SIGNED COPY)

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Scott Polar Research Institute: 2008

Seller ID: 70301

ISBN: 0901021067

Binding: hardcover

North-East Greenland 1908-60. The Trapper Era (SIGNED COPY)

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Scott Polar Research Institute: 2008

Seller ID: 70302

ISBN: 0901021067

Binding: hardcover

One Thousand Days With Sirius. The Greenland Sledge Patrol

By: Mikkelsen Peter Schmidt

Price: £12.00

Publisher: The Steading Workshop: 2005

Seller ID: 66857

ISBN: 0955077303

Binding: paperback

Condition: 222pp, paperback, New. Signed and 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: 66858

ISBN: 0955077303

Binding: paperback

Condition: 222pp, paperback, New. Signed and 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: 66859

ISBN: 0955077303

Binding: paperback

Condition: 222pp, paperback, New. Signed and 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: 66901

ISBN: 0955077303

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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Kingdom Of The Ice Bear. A Portrait of the Arctic

By: Miles Hugh and Salisbury Mike

Price: £3.00

Publisher: BBC Books: 1985

Seller ID: 40874

ISBN: 0563203390

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 223pp, inscription, VG in VG dw.

The result of three years filming in the Arctic, lavishly illustrated.
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Kingdom Of The Ice Bear. A Portrait of the Arctic

By: Miles Hugh and Salisbury Mike

Price: £3.00

Publisher: BBC Books: 1986

Seller ID: 52618

ISBN: 0563203390

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 223pp, Fine in VG dw with sunning to spine.

The result of three years filming in the Arctic, lavishly illustrated.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby: 1999

Seller ID: 56696

ISBN: 0905355482

Binding: hardcover

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

A well researched biography, and the only biography of Frank Wild. He undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby: 1999

Seller ID: 56094

ISBN: 0905355482

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 343pp, small private bookplate, Fine in Fine dw, the Scarce First Edition, an important work.

A well researched biography, and the only biography of Frank Wild. He undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby: 1999

Seller ID: 33780

ISBN: 0905355482

Binding: hardcover

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

A well researched biography, and the only biography of Frank Wild. He undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £110.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby: 1999

Seller ID: 65398

ISBN: 0905355482

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 343pp, VG+ in VG dw with a little minor creasing.

A well researched biography, and the only biography of Frank Wild. He undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £42.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby: 2007

Seller ID: 66192

ISBN: 0905355482

Binding: hardcover

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

A well researched biography, and the only biography of Frank Wild. He 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: 33498

ISBN: 0905355482

Binding: hardcover

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

A well researched biography, and the only biography of Frank Wild. He 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: 33511

ISBN: 0905355482

Binding: hardcover

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

A well researched biography, and the only biography of Frank Wild. He 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: 33501

ISBN: 0905355482

Binding: hardcover

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

A well researched biography, and the only biography of Frank Wild. He undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Frank Wild

By: Mills Leif

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby: 1999

Seller ID: 70181

ISBN: 0905355482

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 343pp, VG+ in VG+ dw.

A well researched biography, and the only biography of Frank Wild. He undertook more antarctic exploration voyages then any of his contemporaries.
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Men Of Ice. The lives of Alistair Forbes Mackay (1878 - 1914) and Cecil Henry Meares (1877 - 1937).

By: Mills Leif

Price: £36.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby: 2008

Seller ID: 66422

ISBN: 0905355695

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 195pp, pictorial boards, Fine. With illustrations from Herbert Ponting and a foreword by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Two key members from the Shackleton and Scott Expeditions about whom little is often heard.
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By Airplane Towards The North Pole. An account of an expedition to Spitsbergen in the summer of 1923.

By: Mittelholzer Walter

Price: £48.00

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin: 1925

Seller ID: 58010

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 176pp, 48 illustrations and maps, original blue cloth, owner's signature, light foreedge foxing, short tear to one margin and one leaf has a corner clipped, VG. 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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The Whale In Fact And In Fiction.

By: Moffett Robert K. & Martha L.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Quest Publishing: 1967

Seller ID: 64178

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 154pp, VG in VG- price clipped dw with sunning to spine.

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: 70271

ISBN: 1852971169

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 ...
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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: 70272

ISBN: 1852971169

Binding: hardcover

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

Shackleton's Way. Leadership Lessons From The Great Antarctic Explorer.

By: Morrell Margot, Capparell Stephanie

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Nicholas Breasley Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 62101

ISBN: 1857882113

Binding: paperback

Condition: 238pp, card covers, Fine copy

Wings Over Ice. An Account of The Falkland Islands And Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition 1955-57.

By: Mott Peter

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Peter Mott: 1986

Seller ID: 44534

ISBN: 0951169904

Binding: paperback

Condition: 167pp, card cover, slight sunning to spine, near Fine.

More than a quarter of a century before the Falklands War took place, the dispute with Argentina and Chile over sovereignty of the Falklands and the British Dependencies in Antarctica had underlined the need for accurate maps. Consequently in 1955 the Government decided to fund a special expedition to undertake air photography and land-based control of Grahamland, now referred to as the Antarctic Peninsula. Peter Mott was assigned to organise and lead the expedition, which ultimately surveyed 35,000 square miles of hitherto unmapped territory.
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Wings Over Ice. An Account of The Falkland Islands And Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition 1955-57.

By: Mott Peter

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Peter Mott: 1986

Seller ID: 66604

ISBN: 0951169904

Binding: paperback

Condition: 167pp, card cover, New

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