Category: Polar

The Geography Of The Polar Regions. American Geographical Society Special Publication No.8

By: Nordenskjold Otto & Mecking Ludwig

Price: £20.00

Publisher: American Geographical Society : 1928

Seller ID: 71213

Condition: vii, 359pp, original grey cloth, ex college library, some general soiling to cloth, usual library markings, Good.

Consisting of A General Characterization of Polar Nature by Otto Nordenskjold, and A Regional Geography of the Arctic and the Antarctic by Ludwig Mecking.
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Spitsbergen. The Story of the 1962 Swiss-Spitsbergen Expedition.

By: Nunlist Hugo

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Nicholas Kaye : 1966

Seller ID: 74743

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 191pp, 48 illusts, 5 maps, original blue cloth, map endpapers, VG+ in VG+ dw. An attractive copy.

Translated by Oliver Coburn.
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The Northeast Passage. From the Vikings to Nordenskiold.

By: Nurminen John Foundation

Price: £110.00

Publisher: Helsinki University Library : 1992

Seller ID: 74037

ISBN-13: 9789529745029

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 286pp, folding map, illusts, original blue cloth, map endpapers to front, minor bump to bottom corner, VG+ in VG+ dw, signed inscription by Ann Savours Shirley, the polar historian. A most substantial volume.

With many illustrations and photographs and a rare selection of maps.
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South Latitude

By: Ommanney F.D.

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Longmans : 1965

Seller ID: 41042

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 308pp, exlibrary, usual markings, a reading copy only in dw.

South Latitude is a personal account of life in the Antarctic, among the whalers in South Georgia, and on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery II.
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South Latitude

By: Ommanney F.D.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co. : 1938

Seller ID: 73796

Binding: hardcover

Condition: x, 308pp, original green cloth, map endpapers, light foreedge foxing, VG in VG price clipped dw with slight sunning to spine.

South Latitude is a personal account of life in the Antarctic, among the whalers in South Georgia, and on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery II.
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South Latitude

By: Ommanney F.D.

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co. : 1938

Seller ID: 57300

Binding: hardcover

Condition: x, 308pp, original green cloth, map endpapers, top corner of front endpaper clipped, Good+ in colour photocopy of original dw.

South Latitude is a personal account of life in the Antarctic, among the whalers in South Georgia, and on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery II.
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Poles Apart. A Fast-Moving Account Of His Adventures From Alaska To Antarctica.

By: Pape Richard

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Odhams Press : 1960

Seller ID: 64062

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 256pp, map endpapers, watermark to base of boards, foreedge foxing, page edges dusty, Good in Good dw

South Light. A Journey to Antarctica.

By: Parfit Michael

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury : 1988

Seller ID: 40855

ISBN-13: 9780747501343

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 306pp, some damage to spine, a reading copy.

Narrative of the community and wildlife of the Antarctic.
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South Light. A Journey to Antarctica.

By: Parfit Michael

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury : 1988

Seller ID: 73781

ISBN-13: 9780747501343

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 306pp, VG+ in VG+ dw.

Narrative of the community and wildlife of the Antarctic.
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Journal Of A Second Voyage For The Discovery Of A North-West Passage From The Atlantic To The Pacific; Performed In The Years 1821-22-23, In His Majesty's Ships Fury And Hecla.

By: Parry Capt William Edward

Price: £100.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press : 1969

Seller ID: 49503

ISBN: 837114489

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxx, 571pp, maps, panoramas, a Fine copy. A scarce quality reprint.

Parry sailed through Hudson and Frozen Straits, explored Repulse Bay and on to Lyon Inlet. After wintering at Winter Island he sailed northward discovering Fury and Hecla Strait and spent the second winter at Igloolik. The deteriorating health of his crew forced him to return home in October 1823. Parry's journey gives a detailed account of the voyage and explorations along the coasts of northeastern Melville Peninsula and southern Cockburn Land.
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Journal Of A Second Voyage For The Discovery Of A North-West Passage From The Atlantic To The Pacific; Performed In The Years 1821-22-23, In His Majesty's Ships Fury And Hecla.

By: Parry Capt William Edward

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press : 1969

Seller ID: 50610

ISBN: 837114489

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxx, 571pp, maps, panoramas, original brown cloth, VG+. A scarce quality reprint.

The journey was undertaken in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majsty's ships Fury and Hecla under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S and commander of the expedition.
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Journal Of A Second Voyage For The Discovery Of A North-West Passage From The Atlantic To The Pacific; Performed In The Years 1821-22-23, In His Majesty's Ships Fury And Hecla.

By: Parry Capt William Edward

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press : 1969

Seller ID: 63183

ISBN: 837114489

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxx, 571pp, maps, panoramas, one folding map has tear repaired, VG+. A scarce quality reprint.

Parry sailed through Hudson and Frozen Straits, explored Repulse Bay and on to Lyon Inlet. After wintering at Winter Island he sailed northward discovering Fury and Hecla Strait and spent the second winter at Igloolik. The deteriorating health of his crew forced him to return home in October 1823. Parry's journey gives a detailed account of the voyage and explorations along the coasts of northeastern Melville Peninsula and southern Cockburn Land.
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Journal Of A Voyage For The Discovery Of A North-West Passage From The Atlantic To The Pacific; Performed In The Years 1819-20, In His Majesty's Ships Hecla And Griper. With An Appendix, Containing The Scientific and Other Observations

By: Parry Capt William Edward

Price: £115.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press : 1968

Seller ID: 49504

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxix, 310pp, clxxix, plus xii, 132pp of the North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle, original brown cloth, a Fine copy. A scarce quality reprint.

The Hecla and Griper, May 1819 - October 1820, sailed up Baffin Bay, through Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait to the south side of Melville Island where they wintered and returned to England by the same route the following year. The expedition discovered and penetrated a short distance into Prince Regent's Inlet, discovered Banks Island, and surveyed the south shores of Barrow Strait.
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Journal Of A Voyage For The Discovery Of A North-West Passage From The Atlantic To The Pacific; Performed In The Years 1819-20, In His Majesty's Ships Hecla And Griper. With An Appendix, Containing The Scientific and Other Observations

By: Parry Capt William Edward

Price: £110.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press : 1968

Seller ID: 63182

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxix, 310pp, clxxix, plus xii, 132pp of the North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle, original brown cloth, light foreedge foxing, VG+. A scarce quality reprint.

The Hecla and Griper, May 1819 - October 1820, sailed up Baffin Bay, through Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait to the south side of Melville Island where they wintered and returned to England by the same route the following year. The expedition discovered and penetrated a short distance into Prince Regent's Inlet, discovered Banks Island, and surveyed the south shores of Barrow Strait.
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Memoirs Of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry, Kt.

By: Parry Rev. Edward

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts : 1858

Seller ID: 48754

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvi, 365pp, coloured map, mint new blue cloth binding with paper spine label, university ink stamps, edge of frontispiece a bit ragged, light soiling to pages, page edges dusty, internally near VG.

First published in 1857. A chronicle by his son of Parry's life, 1790-1855. Includes his trip to Bear Island 1812, and expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in 1818, 1819-20, 1821-23 and 1824-25. Based on published narratives and on Parry's unpublished journals and letters to relatives.
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Trial By Ice. The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition

By: Parry, Richard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books US : 2002

Seller ID: 73322

ISBN-13: 9780345439260

Binding: paperback

Condition: xiii, 321pp, paperback, private bookplate, VG+.

"An extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the dark years following the Civil War, America's foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of President Grant, Captain Hall and his crew boarded the Polaris, a steam schooner carefully refitted for its rigorous journey, and began their quest to be the first men to reach the North Pole. Neither ...
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Amundsen

By: Partridge Bellamy

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Robert Hale : 1953

Seller ID: 5479

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 206pp, exlibrary, library binding, orange cloth, Good.

Antarctica: to a lonely land I know

By: Pawson Ken

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Whippoorwill Press : 2001

Seller ID: 73792

ISBN-13: 9780968167519

Binding: paperback

Condition: 314pp, paperback, near VG

Recounts a young man's experience during the Golden Age of Antarctic exploration immediately following World War II.
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Captain Scott

By: Peach L. Du Gare

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ladybird Books : 1963

Seller ID: 48890

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 50pp, pictorial boards, map endpapers, VG

Children's book.
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Captain Scott

By: Peach L. Du Gare

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Ladybird Books : 1963

Seller ID: 67884

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 50pp, pictorial boards, map endpapers, VG+.

Children's book.
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Joint Services Expedition. North Peary Land 1969

By: Peacock Major J. D. C.

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Joint Services Expedition : 1969

Seller ID: 72838

Binding: paperback

Condition: prelims, 46pp, plus appendices, maps, illusts, original paper wraps, title handwrittem on spine, VG+, signature of Lieutenant H. P. May, expedition member, to front endpaper.

Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. Originally, Peary Land was believed to be an island, separated from the main island by Peary Channel, an assumed connection between Victoria Fjord and Independence Fjord.
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My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos

By: Peary Josephine D

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Longmans, Gren, and Co. : 1893

Seller ID: 57447

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 240pp, exlibrary, half leather with raised bands, front board partly detached, small library ink stamps, foxing to endpapers, it would appear to be complete perhaps lacking a half title, a reading copy.

With an account of The Great White Journey Across Greenland by Robert R. Peary.
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Northward Over The Great Ice (Two Volumes)

By: Peary R.E.

Price: £160.00

Publisher: Methuen & Co : 1898

Seller ID: 68029

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 521pp, 625pp, maps diagrams, approx 800 illusts, original decorative boards, professionally recased with new spines and original cloth laid on, light wear to extremities, corner tips worn, one plate has margins trimmed, VG.

A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897.
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Nearest The Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906.

By: Peary Robert E.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Hutchinson : 1907

Seller ID: 52805

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xx, 411pp, 98 illusts, folding maps, original black decorative cloth, professionally recased with new spine and original relaid, wear to corner tips, boards a little rubbed, very clean internally, VG.

The account of the second unsuccessful attempt by Peary, in 1906, to reach the North Pole. He was forced to turn back 175 miles from his destination. He passed Ellesmere Land to Cape Sheridan and the Arctic Basin, returning along the coast of Greenland.
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Nearest The Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906.

By: Peary Robert E.

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Hutchinson : 1907

Seller ID: 53172

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xx, 411pp, 98 illusts, folding maps, original black decorative cloth, professionally recased with new spine and original relaid, near VG.

The account of the second unsuccessful attempt by Peary, in 1906, to reach the North Pole. He was forced to turn back 175 miles from his destination. He passed Ellesmere Land to Cape Sheridan and the Arctic Basin, returning along the coast of Greenland.
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The North Pole

By: Peary Robert E.

Price: £130.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton : 1910

Seller ID: 72820

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 326pp, 116 illusts, folding map, original decorative boards, professionally recased with new spine and original relaid, light wear to extremities, margin tear repaired to folding map, very clean indeed, VG+. An attractive copy.

Peary's last expedition 1908-09, the voyage of the 'Roosevelt' through the ice of Smith Sound-Robeson Channel to winter quarters at Camp Jesup, Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island. Hunting, sledging and the final march to the Pole.
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Subantarctic New Zealand. A Rare Heritage.

By: Peat Neville

Price: £17.00

Publisher: Department of Conservation : 2003

Seller ID: 64255

ISBN-13: 9780478224641

Binding: paperback

Condition: 96pp, paperback, VG.

Polar Animals

By: Pedersen Alwin

Price: £11.00

Publisher: George G. Harrap : 1962

Seller ID: 74748

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 188pp, VG in Good rubbed dw with small tears repaired.

Henry Hudson's Third Voyage

By: Penkala Edward

Price: £4.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1959

Seller ID: 45067

Binding: paperback

Condition: 247-255pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine October, 1959, in green card covers, VG+

Henry Hudson's name is commemorated by a bay nearly half a million square miles in area, a strait, and a river on which has grown up the world's most fabulous city.
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A Voyage Towards The North Pole Undertaken By His Majesty's Command 1773

By: Phipps Constantine John

Price: £140.00

Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby : 1978

Seller ID: 63798

ISBN-13: 9780905355054

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 76pp, facsimile reprint, No.39 of only 100 copies, numerous folding maps and illusts, Fine in Fine dw.

An expedition to the North Pole to test the open polar sea theory, he reached the northwest coast of Spitsbergen and went on to achieved a record North of 80 deg 48 min.
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A Naturalist's Guide To The Arctic

By: Pielou E. C.

Price: £7.00

Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press : 1994

Seller ID: 70684

ISBN-13: 9780226668147

Binding: paperback

Condition: 327pp, paperback, sunning to spine, VG

A compact source of information for hikers, kayakers, canoeists, rafters, photographers and naturalists of all kinds. The guide will ensure that naturalists in the Arctic miss nothing.
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Across West Antarctica

By: Pirrit John

Price: £32.00

Publisher: John Smith & Son : 1967

Seller ID: 73806

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xi, 130pp, Fine in VG+ dw. A most attractive copy.

Account of the exploration of the Filchner Ice Shelf in Western Antarctica.
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Nordic Journeys

By: Plant Terry

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Terry Plant : 1990

Seller ID: 45919

ISBN-13: 9780951051122

Binding: paperback

Condition: 110pp, paperback, Fine copy, signed by the author, Terry Plant.

A Visit To The Living Ice Age

By: Platt Rutherford

Price: £11.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1957

Seller ID: 45065

Binding: paperback

Condition: 525-541pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine April 1957, in green card covers, VG+

Plants, animals, and men defy subzero weather and bitter winds, perpetuating life in the shadow of the North Pole.
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The Isle of Auks

By: Polunin Nicholas

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Edward Arnold & Co : 1932

Seller ID: 51597

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 253pp, original grey cloth, front endpaper missing, sunning to spine and edge of boards, wear to extremities, Fair.

The Oxford University Expedition of 1931 to Akpatok, an unexplored island of the American Arctic Archipelago.
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Trailing Cosmic Rays In Canada's North

By: Pomerantz Martin A.

Price: £16.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1953

Seller ID: 45060

Binding: paperback

Condition: 99-115pp, extract from National Geographic Magazine Jan 1953, bound in card covers, VG+

20 miles aloft over Hudson Bay, Scientists find clues to origin of Hih-speed Atomic Particles that bombard earth.
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In Lotus-Land Japan

By: Ponting Herbert G.

Price: £36.00

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons : 1922

Seller ID: 52804

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 306pp, original highly decorative blue cloth, exlibrary, only a few discreet ink stamps, small split to head of spine, spine lettering a little dull, private bookplate, inscription, Good+.

Illustrated with photographs by the author.
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The Great White South or With Scott In The Antarctic

By: Ponting Herbert G.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth : 1950

Seller ID: 72148

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xviii, 300pp, plus photographs, original blue cloth, exceptionally clean, near Fine in VG+ dw. A lovely copy.

Ponting's riveting account of the 'British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13' and Scott's fateful return journey from the South Pole, told by the photographer attached to the expedition illustrated with his unique photographs.
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The Great White South or With Scott In The Antarctic

By: Ponting Herbert G.

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth : 1923

Seller ID: 57466

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxvi, 306pp, original blue cloth, owner's signature, light foxing to endpapers, light wear to extremities, occasional light foxing, VG in colour photocopy of original dw.

Ponting's riveting account of the 'British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13' and Scott's fateful return journey from the South Pole, told by the photographer attached to the expedition illustrated with his unique photographs.
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The Great White South or With Scott In The Antarctic

By: Ponting Herbert G.

Price: £26.00

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth : 1926

Seller ID: 62401

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxvi, 306pp, original blue cloth, inscr, light wear to extremities, light foxing to endpapers, VG in colour photocopy of original dw.

Ponting's riveting account of the 'British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13' and Scott's fateful return journey from the South Pole, told by the photographer attached to the expedition illustrated with his unique photographs.
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The Great White South or With Scott In The Antarctic being an account of experiences with Captain's Scott's South Pole Expedition and of The Nature Life of the Antarctic.

By: Ponting Herbert G.

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth : 1928

Seller ID: 51667

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 306pp, 164 illusts, gilt school emblem to front board, prize bookplate, VG in colour photocopy of original dw.

Ponting's riveting account of the 'British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13' and Scott's fateful return journey from the South Pole, told by the photographer attached to the expedition illustrated with his unique photographs.
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A First Rate Tragedy. Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions

By: Preston Diana

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Constable : 1997

Seller ID: 40879

ISBN-13: 9780094763807

Binding: paperback

Condition: 269pp, paperback, VG.

Drawing on new research this gripping account analyses the reasons why Scott's carefully planned expedition failed while Amundsen's opportunistic dash to the Pole succeeded.
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A First Rate Tragedy. Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions

By: Preston Diana

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Constable : 1997

Seller ID: 52712

ISBN-13: 9780094763807

Binding: paperback

Condition: 269pp, paperback, Fine

Drawing on new research this gripping account analyses the reasons why Scott's carefully planned expedition failed while Amundsen's opportunistic dash to the Pole succeeded.
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A First Rate Tragedy. Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions

By: Preston Diana

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Constable : 1997

Seller ID: 67913

ISBN-13: 9780094763807

Binding: paperback

Condition: 269pp, paperback, VG+

Drawing on new research this gripping account analyses the reasons why Scott's carefully planned expedition failed while Amundsen's opportunistic dash to the Pole succeeded.
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Travail So Gladly Spent

By: Price Tom

Price: £25.00

Publisher: The Ernest Press : 2000

Seller ID: 56413

ISBN-13: 9780948153563

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 280pp, Fine in Fine dw, signed by Tom Price.

Short listed for 2000 Boardman Tasker Award Tom Price has been active in the outdoors throughout a long life: climbing, mountaineering, canoeing, camping, skiing, Antarctic exploration, and travelling in many lands have all been and remain great enthusiasms. Also throughout his life he has written evocatively and entertainingly about his experiences ? early outings in the Lakes, surveying in South Georgia, climbing in the Alps, leading young and old parties in the wilds of Lesotho, a classic canoeing trip of 500 miles through the North West Territories, mountain rescue in the Lakes.The author ...
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Travail So Gladly Spent

By: Price Tom

Price: £25.00

Publisher: The Ernest Press : 2000

Seller ID: 56414

ISBN-13: 9780948153563

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 280pp, Fine in Fine dw, signed by Tom Price.

Short listed for 2000 Boardman Tasker Award Tom Price has been active in the outdoors throughout a long life: climbing, mountaineering, canoeing, camping, skiing, Antarctic exploration, and travelling in many lands have all been and remain great enthusiasms. Also throughout his life he has written evocatively and entertainingly about his experiences ? early outings in the Lakes, surveying in South Georgia, climbing in the Alps, leading young and old parties in the wilds of Lesotho, a classic canoeing trip of 500 miles through the North West Territories, mountain rescue in the Lakes.The author ...
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Through Trackless Labrador

By: Prichard H. Hesketh

Price: £80.00

Publisher: William Heinemann : 1911

Seller ID: 57444

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xv, 254pp, original decorative red cloth, wear to extremities, lacking one plate at p210, Good.

Antarctic Adventure. Scott's Northern Party

By: Priestley Raymond E.

Price: £425.00

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin : 1914

Seller ID: 74041

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 382pp, 150 illusts, folding maps, original blue highly decorative boards, new spine with original relaid, spine darkened, gilt to front board dull, t.e.g., foxing to endpapers and occasional elsewhere, one plate creased and frayed at edge, signed inscrip

A gripping read covering two winters, Cape Adare and Inexpressible Island, and the journey back to Ross Island to rescue themselves after the second winter. The six member party had courage, spirit and tenacity - the alternative was death.
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