Adventure from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

NY: Morrow. G hardback in G dj ex-library. (2017). 1st ed, 1 prnt. One of the world's most popular novelists with more than 125 copies of his books sold in 26 Languages. Set on the Malabar . coast, full of greedy traders, fearless pirates, and men hell-bent on vengeance. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. G Hardback in VG dj. 1995. 1st prntg. With the predatory relatioinship between India Bay'a Bengal tigers and the native of Sundarbans, a study notes how the . tigers are worshipped by the people there and reconts the many legends that associate the tigers with supernatural qualities. Small stain on facing pages 117 & 119, some underlining… Read more about this item

NY: Liveright Pub. VG in G DJ. (1962). How a man and woman on the same voyage and only surivors of 1,667 passengers and crew recovered from the Sea Queen, . a leading psychiatrist and a well known prostitute survived. DJ edge wear. .

NY: Outside Magazine/Macmillan. VG lg sz PB. (1996). Author knows New England the best, his boyhood stomping grounds. .

Saco, ME: Saco River Corridor Assn. G PB. (1976). Descriptions of stretches of river, facts about rapids, hazards, put-in and take-out spots, road acess and water levels . at different seasons as well a general history tying together events that took place in each town. Owner stamps, few marks to binding. .

NY: Adrenaline. VG lg sz PB. (1999). 1st ed. Best and most compelling stories about polar exploration by its greatest storytellers. Remainder mark. .

NY: Simon & Schuster. VG in VG DJ. (1999). 1st ptg. An uncommonly intrepid filmmaker who brought back spectacular IMAX footage from the top of Mt. Everest, made the documentary . Red Flag over Tibet about Chinese occupation of the Buddhist homeland for PBS' frontline, the guerrilla cinematographer who smuggled a 35mm Arriflex into Tibet to film scenes for the… Read more about this item

np: Sun Oil Co. G PB. (1936). In 1919, Thomas made his debut as a lecturer in NY and in 1924 published his first book, "With Lawrence in Arabia", starting . his career as a writer. Here are 10 mini stories of his most famous writings: Lauterbach of the China Sea, Count Luckner the Sea Devil; First World… Read more about this item

NY: Viking. VG in VG DJ. (2002). 1st ptg. The Belgian Congo of the 19th century was the world of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and a brutal time in African history. . European countries were slaughtering the Congolese to harvest the rubber needed for telegraph and electrical cables. William Sheppard was there to record the atrocities and to… Read more about this item

NY: Goldsmith. G. (1932). Copy of letter from Byrd ft endpaper .Green binding penguin pictorial, tanning toward page edges, hinges cracked. . Spine tanned. Author Adams was awarded a medal for his help in Byrd's expedition. .

Oslo, Norway: H. Aschehong & Co.. G. (1928). Marbled boards, black spine, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. heavy edge wear, scrape at top right corner of cover. . Nansen's crossing of Greenland which yielded information on its climate and geography, especially it's east coast. .

NY: Dutton. VG in G DJ. 1954. 3rd ptg. Lead of the British expedition Hunt gives the deeply moving story of that great undertaking. DJ edge split at spine, . chunks missing at edges. .

Philadelphia: Lippincott. VG in G DJ. (1964). BCE. The reader lives with the men on Everest and crosses the deadly Icefall that protects the mountain. DJ small edge tears. .

NY: HarperCollins. VG in VG DJ. (1999). 1st ptg. King's re-examines Scott's exploits, setting his own account against modern studies of the Polar Race and lets readers make . their own judgments. Suitable for gift giving. .

NY: Macmillan. VG in G DJ. 1924. Stefansson says great northern regions are not uninhabitable w/more than 700 species of flowering plants and grassy prairies. . The author sees these lands as a relief from overpopulation and consequent shortage of food. Owner inscription, DJ edge wear and mark on ft flap. .

NY: Pyramid. VG PB. (1969). 12 unbelievably thrilling sagas of men pushed to the brink of endurance first-accounts by men who have survived the impossible . Sl edge wear. .

NY: Harvest. G PB. (1983). 1st PB ptg. Survival of the bowhead whale and the continuation of the Eskimos' centuries-old hunt in the Bering Strait and Beauford . Sea became opposite poles of a conflict that drew Boeri to the remote St. Lawrence Island Village of Gambell and the North Slope boomtown of Barrow in Alaska. Corner creases. .

Chicago: Rand McNally. VG in VG DJ. (1953). 2nd ptg. Hass' first meeting with Manta birostris, a ray shaped like an enormous bat up to 22 feet from fin to fin & 6,000 pounds. . DJ price clipped, few page tops have paperclip marks. .

London: Century. VG PB. (1983). Reprint.

NY: Modern Library. VG in VG DJ. (2000). 1st ptg thus. In 1912 Russian navigator Albanov embarked i search of new Arctic hunting grounds. His ship Saint Anna was frozen fast in . pack ice in the treacherous Kara Sea. For almost 1-1/2 years the 25 men and one woman endured terrible hardships & danger. First published in 1917,… Read more about this item