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Mirage in The Arctic
by Mikkelsen, Ejnar (Translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael)
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- First Edition
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- 1955
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. 1st UK Edition: 216 pages, illustrated, map, b/w photos. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, repaired tears to dust jacket, neat previous owners signature on front end papers otherwise contents clean, publishers details rubbed out on title page. … Read more about this item Item Price
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WITH STEFANSSON IN THE ARCTIC
by Noice, Harold
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- Used - Good Condition
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1925
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Printing February 1925: 270 pages, illustrated b&w photos, 1 folding map. Pages uncut, original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, spotting to page edges and some pages, contents clean. "The book is the narrative of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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TO THE ARCTIC! The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times to the Present
by Mirsky, Jeanette (With an Introduction by Vilhjalmur Stefansson)
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 1949
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Allan Wingate, London, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition: xxii, 334 pages, xviii index, illustrated, b/w illustrations, plates, maps including large folding map at end of book. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Covers sunned, shelf wear, some spotting to page edges and end papers, prelims. To the Arctic… Read more about this item Item Price
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Climbing the Pole: Edmund Hillary & the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958
by John Thomson
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- Used - Fine Condition
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 2010
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- Softcover
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- 9781852971069
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The Erskine Press, UK, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 144 pages plus publishers adverts. Softcover, illustrated with b/w photos, maps. As New, appears unread. In 1957 on the Antarctic Plateau Sir Edmund Hillary, the great New Zealand mountaineer, raced his expedition leader, Vivian Fuchs, to the South Pole for reasons… Read more about this item Item Price
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TO THE ARCTIC! The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times to the Present
by Mirsky, Jeanette (With an Introduction by Vilhjalmur Stefansson)
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- First Edition
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- 1949
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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Allan Wingate, London, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xxi, 334 pages, index, illustrated, b/w illustrations, maps including large folding map. Original covers, no dust jacket. School presentation copy with presentation bookplate dated 1935 and previous owners neat inscription on verso cover, contents clean. Shelf wear, covers faded,… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ROSS SEA SHORE PARTY 1914 - 17. Scott Polar Research Institute. Special Publication Number 2
by Richards, R.W
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- Used - Near Fine Condition
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- Near Fine
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- Second Edition
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- 2003
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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- 9781852970772
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The Erskine Press, UK, 2003. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 2003 Reprint; ii, 44 pages, 1 map. Original covers in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. In August 1914 Shackleton set sail for the South Pole on the Endurance.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Endurance": Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Lansing, Alfred
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- Used - Good Condition
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- 1980
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- Paperback
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- 9780586051207
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Granada Publishing, London, 1980. Paperback. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Paperback, 302 pages, illustrated, 14 b/w photos. Ernest Shackleton's third Antarctic expedition sailed from London. His ship was the Endurance, but little did her complement know that their own Endurance would be tested to the full after the ship was trapped in the ice in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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NEW LAND Four Years in the Arctic Regions. Translated from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. With illustrations and Maps. 2 Volumes
by Sverdrup,Otto
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- First Edition
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- 1904
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Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st English Edition: Vol I, xvi, 496 pages; Vol II, xii, 504 pages, illustrated with 62 b/w photos,NOTE: All the 4 maps in pocket at end of volume 2 are Professional COPIES (the large map is in colour). Original covers.… Read more about this item Item Price
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A THOUSAND DAYS IN THE ARCTIC: With Preface by Admiral Sir F. Leopold McClintock
by Jackson, Frederick G
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- First Edition
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- 1899
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- Hardcover
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Harper & Brothers, London, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Vol I xxi, 551 pages, Vol II xxii-xv, 580 pages. Appendices, indices. Illustrated throughout with over one hundred eighty black & white drawings, plates, 5 maps. Hardcovers, rebacked very nicely. Shelf wear, corners bumped, some minor foxing, mainly to prelims.… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE FRIENDLY ARCTIC: The Story Of Five Years In Polar Regions
by Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
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- Used - Good Condition
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- First Edition
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- 1921
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- Hardcover
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Macmillan and Co.,, London, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xxxi, 784 pages, illustrated, b/w plates, 9maps (2 folding maps in rear pocket are later professional copies). Original Cloth covers, rebacked, no dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper, pages slightly wrinkled, overall a very nice copy. Contains… Read more about this item Item Price
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Antarctic Eyewitness: South with Mawson and Shackleton's Argonauts
by Laseron, Charles Francis and Hurley, F.Jack (Introduction by Bowden, T)
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- No Dust Jacket
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- 2002
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- Paperback
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- 9781841582207
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Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2002 Paperback Edition: 292 pages, illustrated, b/w photos, maps. Previous owners inscription back of front cover otherwise contents clean. Appears unread. 2 books in one. Great reading. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 1841582204. ISBN/EAN:… Read more about this item Item Price
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WITH SCOTT: THE SILVER LINING
by Taylor, Griffith (Introduction by D.W.H. Walton)
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- 1977
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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- 9781852970482
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Bluntisham Books, Erskine Press, UK, 1977. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1977 Bluntisham Edition: xv 464 pages, illustrated b/w photos, maps, including a large folding map at the end of the book. Original covers, no dust jacket. A beautifully produced book matching very closely the character and quality of the original… Read more about this item Item Price
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SOUTH LATITUDE
by Ommanney, F.D
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- Used - Good Condition
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- Third Edition
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- 1947
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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Longmans,Green & Co, London, 1947. Third Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Reprinted by Novographic Process 1947 Edition; x, 308 pages, illustrated, map end papers, b/w photos. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers stained, spine sunned, spotting to page edges. The author was a lecturer in zoology and made this voyage… Read more about this item Item Price
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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION: Extracts From the Personal Journals of Capt.R.F. SCOTT, C.V.O., R.N
by Scott, Captain Robert F., C.V.O., R.N
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- Used - Reading Copy
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- Fair
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- 6th Edition or Higher
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- 1952
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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John Murray, London, 1952. 6th Edition or Higher. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Reading Copy/Fair. 10th impression, pocket sized highly abridged 1 volume edition: 188 pages, illustrated, 22 b/w photos, map end papers. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Contents: Preface, Names of Officers and Men, Scott's early days and naval career, Through Stormy Seas,… Read more about this item Item Price
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SKYWARD
by Byrd, Richard E, Edited by Anderson, W. R with Publishers Preface
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Revised Edition
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- 1981
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, USA, 1981. Revised Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1981 Edition: xliii xv, 382 pages plus publishers catalogue, illustrated, coloured folding map, b/w frontispiece, photos. Original covers, no dust jacket. Previous owners signature and date on front end paper otherwise contents clean. A nice copy Quantity Available: 1.… Read more about this item Item Price
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SOUTH: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition in the Antarctic
by Shackleton, Sir Ernest. (foreword by Cahill, Tim)
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- No Dust Jacket
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- 1998
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- Softcover
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- 9781558217836
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Lyons Press, distributed by Airlife Publishing Limited, 1998. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Lyons Press 1998 Softcover Edition; xxi, 376 pages, illustrated, b/w photos, maps. Small neat previous owners verso front cover otherwise contents clean. As New. Probably the most evocative narrative of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, telling of the survival of… Read more about this item Item Price
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ACROSS THE TOP OF THE WORLD: The British Trans- Arctic Expedition
by Herbert, Wally
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- Used - Very Good Condition
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1969
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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- 9780582108011
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Longmans, London, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1st UK Edition: 209 pages, illustrated, map, 24 pages of b/w photographs. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket protected in sleeve, previous owners neat inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean. A very nice bright copy. The Arctic expedition of… Read more about this item Item Price
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THREE GOT THROUGH: Memoirs of an Arctic explorer
by Lindsay, Martin
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- Used - Good Condition
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- Fair
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- First Edition
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- 1946
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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The Falcon Press, London, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. 1st Edition: 262 pages, illustrated, 16 b/w photographs, 3 maps. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear. dust jacket, faded, nibbled, contents clean. Autobiographical account of the Gino Watkins Arctic Air Route expedition and the story of three men who made… Read more about this item Item Price
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Great Exploration Hoaxes
by Roberts, David
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- Used - Good Condition
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- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1982
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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- 9780871563255
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Sierra Club Books, San Fransico, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. 1st Edition: x, 182 pages, illustrated b/w photos, maps. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, dust jacket tatty with odd piece missing. Previous owners neat inscription verso half title, front end paper removed. Contents clean. David Roberts scrutinises 10… Read more about this item Item Price
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Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science
by Belanger, Dian Olson
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- As New
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 2010
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- Softcover
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- 9781607320661
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University Press of Colorado, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. 1st Softcover Edition: 494 pages, illustrated b/w photos, maps. As New, appears unread. Dian Olson Belanger tells the story of the pioneers who built viable communities, made vital scientific discoveries, and established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and the pursuit of… Read more about this item Item Price
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