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Adrift on an Ice-Pan  (SIGNED COPY)by: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Adrift on an Ice-Pan (SIGNED COPY)
by: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear/soil. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850801

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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 1853 '54 '55  (Two Volume Set )by: KANE Elisha Kent

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 1853 '54 '55 (Two Volume Set )
by: KANE Elisha Kent

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Childs and Peterson, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volumes, 464 pages and 467 pages. Publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in blind, gilt spines. Volume 1 has a frontispiece portrait, added engraved title, 1 folded map and 11 other plates; Volume 2 has a frontispiece portrait, added engraved title, 1 folded map, 1 full-page map (plate), and 7 other plates. Both volumes are also illustrated with appromimately 300 in-text wood-engravings. Both volumes with mild chipping to cloth at top of spine otherwise a clean, bright set.

Record # 358361

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Arctic Passage: The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea 1697-1975by: Hunt, William R.

Arctic Passage: The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea 1697-1975
by: Hunt, William R.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 395 pages, b&w illustrations, Green cloth, silver title to spine. Tan, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear and foxing to edges and spine. Overall a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606876

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Arctic Rodeo, Anby: Streeter, Daniel W.

Arctic Rodeo, An
by: Streeter, Daniel W.

Hardcover. New York , G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 356 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. 46 B&W photos and a map. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, soiled. Light flecking to cloth blue color. Tight copy. Greenland expedition in the Effie M. Morrissey, commanded by Capt. Bob Bartlett. Streeter's account featuring the Montana Cowboy, Carl Dunrud, who came aboard the arctic exploration vessel, Morrissey, specifically for the purpose of roping and bringing back live polar bears and other Arctic animals. Numerous black and white photographs showing various scenes of Greenland and native Inuit costumes and habits.

Record # 304148

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Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-'in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refugeby: Bass, Rick

Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-'in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
by: Bass, Rick

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket and cover boards.

Record # 2233108

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Defending the Arctic Refugeby: Dunaway, Finis

Defending the Arctic Refuge
by: Dunaway, Finis

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 329 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 372518

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Dog-Team Doctor - The Story of Dr. Romig (SIGNED BY DR. ROMIG)by: Anderson, Eva Greenslllit

Dog-Team Doctor - The Story of Dr. Romig (SIGNED BY DR. ROMIG)
by: Anderson, Eva Greenslllit

Hardcover. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, INSCRIBED BY THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK, DR. J.N. ROMIG on the half-title page. Black & white photo plates, 299 pages. Dust jacket badly chipped, light water stain to top edge. Previous owner's book plate opposite half title page.

Record # 68576

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Farthest North: Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship `Fram', 1893-1896, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. With an appendix by Otto Svedrup Captain of the `Fram'. In Two Volu

Farthest North: Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship `Fram', 1893-1896, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. With an appendix by Otto Svedrup Captain of the `Fram'. In Two Volu

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan and Co., reprint, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set. 12 mo. 351 + 471 pages. Original heavy navy with gilt lettering, and gilt embossed design on front over. "This Edition is intended for circulation only in India and British Colonies." This is a smaller edition than the original, and contains no photos but there is a folding map in Vol. 2. Light wrinkle to cloth spine of Vol. 1, endpapers in both books have foxing but doesn't affect internal pages. A clean, very good set. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 412177

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Forgotten Peoples of Siberia, Theby: Mayer, Fred

Forgotten Peoples of Siberia, The
by: Mayer, Fred

Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 205 pages, color photos throughout by Mayer. Edited by Gunther Doeker-Mach. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color photographs of native peoples of Russian Far East hunting, fishing, reindeer herding and their environment. Includes three essays describing problems of these peoples arising from tension between Russian colonisation and their struggle to preserve their identity.

Record # 850630

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Hunters of the Arcticby: Frison-Roche, Roger

Hunters of the Arctic
by: Frison-Roche, Roger

Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, photographs by Pierre Tairaz. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 370754

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Hunting with the Eskimosby: Whitney, Harry

Hunting with the Eskimos
by: Whitney, Harry

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 2nd, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A unique record of a sportsman's year among the northern most tribe. A rousing account of hunting bears, walrus, narwhals, and more in the Polar region of Alaska.. (C) 1910, b&w photos by author. Light stain to bottom front cover, otherwise VG.

Record # 12642

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In Northern Labrador by: Cabot, William Brooks

In Northern Labrador
by: Cabot, William Brooks

Hardcover. Boston, Richard B. Badger, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 292 pages. Octavo in original gilt lettered red cloth and gilt top edge with b&w plates (including frontispiece) from photos and maps on endpaper. "The author spent several seasons in (the) .Labrador interior, 1903-10, and records here his knowledge of the country, the trails, hunting & fishing among the Montagnais Indians." Previous owner's bookplate otherwise clean.

Record # 370524

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Infinite Ice: The Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Presentby: Schroder, Klaus Albrecht

Infinite Ice: The Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present
by: Schroder, Klaus Albrecht

Hardcover. US, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Photographs of glaciers and Arctic regions have existed almost as long as photography itself, as a function of documentary and mapmaking endeavors. As early as the 1860s, the medium was used to assess topology, capturing Arctic landscape at a distance and at close quarters, or producing stereoscopic images or panoramas. Glaciologists needed photographs to be taken year after year in order to assess the growth or contraction of the ice, and today repeat photography has become a valuable tool for documenting and demonstrating the real effects of global warming. In Infinite Ice, historical images are reproduced alongside the responses of contemporary artists who have addressed photography and landscape--for example, long, nighttime exposures by Darren Almond, aerial photographs by Olafur Eliasson or panoramic views by Walter Niedermayr. Featuring approximately 100 images, this volume presents a broad variety of glacial photography from 1860 to the present.

Record # 352033

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Journal of Andrew Stone: Expeditions to Arctic and Subarctic America after Wild Sheep, Grizzly, Caribou, and Muskoxen 1896-1903by: Margaret Frisina

Journal of Andrew Stone: Expeditions to Arctic and Subarctic America after Wild Sheep, Grizzly, Caribou, and Muskoxen 1896-1903
by: Margaret Frisina

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, 2nd Ed., 20ll, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Stone kept a series of journals during his arctic travels from 1896 through 1903 in which he recorded his struggles against raging blizzards, hostile natives, daunting physical risks, and mind-warping loneliness and boredom. B&w illustrations. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Record # 384495

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Last Polar Bear, The (SIGNED COPY)by: George, Jean Craighead/Wendell Minor

Last Polar Bear, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: George, Jean Craighead/Wendell Minor

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. INSCRIBED BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 610735

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Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contactby: Lyle Dick

Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
by: Lyle Dick

Softcover. Calgary CA, University of Calgary Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 615 pages. Critical forces of culture and nature collide in this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island in the age of contact. Surveying the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lyle Dick presents an impressive treatment of European-Inuit contact in the High Arctic (the area of what is now the Quttinirpaaq National Park) while considering the roles of the natural environment and cultures as factors in human history. As he charts the dynamic interplay between change and continuity in this forbidden land, Dick unravels the complexities of cultural exchange and human relationships to the Arctic landscape. Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration. Winner of the Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Clean copy.

Record # 378547

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North to the Horizon: Searching for Peary's Crocker Islandby: Hunt, Harrison J. and Thompson, Ruth Hunt

North to the Horizon: Searching for Peary's Crocker Island
by: Hunt, Harrison J. and Thompson, Ruth Hunt

Hardcover. Camden ME, Down East Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 117 pages, b&w illustrations. First-hand account of the Crocker Land Expedition to Greenland and Ellesmere Island, based on the diary, letters and reminiscences of the expedition's doctor. Includes observations of the Polar Eskimo lifestyle. Clean copy.

Record # 382245

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ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER:  New Yorker April 6 1968 - Seal math    by: Andre Francois (Illust.)

ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER: New Yorker April 6 1968 - Seal math
by: Andre Francois (Illust.)

1968, Book: Very Good, Color art by Francois of arctic seal calculating fish. 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Record # 384360

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Polar Bear Night (SIGNED COPY)by: Lauren Thompson / Stephen Savage

Polar Bear Night (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lauren Thompson / Stephen Savage

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.

Record # 375044

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Polar Bear Night (SIGNED COPY)by: Lauren Thompson / Stephen Savage

Polar Bear Night (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lauren Thompson / Stephen Savage

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.

Record # 375043

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Polar Explorationby: Croft, Andrew

Polar Exploration
by: Croft, Andrew

Hardcover. London, A. & C. Black Ltd, 2nd Ed., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages with 22 illustrations and 8 maps, bibliography, index, maroon cloth, white stamped titles. Clean copy.

Record # 382246

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Romance of Labrador, Theby: Grenfell, Sir Wilfred

Romance of Labrador, The
by: Grenfell, Sir Wilfred

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 329 pages, frontispiece, 31 b&w plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light edge wear to corners. Front hinge weak. Light bump to top corner of cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 372814

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Snowland Folk - The Eskimos the Bears the Dogs the Musk Oxen and Other Dwellers in the Frozen North. juvenile adventure in northern Greenland by: Peary, Robert E.

Snowland Folk - The Eskimos the Bears the Dogs the Musk Oxen and Other Dwellers in the Frozen North. juvenile adventure in northern Greenland
by: Peary, Robert E.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 97 pages,. Children's book by the famous explorer illustrated in black and white from photographs and drawings by Albert Operti. Original tan pictorial cloth with white-stamped lettering on front cover, and oval label with photo montage. Frontispiece. Pictorial title-page. Incredible condition, clean.

Record # 12380

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South Of Zero: The Journal Of John Hale Meredith While with the Clark-Jamison Antarctic Expedition of 191- to 191- by: Ross, M. I. (editor)

South Of Zero: The Journal Of John Hale Meredith While with the Clark-Jamison Antarctic Expedition of 191- to 191-
by: Ross, M. I. (editor)

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 3rd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with yellow lettering on spin and front cover, 280 pages. Map endpapers, color frontis and 17 b&w illustrations by John Whiting. This is a fictional account of an Antarctic expedition that appears to be based on the Scott, Shackleton and with a little of the Byrd Little America 1928-30 expeditions. Includes a Forward by J. S. O'Brien, an engineer on the first Little America expedition commenting on the writing skills of the fictional "Jack Meredith" for "... the most realistic of any I have every read." Brief inscription on blank prelim page otherwise clean.

Record # 398200

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Square in the Arctic Circle, A - An Alaskan Hunt by: Holmes, William Dayton

Square in the Arctic Circle, A - An Alaskan Hunt
by: Holmes, William Dayton

Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Shoe String Press, 1st , 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages, B&W photos. Hunting bears & wolves in the Arctic. Scarce hunting book. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 304386

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Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 1918: A Story of Exploration Science and Sovereignty by: Stuart E. Jenness

Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 1918: A Story of Exploration Science and Sovereignty
by: Stuart E. Jenness

Softcover. Quebec, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations. This book presents the first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, led by the ethnologist/ explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. Within its pages are details of the Expedition's successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition's two leaders.' Illustrated with 64 photos and 20 maps. Clean copy.

Record # 385696

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Summer In Alaska, A - A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska

Summer In Alaska, A - A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska

Hardcover. St. Louis, J.W. Henry, reprint, 1893, Book: Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, dark blue cloth w/gilt lettering. (C) 1891, so second edition, with illustrations from photographs and sketches. Light rubbing, shelf wear, a good plus copy of this narrative of a 1200 miles raft trip. Previous owner's bookplate paste down. wear to top & bottom spine.

Record # 9123

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The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Poleby: Klipper, Stuart

The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Pole
by: Klipper, Stuart

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Antarctica remains largely unknown and infinitely fascinating. Stuart Klipper has traveled to Antarctica six times in twentyyears to photograph this astounding body of work, offering a sweeping look at this majestic continent, which has lately become central to global climate change concerns. Shot in panoramic formatthe only way to encompass a landscapethat seems to stretch on foreverKlipper's work captures major features and surprising details: ships suspended in the frozen sea, glowing blue icebergs, vistas of endless snow, and troops of penguins. This volume's substantial size, panoramic shape, and unique vertical-opening case emphasize the grandeur of these austere and lovely photographs from the bottom of the world.

Record # 350222

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The Day Tuk Became a Hunter & Other Eskimo Storiesby: Melzack, Ronald

The Day Tuk Became a Hunter & Other Eskimo Stories
by: Melzack, Ronald

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 2-color Illustrations by Carol Jones, 92 pages. "Excitement and adventure pervade the mysterious Arctic as young Tuk experiences the thrill of killing his first bear; as beautiful Sedna commands the wrath of the seas; and as lovely Leealura wins the heart of Maleyato, the best hunter in the village." Clean copy.

Record # 70517

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The Ends of the Earth: The Polar Regions of the Worldby: Isaac Asimov

The Ends of the Earth: The Polar Regions of the World
by: Isaac Asimov

Hardcover. NY, Weybright and Talley, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 363 pages. A comprehensive survey of the geological and natural histories of the Arctic and Antarctic, their importance in myth, legend, and human history.

Record # 374134

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The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by: Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions
by: Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: 100.00, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Gilt still bright. The book shows little if any use. Two maps in excellent condition in pocket on rear paste down. 784 page, b&w frontispiece, fully illustrated with 138 photographs, 34 plates, 9 maps and 2 maps in a rear pocket, 4 fold out maps. Copyright page states: "Published in November 1921", title page states 1922. Preface by Stefansson, commander of expedition, who explains that he is an anthropologist by profession & he started his work. To learn whatever he could about the Eskimos. During 5-6 years of continuous residence he learned that the Eskimos resemble an uninstructed peasantry with a large measure of native intelligence lying fallow, lacking opportunities of instruction and development, "the Eskimos are honest and intelligent but have a higher percentage of unfounded beliefs than any white people with whom I have associated." Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 385397

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The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against The Confederate Navy And Arctic Disaster by: Songini, Marc

The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against The Confederate Navy And Arctic Disaster
by: Songini, Marc

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 432 pages, b&w illustrations. Despite having to contend with icebergs, storms, rogue whales, sharks, hostile natives, disease, the scarcity of whales, the increasing dangers of going farther into the Arctic, and the roving Confederate privateers, Captain Thomas William Williams of Wethersfield, Connecticut wemt out voyage after voyage, even taking on board with him his tiny wife, Eliza, and his infant son and daughter. This thrilling narrative recounts Williams' remarkable career, including a daring rescue and salvage of lost ships off Alaska's coast. Songini has crafted a historical masterpiece in recording a family saga, a true narrative of adventure and death on the high seas, and a detailed and well-researched look at the demise of Yankee whaling. Clean copy.

Record # 396662

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The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant by: Steele, Peter

The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant
by: Steele, Peter

Hardcover. Vancouver, Raincoast Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 307 pages. b&w illustrations. In the mid-1800s, George Back went on three Arctic expeditions with Sir John Franklin across the barren lands of the Canadian north. But unlike Franklin, Back lived to tell his tales in journals, drawings, watercolors, and maps. Noted writer Peter Steele drew on these sources, along with contemporary accounts, to craft this gripping tale of resilience in the face of incredible odds. The book thrillingly recounts the near-impossible circumstances of these expeditions -- the fights with the Hudson Bay Company, rations that failed to get through, even cannibalism. Back survived these horrors to lead an exploration of the Great Fish River, now named Back River in his honor. His return upstream, hauling his handmade boat up 83 sets of rapids, is one of the greatest-ever feats of heroism and endurance. Clean copy.

Record # 398100

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The Polar World A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globeby: Hartwig, Dr. G.

The Polar World A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe
by: Hartwig, Dr. G.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with beveled edges. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard and profusely illustrated throughout with 163 wood-engravings. The author of several other scientific works here gives a description of the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe in both a popular and scientific way. He gives a succinct history of the several polar expeditions, American and European. Covers with edge wear and fraying to spine, gilt blindstamped scene of dog sled on front cover, gilt kayak scene and lettering on spine faded. Interior of book very good, no markings.

Record # 383770

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Three Years of Arctic Service: An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest Northby: Greely, Adolphus W.

Three Years of Arctic Service: An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest North
by: Greely, Adolphus W.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's sons, rep, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 726 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with fold-out map in rear. Light edgewear, rubbing and soil to blue, gilt decorated boards. Small stain to lower corner of frontis piece portrait. Internally very good.

Record # 856968

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Tom's Rabbit - A Surprise on the Way to Antarcticaby: Hooper/Bert Kitchen, Meredith

Tom's Rabbit - A Surprise on the Way to Antarctica
by: Hooper/Bert Kitchen, Meredith

Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover.Color illustrations by Bert Kitchen. Dust jacket with 1 inch closed tears to spine bottom, back flap. On Christmas eve 1910 on the Shakleton expedition, a sailor's pet rabbit needs a cozy place to sleep. Based on expedition diaries.

Record # 502702

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Trapped by the Ice! - Shackleton's Amazing Antarctic Adventureby: McCurdy, Michael

Trapped by the Ice! - Shackleton's Amazing Antarctic Adventure
by: McCurdy, Michael

New York, Walker, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 40 pages. Color illustrations by author. Based on the true story of the English explorer in Antarctica.Clean copy.

Record # 204789

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Ultima Thule - Explorers and Natives in the Polar Northby: Malaurie, Jean

Ultima Thule - Explorers and Natives in the Polar North
by: Malaurie, Jean

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. An illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its effects on indigenous peoples. Ultima Thule is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, it brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples they found. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and the polar environment is bleak: the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing for good. But according to Jean Malaurie, the situation is not altogether without hope. Heavily illustrated with period photographs, engravings, artifacts, and drawings, the book gives the readers the impression of having an entire museum of North Pole history in their hands. 650 color and black-and-white photographs. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 611880

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With Byrd at the Bottom of the World: The South Pole Expedition of 1928-1930 (SIGNED COPY)by: Vaughan, Norman D.

With Byrd at the Bottom of the World: The South Pole Expedition of 1928-1930 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Vaughan, Norman D.

Hardcover. Harrisburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Newspaper clippings and autographed collectors card of the author laid in. 196 pages, b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451844

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With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arcticby: Binney, George/Professor W. J. Sollas

With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic
by: Binney, George/Professor W. J. Sollas

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran , 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Moderate foxing to edges and pages throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 612340

Price: $35.00 
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