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Excitement, adventure and really wild things. Filling in the blanks on the maps and visiting far flung places unspoilt by the modern world and tourism.
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1927 The First Flight Across the Polar SeaLondon: 1927An uncommon work on aerial polar exploration by Amundsen and Ellsworth, the first edition of this illustrated work.
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1914 Through Siberia, The Land of the FutureLondon: 1914The first English language edition of this study of Siberia, by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
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1900-02 The Traveller For Whom the World is a PlaygroundLondon: 1900-02A very scarce illustrated travel magazine from the beginning of the twentieth century, a total of seventy-eight issues exploring the globe.
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1898 Northward Over the "Great Ice"London: 1898The two volume first UK edition of this fascinating autobiographical work by American Arctic explorer Robert Peary.
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1934 The Conquest of the North PoleLondon: 1934The first edition of J. Gordon Hayes' richly illustrated history of arctic exploration.
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1780 Letters on IcelandDublin: 1780A very smart edition of the scarce first Dublin edition of Uno von Troil's description of eighteenth century Iceland, illustrated with a folding map.
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1910 The North PoleLondon: 1910A bright first edition of Robert Peary's controversial 1908-1909 expedition to the North Pole, illustrated throughout.
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1962 The Icelandic Jaunt A Study of the Expeditions Made by Morris to Iceland in 1871 and 1873London : 1962A smart limited edition copy of this work on the travels of William Morris to Iceland.
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1979 The White Spider The Story of the North Face of the EigerLondon : 1979An impressive mountaineering book by Heinrich Harrer, with illustrations.
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1880 Die Nordpolarreisen Adolf Erik Nordenskjold's 1858 bis 1879Leipzig: 1880The scarce first German edition of this work concerned with the Polar travels of Adolf Erik Nordenskjold.
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1978 Australians in the Frozen South, Living and Working in AntarcticaMelbourne: 1978The first edition of this account of the lives of Australians living in Antarctica, presented by Antarctic meteorologist Kenn Back to a ship captain.
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1903 2 vols Neues Land Vier Jahre in Arktischen GebietenLeipzig : 1903A complete two volume set of this work on Arctic exploration, with maps and plates.
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1897 Cook's Guide to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, Including IcelandLondon: 1897A bright third edition of this guide to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
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1921 The Friendly Arctic The Story of Five Years in Polar RegionsLondon : 1921A first edition copy of The Friendly Arctic, with large folding maps and illustrations.
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1930 The Home of the BlizzardLondon: 1930The second abridged popular edition of Mawson's survey of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, a bright copy.
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1859 Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his CompanionsLondon: 1859An excellent example of the fascinating first edition of the journey to locate John Franklin's lost expedition. Illustrated throughout.
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1922 The Dominion of Canada with Newfoundland and an Excursion to AlaskaLeipzig : 1922A fourth edition copy of this guide to Canada, with folding maps and plans
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1904 The Antarctic RegionsLondon: 1904A bright copy of this second edition survey of the Antarctic regions by Dr Karl Fricker.
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1922 The Dominion of Canada with Newfoundland and an Excursion to AlaskaLeipzig: 1922Fourth revised edition of Karl Baedeker's travel guide to Canada, Newfoundland and Alaska, enclosed in the scarce dust wrapper.
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1921 The Lands of Silence A History of Arctic and Antarctic ExplorationCambridge: 1921The first edition of this uncommon work on early polar exploration with illustrations.
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1821 Letters Written During the Late Voyage of Discovery in the Western Arctic SeaLondon: 1821The first edition of this early nineteenth century work providing a first hand account of a voyage in the Western Arctic sea. Illustrated with four plates.
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1915 Natural History of the Adelie PenguinLondon: 1915A very scarce consecutive volume of the zoology portion of the Natural History Report published following the Terra Nova Expedition, concerning Adelie penguins.
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1959 The Volcanic Rocks of Cape Adare South Victoria LandLondon: 1959British mineralogist and petrologist Walter Campbell Smith's very scarce geological report on the volcanic rocks of the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula, East Antarctica.
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1903 EskimolebenLeipzig : 1903A smart copy of this fascinating German book on the life of Eskimos.
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1932 Alfred Wegeners Letzte GronlandfahrtLeipzig : 1932A smart first German edition of this volume that descibes the last Greenland expedition of Alfred Wegener, with illustrations throughout.
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1897 2 Vols In Nach und Eis Die Norwegische Polarexpedition 1893-1896Leipzig : 1897Two wonderful volumes that detail the famous 1893-1896 Fram polar Expedition, with folding maps and illustrations.
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1966 La Austrialia del Espiritu SantoCambridge: 1966An exceptionally smart two volume set from the Hakluyt Society, providing an account of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros's early seventeenth century navigations.
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1932 The Conquest of the South Pole Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931London : 1932A widely fascinating volume that details the progress of Antarctic exploration with illustrations.
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1930 The Polar BookLondon: 1930A scarce first edition of this vivid work on Polar Exploration, an interesting volume edited by Louis Bernacchi, complete with a folding map.
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1978 The Voyage of the 'Pourquoi-Pas?' The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910London : 1978A smart facsimile copy of the The Voyage of the 'Pourquoi-Pas?' The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910.
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1968 2 Vols Farthest NorthNew York : 1968A scarce two volume set detailing the heroic expedition of two men to the North Pole.
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1934 Watkins' Last ExpeditionLondon: 1934The first edition of this illustrated account of Gino Watkins's fatal East Greenland Expedition, enclosed in the original scarce dust wrapper.
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1953 Return from the PoleLondon: 1953A smart copy of this harrowing account of American explorer Frederick A. Cook's journey back from the polar regions, the first UK edition of this work..
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1958 The Crossing of Antarctica: The Commonwealth Trans-Atlantic Expedition 1955-58London: 1958Vivian Fuchs's account of the Commonwealth Trans-Atlantic expedition, a lovely first edition complete with its unclipped dust wrapper.
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1898 Fridtjof Nansen's Farthest North, Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96London: 1898The second edition of Fridtjof Nansen's popular account of his Polar expedition, an exciting work illustrated throughout, including with a colour folding map.
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1978 Geology of the Antarctic PeninsulaWashington D.C.: 1978A very scarce work on the geology of the Antarctic, an interesting work originally written in Russian by G. E. Grikurov.