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An American’s Grand Slam: A True Adventurer’s Unlikely Journey: Waters, Ryan & Hudson Lindenberger
Waters, Ryan & Hudson Lindenberger An American’s Grand Slam: A True Adventurer’s Unlikely Journey
2022 US 1st, 8vo, pp.194, wraps; new #27805 $16.95
On May 6, 2014 Ryan Waters accomplished something that has not been replicated since. He and fellow explorer Eric Larsen stood atop the geographic North Pole, after 53 grueling days battling their way over an ever-melting sheet of ice that fought against them the entire way. By reaching the pole, th[read more]

Scott Base Antarctica: The Early Years: Webster, Don
Webster, Don Scott Base Antarctica: The Early Years
2018 NZ 1st, 8vo, pp.xiii, 268, 251 color & 113 bw photos, 10 plans, 6 maps, appendices, errata slip, wraps; new #27658 $59.95
For two periods in the early 1960s young science technician Don Webster wintered over in Antarctica, helping build extensions to the New Zealand station at Scott Base. It was barely two years after Sir Edmund Hillary’s record-breaking 1957-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Webster descr[read more]

Weems, John Edward Peary: The Explorer and the Man
1967 Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1st, 8vo, pp.vii, 362, 16 bw photos, map eps, grey cloth; dj fine, cloth fine. #9356 $25.00
First biography of Peary to use his diaries and papers. See AB 101265.[read more]

A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier: Welky, David
Welky, David A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
2017 US 1st, 8vo, pp.viii, 502, map frontis, 35 bw photos, black/white cloth; dj & cloth new #27196 $28.95
In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm “Crocker Land.” Scientists and explorers agreed that the wo[read more]

Nordvestpassasjen 1903 – 1906 [Northwest Passage 1903 – 1906]: Wiiks, Gustav Juel
Wiiks, Gustav Juel Nordvestpassasjen 1903 – 1906 [Northwest Passage 1903 – 1906]
2016 Norway 1st, 8vo, pp.392, 25 color & 88 bw photos, 1 color & 2 bw illus, 2 plans, 4 color & 1 bw maps, illus eps, wraps; new #27540 $34.95
Wiiks (1878-1906) served as Second Engineer on Roald Amundsen’s Northwest Passage expedition, aboard the 45-ton fishing vessel Gjøa. He was the youngest member of the expedition and worked with the magnetic measurements and meteorological observations. Tragically, he became ill in the latter stages [read more]

The Story of the “Quest” will be told by …: Wild, Frank
Wild, Frank The Story of the “Quest” will be told by …
[1923 London 4to, pp.4, 6 bw photos, printed in red and black; new #27309 $15.95
The Quest, under the command of Ernest Shackleton, sailed from St Katherine’s Dock, London on 17 September 1921. This was Shackleton’s 4th Antarctic journey, the purpose of which was ostensibly to circumvent the Antarctic continent, looking for lost sub-polar islands. Shackleton was not well—and he [read more]

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration: Wilkinson, Alec
Wilkinson, Alec The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
2012 US 2nd, 8vo, pp.241, 19 bw photos, grey/white cloth; dj & cloth new #26230 $25.95
In this grand and astonishing tale, Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon. Called by a British military officer “the most original and[read more]

Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Williams, Glyn
Williams, Glyn Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
2010 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xix, 440, 28 color/bw plates, 3 illus, 14 maps, blue cloth; dj & cloth new #25453 $34.95
Williams charts the entire sweep of extraordinary Northwest Passage history, from the tiny, woefully equipped vessels of the first Tudor expeditions to the 20th-century ventures that finally opened the Passage. Using private letteres and journals, Williams exposes the gritty reality behind the ofte[read more]

Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans: Williams, Isobel
signedWilliams, Isobel Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans
2012 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.191, 31 bw photos, 3 maps, wraps; signed, new #25950 $29.95
Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captain’s Scott’s ‘giant worker’ and his ‘invaluable assistant’. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Expeditions of the early 1900s – the ‘Discovery’ expedition of 1901 and the ‘Terra Nova’ expedition in 1910 – distinguishing himself on both. In 1903, wit[read more]

With Scott in the Antarctic: Edward Wilson - Explorer, Naturalist, Artist: Williams, Isobel
signedWilliams, Isobel With Scott in the Antarctic: Edward Wilson - Explorer, Naturalist, Artist
2008 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.320, 28 bw photos, 4 maps, black cloth; signed, dj & cloth new #25110 $39.95
Edward Wilson (1872-1912) accompanied Robert Falcon Scott on both his Antarctic expeditions: as Junior Surgeon and Vertebrate Zoologist on the Discovery Expedition (1901-4) and Chief of Scientific Staff on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13). The only officer with Scott, he formed a close and influ[read more]

William Speirs Bruce: Forgotten Polar Hero: Williams, Isobel & John Dudeney
signedWilliams, Isobel & John Dudeney William Speirs Bruce: Forgotten Polar Hero
2018 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.285, 35 bw photos, 11 maps, appendices, black cloth; signed Williams & Dudeney, dj & cloth new #27371 $39.95
William Speirs Bruce was a Scottish nationalist and naturalist who led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–04) as well as participating in or leading many other polar expeditions from 1892 through to 1919, particularly to Spitsbergen. He is now largely forgotten compared with the ‘great[read more]

Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures from Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition: Wilson, D. M.
Wilson, D. M. Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures from Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition
2009 UK 1st, 4to, pp.168, color frontis, 39 color & 400 bw photos, 37 color & 38 bw illus, 3 plans, 7 color & 5 bw maps, illus eps, blue cloth; dj & cloth new #25841 $79.95
Nimrod Illustrated celebrates the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. This is a remarkable collage of expedition photographs, paintings and ephemera in a deliberate reminiscence of the expedition scrapbooks kept by so many of the expedition [read more]

Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures from Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition: Wilson, D. M.
signedWilson, D. M. Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures from Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition
2009 UK Ltd numbered ed of 150 copies, 4to, pp.168, color frontis, 39 color & 400 bw photos, 37 color & 38 bw illus, 3 plans, 7 color & 5 bw maps, illus eps, page-ribbon, black slipcase & silver dec black cloth; signed, box, slipcase, issued w/o dj, cloth new #26033 $375.00
Nimrod Illustrated celebrates the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. This is a remarkable collage of expedition photographs, paintings and ephemera in a deliberate reminiscence of the expedition scrapbooks kept by so many of the expedition p[read more]

The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Photographs from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition: Wilson, David M.
Wilson, David M. The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Photographs from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition
2011 US 1st, 4to, pp.191, photo frontis, 109 bw photos, sketch, 11 maps, illus eps, grey cloth; dj & cloth new #25850 $34.95
The official expedition photographer for the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13) was Herbert Ponting. However, Ponting was not a member of the Southern Party which set out toward the South Pole. It was under Ponting’s tutelage that Captain Robert Scott learned the intricacies of polar photograp[read more]

Polar Mariner: Beyond the Limits in Antarctica – A Reminiscence of Voyageing for 20 Years to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Antarctic: Woodfield, Capt. Tom
Woodfield, Capt. Tom Polar Mariner: Beyond the Limits in Antarctica – A Reminiscence of Voyageing for 20 Years to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Antarctic
2016 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.v, 202, 34 color & 18 bw photos, 3 color maps, wraps; new #27216 $25.95
Captain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 and 1974. Starting as a Junior Deck Officer he worked for The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey which in 1964 became the British Antarctic Survey. The arts of exploration and survival during his ea[read more]

Blazing Ice: Pioneering the Twenty-First Century’s Road to the South Pole: Wright, John H.
Wright, John H. Blazing Ice: Pioneering the Twenty-First Century’s Road to the South Pole
2012 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xvi, 295, 20 bw photos, 5 maps, blue cloth; dj & cloth new #26231 $29.95
The Antarctic is the last vast terrestrial frontier. Just over a century ago, no one had ever seen the South Pole. Today odd machines and adventure skiers from many nations converge there every summer, arriving from numerous starting points on the Antarctic coast and returning some other way. But[read more]

The Big Nail: The Story of the Cook-Peary Feud: Wright, Theon
Wright, Theon The Big Nail: The Story of the Cook-Peary Feud
1970 Day NY 1st, 8vo, pp.xi, 368, 7 bw photos, 6 maps, appendix, white cloth; dj rubbed, small tear bottom spine, unclipped, vg, cloth tight, fine #15910 $12.95
On September 1, 1909, Dr. Frederick Cook signaled the world that he had reached the North Pole. Only five days later, Robert E. Peary sent a message from the north that he had attained the Pole. Then on September 8th Peary said in a telegram to the New York Times that “Cook’s story should not be tak[read more]

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