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Bacon, Walter.
Highway to The Wilderness: A Sojourn Beyond the Arctic Circle.
New York: Vanguard Press, 1961. 189 pages. Index. Maps. Photographs.
An account of living in Lapland, above the Arctic Circle. A fascinating country
of endless nights and endless days, of cold and warmth, of snow and flowers, of
solitude and men. The author, an English electronics engineer, driven by
restlessness, lived among the Lapps for three years with his wife, a Finnish
dentist, and child. - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in Very good dust
jacket. #10153. $10
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Bertram, Colin.
Arctic and Antarctic, A Prospect of The Polar Regions.
Cambridge: Heffer, 1958. New edition, revised. 123 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
Folding map.
A polar scholar assesses transitional stages of polar history & affairs into
the 'modern phase.' Good hardcover in torn dust jacket. #10300. $22.50
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Bockstoce, John.
Arctic Passages: A Unique
Small-Boat Journey through The Great
Northern Waterway.
New York: Hearst Marine Books, 1991. 1st edition. 256 pages. Index. Maps.
Photographs. Endpaper maps.
Very good cloth-covered hardcover in Very good dust jacket.
ISBN 0688088392. #18076. $27.50
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Borup, George.
A Tenderfoot with Peary.
With a preface by G. W. Melville. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1911. 1st
edition. xvi, 317 pages. Photographs. Folding map.
Fair hardcover. Exlibrary. Bound in library cloth, call number and library name
on spine in gilt, pocket removed inside front cover, stamp on back of
frontispiece and on dedication page, p.279/80 repaired with tape, library
bookplate inside rear cover. Folding map complete, but torn. #10383. $7.50
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Butler, W. F., Major.
The Wild North Land: Being The Story of a Winter Journey, with
Dogs, across Northern North America.
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1874. 4th edition. xi, 358 pages. Illustrations.
Folding map.
Departed in 1872 from the Red River of the North and completed half his journey
in early March 1873 by reaching Lake Athabasca. He followed the Peace River to
the Rocky Mountains and arrived in north British Columbia in late May. He
completed his journey 350 miles farther on 3 June at the frontier station of
Quesnelle on the Frazer River. Decorated cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good.
#10545. $125
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Chapman, Walker, selections and introduction.
Antarctic Conquests: The Great Explorers in Their Own Words.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. 1st printing. xv, 368 pages. Index.
Illustrations.
Good hardcover in worn and torn dust jacket. #20167. $17.50
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Coccola, Raymond De, and Paul King.
Ayorama.
Illustrated by James Houston. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. 316 pages.
Illustrations. Endpaper maps.
A missionary among the Krangmalit along the Central Arctic coast of Canada.
Good hardcover in chipped and worn dust jacket. #10738. $17.50
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Cushman, Joseph A.
New Arctic Foraminifera.
Collected by Capt. R. A. Bartlett from Fox Basin and off the Northeast Coast of
Greenland. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1933. 8 pages. 2 Plates. Smithsonian
Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 89, Number 9.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #10867. $47.50
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De la Croix, Robert.
Conquerors of the Antarctic.
Translated from the French by Edward Fitzgerald. London: Frederick Muller,
1958. x, 268 pages. Photographs.
Good hardcover in frayed, chipped and slightly torn dust jacket. Unrelated
inscription on blank front flyleaf. #22387. $12.50
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Du Chaillu, Paul.
The Land of The Long Night.
Illustrated by M. J. Burns. New York: Scribner's, 1901. xviii, 266, [4] pages.
Advertisements. Frontispiece. Illustrations.
Pictorial cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, bookplate. #13695. $35
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Dugmore, A. A. Radclyffe.
The Romance of the Newfoundland Caribou: An Intimate Account of
the Life of the Reindeer of North America. Illustrated with paintings, drawings
and photographs from life by the author.
Philadelphia & London: Lippincott & Heinemann, 1913. 4to (large book). 191
pages. Illustrations. Folding map.
Decorated hardcover. Very good, slightly worn, some foxing. #13707. $30
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Dunbar, M. J.
Ecological Development in Polar Regions.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1968. 1st printing. viii, 119 pages. Index.
Illustrations. Concepts of Modern Biology Series.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #20544. $17.50
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Elias, E. L.
The Young Folk's Book of Polar Exploration.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1929. 278 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding with pasted-on pictorial label. Edges worn,
label creased and damaged, else fair-good. #16076. $27.50
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Finnie, Richard.
Lure of the North.
Philadelphia: McKay, 1940. 1st edition. Small 4to (medium-large book). 227
pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
Traveling the Western Arctic among Eskimos and whites, from Herschel Island to
King William Island, 1930-1931. Very good hardcover in slight worn and rubbed
dust jacket. #13885. $12.50
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Fox, Lorene K.
Antarctic Icebreakers.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1937. 1st edition. 319 pages. Photographs. Endpaper
photographs. Junior Books.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #13939. $17.50
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