Alaska And The Arctic from Old Saratoga Books

NY: World Publishing. Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and worn, edges foxed.. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. First volume in "The New Explorers" series published in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History. Numerous color photographs document this story of Dr. Walker's solitary seven months on the shores of Lake Eva in Alaska. xiv, 226pp, index.… Read more about this item

NY: Wesleyan University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Erasure mark on front free endpaper, . jacket price-clipped and lightly worn.. 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. 0819550183 . xi, 281 pp. Decorative white cloth with green compass design on front boards. 8 full-page and numerous other illustrations by the author. A record of his voyage to Greenland in 1929. Facsimile… Read more about this item

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 2008. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0785227598 . Xix, 360pp, index, many photos. Exciting account of the true story of the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, and its mission under the Arctic ice cap during the Cold War. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: W. W Norton & Co Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops foxed.. 1999. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0393046842 . xxvi, 310pp. Black and white photos and illustrations, acknowledgments, and index. First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-16 expedition and its incredible rescue (from the front jacket flap). Preface by Patrick… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket lightly worn, page tops foxed.. 1976. Hardcover. 0297771647 . xiv, 170pp, photos. The author was one of the few survivors of the ship Karluk, which was crushed in ice during Stefansson's 1913-1918 Arctic expedition. McKinlay and the other surviving crew spent five years marooned before being rescued. ;… Read more about this item

London: Collins. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Owner bookplate on front pastedown . endpaper, engraving of explorer John Franklin and handwritten biography . notes taped to half-title and facing page, yellowed tape outline on front . free endpaper, jacket toned and worn.. 1946. Second Printing. Hardcover. Britain in Pictures number 53. Illustrations and photos in color and in black… Read more about this item

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn.. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding. Photo endpapers. xvi, 422pp, index. Many black and white photos. An account of Byrd's first Antarctic expedition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Julian Messner, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1955. Third Printing. Hardcover. Translated from the Danish by Johan Hambro. Blue cloth binding. The Danish explorer-adventurer relates the story of his rescue of a group of whale hunters near Greenland's Melville Bay. Nice color jacket art. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages .

NY: Taplinger Publishing Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and lightly tattered.. 1966. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0800864018 . Orange cloth. Black and white map and photos, index. A study of the variety of animals that live in North East Greenland written by a six-year member of the Scoresby Sound Expedition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall;… Read more about this item

NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges rubbed, jacket scuffed.. 2005. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0195183681 . Acknowledgments, black and white and color photos, maps, references, reading list, and index. This is an important book by a prominent researcher and highly accomplished author who presents his global arctic view to readers here for the first… Read more about this item

Homer, AK: Anchor Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. 0945771002 . Blue cloth. Acknowledgments, black and white photos, and maps. The oddball characters, the fabulous fly fishing, the bears, and the challenge of the last frontier are all there. (rear jacket panel) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 231 pages .

Kirkland, WA: Wyndham Publications. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2010. First Printing. Hardcover. 0971719268 . Blue paper quarter-bound in yellow paper. Color photos, foreword, black and white photos, indexes, bibliography, and credits. A solid copy of this photo travelogue and social history study. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 320 pages .

NY: McGraw-Hill. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket foxed and worn.. 1957. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Xiv, 372pp. Map endpapers. Blue and black cloth binding. Many black and white photos. Tales of Antarctic exploration. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Pellegrini & Cudahy. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, spine dampstained, owner name on . front free endpaper.. 1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth binding. Chronology, notes, bibliography. Edited and with introduction by Frederick J. Pohl. Cook's account of his 1908 expedition to reach the North Pole. Front and rear jacket flaps laid in. … Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good; Covers rubbed and lightly creased, book waved.. 1977. First Edition. Softcover. 0316338796 . Photos by Marcus Halevi. vii, 152pp. Pre-Exxon Valdez oil spill photo-essay about the Alaskan pipeline and oil drilling. ; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine worn and sunned, boards worn, gift . inscription on verso of front free endpaper.. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth spine with color illustrated paper-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Many illustrations in color and in black and white. A look at geography, people, wildlife and other aspects of… Read more about this item

NY: Harper and Row. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled.. 1964. Hardcover. Black cloth with pictorial paper-covered boards. Many black and white photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages .

Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly soiled and worn.. 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Red printed stapled wraps with bear and berry bucket illustration on front cover. Illustrations and descriptions of various native berries and then lots of recipes to eat them up, including some unusual ones like Lick Dob, Alaska Holiday Conserve, Nuggets… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding. Photo endpapers. viii, 457, xix. Index, maps, bibliography. "This thrilling story is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Some of the anecdotes of the last great gold rush have been told by others, but Pierre Berton is… Read more about this item

NY: Atheneum. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 0689312199 . Inscribed by the late author on the title page with a sketch of an arctic fox below. Evocative black and white illustrations by Hiscock. Index, bibliography. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 135 pages .