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	BARBER, NOEL White Desert, the True Story of the Commonwealth Trans - Antarctic Expedition - Fuchs & Hillary 's Journey from Shackleton Base to the South Pole , with Photographs London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 5-1/2 x 8 " 1958 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Very Good condition ... Jacket protected in New , non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... dj slight shelf chip , not as noticeable in new sleeve ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... 205 pages ... illustrated with 24 pages of B&W photographs ... Author Noel Barber had a unique view of those adventures of Sir Vivian Fuchs & his companions which 'appealed to all our imaginations and stirred all our hearts" ... When the world's l ast frontier ... the South Pole ... was crossed for the first time in history ... he was there for each act of the drama .... Flown in on an American plane ... Barber was the first Briton to reach the South Pole since Scott's party of five in 1912 .... From the Pole itself, he "watched" Fuchs & Hillary converging on it from the opposite ends of the continent, across the white desert to this strange little white oasis ... He was there when Hillary arrived ... climbing stiffly, with his slig htly shy grin ... from the ridiculously small Ferguson, close to the ring of barrels that marked the Pole ... he was there again for the arrival of Fuchs on January 20,1958 ... the Sno-cats, with their flags flying, coming to rest with a final splutter of engines ... He saw the meeting of Hillary & Fuchs ... talked to the leader whose 900 mile journey from Shackelton Base had just added a new chapter to the great story of Polar Exploration ... He was at the cluster of little yellow huts that was Scott Base when Fuchs completed his 2,220 mile crossing of Antarctica ... the most arduous journey the world has ever known .... He heard Hillary say to Fuchs, "There were times when I didn't think you'd make it, Bunny but I'm glad to have b een proved wrong." ... And he heard Fuchs, who for nearly 25 years had dreamed of it & worked for it, replying, " We did what we set out to do. We never despaired ....." .... In between the tremendous moments of the main adventure, Barber was ac cumulating a store of unforgettable personal experiences .... " Polar exploration ," wrote Mr. Cherry-Garrard, "is at once the cleanest & most isolated way of having a bad time that has yet been devised." .... Barber shared the life of those stat ioned at the Antarctic bases, & though for him, on his second visit, Christmas at the Pole was "a festive affair among old friends", there were other events & occasions less cozy ... monotony, hardship, exhaustion, danger .... He learnt how & why Antarctica is lonely, dead, cruel, inhospitable & irresistable ..... "The man who goes to Antarctica ", writes Barber, "goes because he cannot help it, because the forces which drag him away from hearth and home, into squalor and cold, are too stro ng for him to deny ... I went there to record the adventures of two great men, with no knowledge of what lay in store for me ... I left 3 months later with an idefinable feeling of excitement ... to which is added a secret hope that I hardly dare to admit, even to myself, that one day I may be able to return." .... " The White Desert " ... by Noel Barber ... published by Hodder & Stoughton , London ... 1958 ... First Edition Hardcover in original dustjacket ... Nice Clean condition *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 45.00** [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 693 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	CHOPRA, JUDITH WRIGHT / LESLIE LES SIKE / CAROLANN / DAVID FARR Sub - Arctic Voyage of Aqua Star , the - Something Worth Doing - the First Sailing Yacht to Cross Hudson Bay , Since Henry Hudson's Voyage in 1611 New York: Norton Pub, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. David Farr photos. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 " 0393034461 1995 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edn ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 170 pages ... illustrated with many color photos by David Farr, some full-page, throughout ... The Aqua Star became the first sailing yacht to cross Hudson Bay in 375 years ... since the fateful voyage of Henry Hudson in 1611 .... The international boating community heralded Aqua Star's remarkable achievement .... This is the riveting true story of the real-life adventure ... It documents the discipline & determination that 40-something Leslie & Carolann Sike mustered to lead the ambitious expedition .... Pursued by a heavy spring rain ... the meticulously crafted steel cutter, Aqua Star ... slipped out of Toronto's harbor on the first leg of the voyage to far north Churchill, Manitoba ... on the western shore of the treacherous Hudson Bay ... and famed for its Polar Bear expeditions ... Leslie Sike ... Les ... was an adventurer with a yearning to make the record books ... He had discovered that since Henry Hudson himself, only oceangoing tankers & fishing trawlers had plowed through the bay's wind-whipped & iceberg - studded waters ... He vowed to be the first to sail across the Hudsons bay ... and so began Aqua Star's sub-arctic adventure .... Sike & his wife, Carolann, in their 40s ... whose sailing experiences went no further than dinghy lessons on the Calgary Glenmore Reservoir , plus some correspondence courses on navigation ... dedicated all of their energy & resources to making their unlikely dream come true ... As Sike conpleted the building of the 41-foot steel yacht in the 1980s, Carolann set out to attract media attention & sponsorship ..... They found an eager crew in Gay Currie, an experienced sailor who signed on as a cook ... & David Farr, a non - sailor , who undertook to come along and photograph the voyage ..... Author Judith Wright Chopra, then an editor with Canadian Yachting magazine, first met Leslie & Carolann in 1984, when they began publicizing their exciting expedition .... Throughout the voyage, she kept the magazine'e readers up to date on Aqua Star's progress .... She includes excerpts from the crew's journals ... revealing their fears, emtional highs & lows ... & the technical challenges they struggled to overcome as they & Aqua Star were tested by the grueling conditions of sailing the far north ..... An unusally candid adventure story that records, in the sailors' own words, their exceptional journey ... ice and fug near Hudson Strait , arguments and ill-feeling , but , like true adventurers and pioneers , they pushed on ... until finally, that September, after 108 days and 3600 miles, Aqua Star reached Churchill ... This book captures, in vivid full-color photographs, the remote beauty of Northern Canada .... Fascinating, awe-inspiring, and beautifully documented ... " Something Worth Doing - The Sub-Arctic Voyage of the Aqua Star " ... by Judith Wright Chopra / Les Sike ... published by Norton , New York 1995 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 570 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DUNCAN, DR. ALLAN Medicine , Madams , and Mounties - Stories of a Yukon Doctor 1933 - 1947 Vancouver: Raincoast Pub, 1994. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Photos, Maps. 6 x 9 " 0920417671 1994 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 133 pages ... illustrated with maps & glossy B&W photographs throughout ... " The Yukon in the 1930s was unique ... It resembled no other corner of Canada - indeed no other corner of the world ... Dr. Duncan saw it all, & it is a service to his readers ... as well as to future historians that he has made this vanished era come alive ... Canadian historian & author Pierre Berton says : " Dr. Duncan's book is an important work of social history ... never less than lively " ... adventures in Whitehorse & Dawson Creek , in the 1930s Great Depression and 1940s WWII years ... " Medicine , Madams & Mounties - Stories of a Yukon Doctor 1933 - 1947 " ... by Dr. Allan Duncan 1908 - 1998 ... published by Raincoast Publishing, Vancouver 1994 Softcover ... *. New . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 1041 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FOSTER, NORA R. Intertidal Bivalves - a Guide to the Common Marine Inter Tidal Bivalves of Alaska . . . 106 of the Most Common Alaskan Bivalve Mollusc, Molluscs, and How to Identify Each . . . With Index , & Habitat . . . Illustrated with Drawings , Charts & Map Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Maps, Drawings & Charts. 9 x 11 " 0912006498 Hardcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... Jacket protected in new, clear non-stick Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 152 pages ... illustrated with B&W maps drawings and charts ... From North of Ketchikhan ... to west of Barter Island ... Alaska's waters are home to a diversity of sea creatures ... This book is an introduction and guide to one group of these creatures ... the bivalve molluscs ... Au thor Nora Foster has selected 106 of the most common Alaskan bivalves ... and shows readers how to identify each species through keys and detailed drawings ... The distribution and habitant of the living animals is included ... A glossary provides definitions and descriptions of the features necessary for identification ... This guide also provides a discussion of paralytic shellfish poisoning ... vital information for prople pursing wild seafood ... The only identification guide to bivalves written specifically for Alaska's species ... " Intertidal Bivalves - A Guide to the Common Marine Bivalves of Alaska " ... by Nora R. Foster ... published by the University of Alaska Press ... 1991 First Hardcover in Dustjacket ... **. New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 4424 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HALSEY , DAVID / DIANA LANDAU ED. Magnetic North - a Trek Across Canada - from the Pacific to the Atlantic By Foot, Dogsled and Canoe Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Pub, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos & Maps. 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1" 0888947003 1990 First Edition HARDCOVER in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... * Please note, this last one in the case has very tiny age spot one edge and faint creasing and wear tiny bit of one edge jacket and corner ... not noticeable inside new clear protective sleeve ... Still nice clean gift giving quality * ... 252 pages ... illustrated with B&W Maps + 8 pages Glossy Color Photographs ... David Halsey, author for Quest Magazine and International Wildlife, died while writing the manuscript of this book ... But his lifelong dream ... to go across Canada on a wilderness route ... was fulfilled ... and Sierra Club writer Diana Landau worked with him on the manuscript before his death, and helped to get it ready for publication ... And armchair adventurers and explorers alike are very glad she did ... In this book is the thrilling true tale , told by a gifted writer, of his own trek across the Far North, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the Pacific ... At the age of only 20, he became the first explorer in modern times to go all the way across Canada, travling only by foot, dogsled and canoe ... in a manner of the earlier explorers of past centuries ... From 1977 to 1979 , David made his trek, starting out on the West Coast, from Vancouver ... along with young photographer Peter Souchuk, who had read of his adventure in a magazine, and tracked him down midway through British Columbia and asked to join him to take the photographs ... In the many months that followed, they, and their half-wild coyote dog which had wandered into camp and joined them, trekked the high dusty desert of eastern British Columbia ... on to the rapids of Athabasca River in Alberta ... They travelled by dog sled across frozen Saskatchewan ... and by snowshoe ... went across Lake Winnipeg, in Manitoba ... They stuggled upstream on the Berens River in Ontario ... and set sail in their canoes to cruise with Beluga whales on James Bay ... They were nearly stopped many times ... by severe frostbite ... near fatal canoe spills ... encounters with moose, bear and other wildlife ... They encountered treacherous pack ice, and even more treacherous weather conditions ... But on they went ... surviving a ' haunting ' by a Cree Indian devil " Wetigo " ... and making friends with prospectors, and trappers ... with Chippewa , Cree, and Ojibway natives ... in every part of Canada, who shared cabins and bushcraft, folklore, and hospitality ... David was a gifted writer, and he tells his adventure in such rich detail with dramatic highlights, that make the reader feel part of the journey in the wilderness, and also feel a kinship with those who call it home ... With photos of the expedition, including dog, at Coquihalla Valley in British Columbia ... Lake Mistassni, Quebec, Clearwater , B.C... Moosonee, Ontario ... and more ... plus maps of the areas traversed ... " Magnetic North - A Trek Across Canada " ... by David Halsey with Diana Landau, and photographs by Peter Souchuk ... published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket * Securely packed for Safe Delivery ~ Books shipped Worldwide, since 1965 **. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 6475 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KRAJICK, KEVIN Barren Lands - an Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic - Canadian Diamond Prospecting in the Northwest Territories New York: W H Freeman & Co, 2000. 2000 First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1 -1/2 " 0716740265 2000 Hardcover DJ, 1st Printing ...Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Price-clipped Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 442 pages with index ... In the late 1970s, two men set out on what would prove to be a twenty-year quest to find a North American gem mine, along a fabled path that had defied sixteenth-century explorers, Wild West fortune seekers, and modern geologists ... They are an unlikely pair: Chuck Fipke, a ragged, fanatical prospector with a singular talent for finding sand-size mineral grains, and Stew Blusson, an ultra-tough geologist and helicopter pilot ... Inventive, eccentric, and ruthless, they followed a trail of clues left by predecessors - and a few gems - all the way from backwoods Arkansas up the glaciated high Rockies into the vast and haunted barren lands of Northern Canada ... With a South African geochemist's secret weapon, Fipke and Blusson outwit rivals, including the immense De Beers cartel, and make one of the world's greatest diamond discoveries - setting off a stampede unseen since the Klondike gold rush ... A story of obsession and scientific intrigue, Barren Lands is also an elegy to one of the earth's last great wild places, a starkly beautiful and mysterious land alive with great herds of caribou, primeval rock formations, echoes of a violent past - and endless present danger ... Now that the barrens are "open for business," what is in store for the far north? ... Barren Lands is an unforgettable journey for those who, in the words of a nineteenth century trapper, "want to see that country before it is all gone." ...Prospectors who strike it rich are the stuff dreams are made of ... but this is a true story, not of gold, but of diamond mining, in a region of Canada's Northwest Territories called the Barren Lands. Adventure, combined with danger, disappointment, tragedy, and finally, life-changing luck and riches ... as they became wealthy beyond belief ... others have spent their lives with diamond fever, and haven't been nearly so lucky ... Author Kevin Krajick is a journalist who reported on the Barren Lands diamond rush for Discover magazine ... He writes this real life story with the excitement they felt as they lived it ... " Barren Lands : An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic " ... by Kevin Krajick ... published by W H Freeman & Co, New York ... 2001 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving condition *. New/New . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 6470 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	MCGHEE, ROBERT Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher , the . . . An Elizabethan Adventure - with Maps & Using Archaeological Information Recovered from Baffin Island Toronto: McGill - Queen's University, 2001. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos, Maps. 8-1/2 x 9 " 0773522352 2001 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, clear, non-stick Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 8-1/2 x 9 " size ... weighs nearly 2 pounds ... 198 pages ... illustrated with maps and B&W and color photographs, drawings and illustrations ... Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher ... In this fascinating history ... using reports from the men who participated in the venture, details preserved in the oral histories of the Eskimo , Esquimaux , Inuit people ... and archaeological information recovered from the sites of Elizabethan activities on Baffin Island ... author Robert McGee describes Martin Frobisher 's Arctic voyages and expeditions ... and offers new insights into this audacious undertaking ... How could Frobisher have convinced himself that a narrow bay on the coast of Baffin Island was a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean ? ... What became of the five members of his company who went ashore , and were never seen again ? ... What role, if any, did Frobisher play in the gold-mining fraud ? ... Some of these questions may never be answered but ... despite apparent failure ... Martin Frobisher's ventures launched England's long period of intense exploration and discovery in the new world ... " The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher - An Elizabethan Adventure " ... by Robert McGhee ... published by McGill - Queen's University , Toronto ... in English only ... 2001 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 39.95** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3526] Book number: 4865 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	OLIVE, WILLIAM HENRY TREWOLLA Adventures in the Klondyke , Klondike of 1898 - the Illustrated Olive Diary - ( the Right Way on ) William Henry Trewolla Olive Vancouver: Timberholme Pub, 1998. Limited Edition - First s/c. Soft Cover. Map + Photos. 6 x 9 " 1894254007 Softcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from the publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Gift Giving quality .... 219 pages ... illustrated with map + 16 pages of glossy B&W historical photos ... portrait of William from the 1880s on back ... Limited edition printing ... Born in Truro , England in 1865 ... and apprenticed in woodworking and architecture ... the restless young William Olive emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia in the late 1800's .... He worked on the construction of the new Provincial Parliament Buildings ... at the start of the Goldrush, his employer sent him to the Yukon ... wher4e is expertise in boat building took him ... to build 3 of the famous steamboats that would carry the miners to the goldfields ... The Steamboats Ora, Nora, & Flora .... were built for The Bennett Lake & Klondyke Navigation Company ... After his sojourn in the wild north of the sourdough ... Olive moved to Alberta , with his wife and children , and became a homesteader ... a garage owner ... and a Justice of the Peace ... A man of diverse talents and skills ... perhaps the epitome of the Victorian & Edwardian adventurer ... Olive put pen to paper in the 1930s , to write this fascinating memoir of this days in the Klondyke / Klondike ... He completed this diary in 1939, the year before he died ... Said Olive ... " In writing my memoirs, the object has been to present to the reader the picture that it was in going to the Klondike Gold fields .... after 1898 the trip was, to many, comparatively easy ... The White Pass Railway was being constructed ... which m ade the difficult packing to the Pass much easier ....Those sourdoughs of the fall of '97 & the whole of '98 endured a great deal .... very few could look back & call it a pleasure trip." ... Fascinating to finally get the opportunity to read these Exciting tales , thanks to Olive's granddaughter Evelyn Johnson ... Tales of the Gold Rush, the Yukon, the Klondike .... Chilcoot Pass .... the trip up from Seattle, and in from Skagway ....... with sepia tone Historical photos of Bennett Lake, Miles Canyon, Dawson, & much more .... Cold, hardship, hunger, and, for the lucky few .... wealth beyond imagining .....A fascinating first-person account of this extraordinary period in history, by a man who saw it all .... This is extraordinarly reading , and stays with the reader for a long time ... with a preface by the publisher , and his own poem by the same title ... " The Olive Diary - The Gripping Tale of W.H.T. Olive's Adventures in the Klondyke of 1898 " ... by William Henry Trewolla Olive ... foreword by Evelyn Johnson, the author's granddaughter ... This was later published in hardcover under the title " The Right Way On " ... with a preface by the publisher , and his own poem by the same title ... Limited Edition publication ... " The Olive Diary - Th e Gripping Tale of W.H.T. Olive's Adventures in the Klondyke of 1898 " ... by William Henry Trewolla Olive ... foreword by Evelyn Johnson, the author's granddaughter ... published by Timberholme , Vancouver ... in English only ... 1998 First Edition Softcover *. New/New . USD 26.95** [Appr.: EURO 18 \| £UK 16.25 \| JP¥ 2379] Book number: 535A Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	OLIVE, WILLIAM HENRY TREWOLLA / EVELYN JOHNSON Adventures in the Klondyke , Klondike , of 1898 - Right Way on , the Memoirs of W.H. T. Olive ( the Olive Diaries ) Vancouver: Timberholme Pub, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9-1/4 " 189425404X 1999 First Edition HARDCOVER in DJ ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 327 pages ... illustrated with 16 pages of glossy B&W historical photos ... Photo of historical Klondike on the Front of Jacket , portrait of young William Henry from the 1880s on back ... with introduction from the author's granddaughter, Evelyn Johnson ... Born in Truro , England in 1865 ... and apprenticed in woodworking and architecture ... the restless young William Olive emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia in the late 1800's .... He worked on the construction of the new Provincial Parliament Buildings ... at the start of the Goldrush, his employer sent him to the Yukon ... wher4e is expertise in boat building took him ... to build 3 of the famous steamboats that would carry the miners to the goldfields ... The Steamboats Ora, Nora, & Flora .... were built for The Bennett Lake & Klondyke Navigation Company ... After his sojourn in the wild north of the sourdough ... Olive moved to Alberta , with his wife and children , and became a homesteader ... a garage owner ... and a Justice of the Peace ... A man of diverse talents and skills ... perhaps the epitome of the Victorian & Edwardian adventurer ... Olive put pen to paper in the 1930s , to write this fascinating memoir of this days in the Klondyke / Klondike ... He completed this diary in 1939, the year before he died ... Said Olive ... " In writing my memoirs, the object has been to present to the reader the picture that it was in going to the Klondike Gold fields .... after 1898 the trip was, to many, comparatively easy ... The White Pass Railway was being constructed ... which m ade the difficult packing to the Pass much easier ....Those sourdoughs of the fall of '97 & the whole of '98 endured a great deal .... very few could look back & call it a pleasure trip." ... Fascinating to finally get the opportunity to read these Exciting tales , thanks to Olive's granddaughter Evelyn Johnson ... Tales of the Gold Rush, the Yukon, the Klondike .... Chilcoot Pass .... the trip up from Seattle, and in from Skagway ....... with sepia tone Historical photos of Bennett Lake, Miles Canyon, Dawson, & much more .... Cold, hardship, hunger, and, for the lucky few .... wealth beyond imagining .....A fascinating first-person account of this extraordinary period in history, by a man who saw it all .... This is extraordinarly reading , and stays with the reader for a long time ... with a preface by the publisher , and his own poem by the same title ... " The Olive Diary - The Gripping Tale of W.H.T. Olive's Adventures in the Klondyke of 1898 " ... ( The Olive Diary ) ... by William Henry Trewolla Olive ... foreword by Evelyn Johnson, the author's granddaughter ... This is a handsome book, with gold lettering impressed on the spine, and in an illustrated dustjacket ... " Right Way On - Adventures in the Klondyke / Klondike of 1898 - The Memoirs of W.H.T. Olive " ... published by Timberholme , Vancouver ... in English only ... 1999 First Edition Hardcover in original Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ... *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 535G Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	OLIVE, WILLIAM HENRY TREWOLLA / EVELYN JOHNSON Adventures in the Klondyke , Klondike , of 1898 - Right Way on , the Memoirs of W.H. T. Olive ( the Olive Diaries ) Vancouver: Timberholme Pub, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photographs. 6 x 9 - 1/4 " 189425404X 1999 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 327 pages ... illustrated with 16 pages of glossy B&W historical photos ... Photo of historical Klondike on the Front of Jacket , portrait of young William Henry from the 1880s on back ... with introduction from the author's granddaughter, Evelyn Johnson ... Born in Truro , England in 1865 ... and apprenticed in woodworking and architecture ... the restless young William Olive emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia in the late 1800's .... He worked on the construction of the new Provincial Parliament Buildings ... at the start of the Goldrush, his employer sent him to the Yukon ... wher4e is expertise in boat building took him ... to build 3 of the famous steamboats that would carry the miners to the goldfields ... The Steamboats Ora, Nora, & Flora .... were built for The Bennett Lake & Klondyke Navigation Company ... After his sojourn in the wild north of the sourdough ... Olive moved to Alberta , with his wife and children , and became a homesteader ... a garage owner ... and a Justice of the Peace ... A man of diverse talents and skills ... perhaps the epitome of the Victorian & Edwardian adventurer ... Olive put pen to paper in the 1930s , to write this fascinating memoir of this days in the Klondyke / Klondike ... He completed this diary in 1939, the year before he died ... Said Olive ... " In writing my memoirs, the object has been to present to the reader the picture that it was in going to the Klondike Gold fields .... after 1898 the trip was, to many, comparatively easy ... The White Pass Railway was being constructed ... which m ade the difficult packing to the Pass much easier ....Those sourdoughs of the fall of '97 & the whole of '98 endured a great deal .... very few could look back & call it a pleasure trip." ... Fascinating to finally get the opportunity to read these Exciting tales , thanks to Olive's granddaughter Evelyn Johnson ... Tales of the Gold Rush, the Yukon, the Klondike .... Chilcoot Pass .... the trip up from Seattle, and in from Skagway ....... with sepia tone Historical photos of Bennett Lake, Miles Canyon, Dawson, & much more .... Cold, hardship, hunger, and, for the lucky few .... wealth beyond imagining .....A fascinating first-person account of this extraordinary period in history, by a man who saw it all .... This is extraordinarly reading , and stays with the reader for a long time ... with a preface by the publisher , and his own poem by the same title ... " The Olive Diary - The Gripping Tale of W.H.T. Olive's Adventures in the Klondyke of 1898 " ... ( The Olive Diary ) ... by William Henry Trewolla Olive ... foreword by Evelyn Johnson, the author's granddaughter ... This is a handsome book, with gold lettering impressed on the spine, and in an illustrated dustjacket ... " Right Way On - Adventures in the Klondyke / Klondike of 1898 - The Memoirs of W.H.T. Olive " ... published by Timberholme , Vancouver ... in English only ... 1999 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 535f Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	THOMPSON, ARTHUR R. Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail ( Wolf Creek Classics Series ) Canada: Wolf Creek Classics, 2002. 2002 Printing. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 1" 0968709141 2002 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... STILL SEALED in original Shrinkwrap ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 372 pages ... Arthur Thompson's first-hand account of traveling from Southeast Alaska along the Dalton Trail to the Yukon is a fascinating romp through an impressive landscape ... The Dalton Trail was a relatively obscure route to the gold country ... Thompson weaves a fascinaing tale of marauding wolves, hunting porcupines, and building log cabins ... Wolf Creek Classics is a collection of fascinating books about the north ... These historic works have been reprinted with their original typefaces and layout intact ... Their stories are unique and alive and will appeal to everyone ... " Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail ( Wolf Creek Classics Series ) " ... by Arthur R. Thompson ... published by Wolf Creek Classics, Canada ... in English only ... 2002 Softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 5659 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	TIPPETT , MARIA / CHARLES GIMPEL / TERRY RYAN Between Two Cultures - Charles Gimpel - a Photographer Among the Inuit in the Canadian North 1958 - 1968 Toronto: Penguin, 1994. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Charles Gimpel photographs. 11 x 12 x 1 " 0670852430 1994 Hardcover in DJ, First Canadian Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... minor rub 1" top edge ... very very minor marks to light grey background back glossy cover; not noticeable inside new clear protective sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... This is a great big beautiful book, 11 x 12 " size, weighing nearly 4 pounds ... Chocolate brown textured cloth over boards, with Gold gilt title impressed on spine; in B&W on grey glossy photographic jacket, with matching dove grey endpages ... 178 pages with index, illustrated throughout with more than 127 plates B&W Charles Gimpel photographs ... Note, these are not sepia-tone; they are Black & White ... With Foreword by Terry Ryan, West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, Cape Dorset ... There is a charming photograph of Gimpel in mukluks and parka, struggling with his cameras in the snow, on the back cover ... Inuit miners at the North Rankin nickel mine 1958; Father Trinel at his home in Cape Dorset; Inuit family life; King Watsiak, Cape Dorset 1961; a refrigerator arrives at Lake Harbour, 1958 ; Itilliarjuk Camp, 1960s ; Tasiujakjuak 1962; Inuit people at Pangnirtung, many many more ... These are some of the last photographs of the old way of life of the Inuit people, in the last days before it vanished forever ... During the 1950s and 1960s, British art dealer and amateur photographer Charles Gimpel made several journeys to the Canadian North ... At that time, few people had travelled to the Arctic, or ever seen " Eskimos " , Esquimaux, in their native habitat ... Gimpel was the first European art dealer to recognize the artistic qualities of Inuit sculpture, and had put it on exhibition ... Even though he never enjoyed good health after being interned in concentration camps during the Second World War, and in spit of the fact that he intensely disliked the cold weather ... Charles was fearless about immersing himself into the Inuit culture, and adapting to their often harsh way of life in the frozen north ... He learned to speak their language, Inuktitut, and took his camera along wherever he went, including on some lengthly travels by dog team ... His Inuk guid, Joansie Salomonie, said " Charles would do everything we do " ... By the time of his last visit to Canada's northern region, in the late 1960s, the Inuit world, which had changed very little for countless centuries ... was changing dramatically right before his eyes ... The skidoo was replacing the dog sleds, and the sod huts and snow houses were being phased out for pre-fab wood houses and even styrofoam igloos had popped up on the scene ... Inuit sculpture was avidly sought after by collectors around the world, and Inuit art of all kinds had become a multi-million dollar enterprise ... When he saw clothing, rather than being made in the traditional way, was being imported from 'outside' , or the southern part of Canada, and power boats ahd made their way in ... along with, of all things, refrigerators ... Yes, someone could sell refrigerators to Eskimos ... and did so ... It was then that Charles said goodbye to the Inuit and captured his last frozen north photographs of the people there ... But the legacy he left behind him lives on in his haunting photographs life in a rapidly changing land; of skin tents at Sugluk, Inuit children in small schoolrooms in the 1950s, Frobisher Bay peoples in traditional dress ; native artists drawing, and sculptors carving, in their homes in the early 60s, and more ... Editor Maria Tippet , who lives both in British Columbia Canada, and Cambridge, England, with her husband, British historian Peter Clarke, has compiled a superb selection of Gimpel's photographs in this book ... Sensitive to her subject, Tippet, who has won the Governor General's Award for her " Emily Carr - A Biography " , has lectured on Canadian culture at universities and galleries throughout Canada and abroad ... She is a research associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute, at Cambridge University ... " Between Two Cultures - A Photographer Among the Inuit " ... by Maria Tippett, with Photographs by Charles Gimpel & Foreward by Terry Ryan ... 1994 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... published by Penguin , Toronto ... *. NEW/NEW . USD 129.95** [Appr.: EURO 86.75 \| £UK 78.25 \| JP¥ 11469] Book number: 6492 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WASHBURN, BRADFORD / CHERICI, PETER / DR. FREDERICK COOK Dishonorable Dr. Frederick Cook - Debunking the Notorious Mount Mckinley Hoax Seattle: Mountaineers Pub, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Maps, Photos. 10 x 9 x 3/4 " 0898868041 2001 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... small mark bottom edge , very light shelf bumps edges ... Gift Giving quality ... 185 pages with index, plus illustrated with glossy B&W photographs, maps & large fold-out color map in back of book, intact, never opened ... in dustjacket with B&W photraph of Dr. Frederick A. Cook on the front ... In September 1906, Dr. Cook walked out of the wilderness in Alaska ... to announce that he had just become the first person to climb Mount McKinley ... at 20,320 feet, the highest peak in all of North America ... It was a daring feat ... It was a feat of relentless courage ... It was an enthralling tale of adventure ... But was it true ? ... One of the 20th century's greatest dective stories was begun that day ... one that would lead right up to the mock trial held in 1995 at the University of Alaska ... What sort of a man was Cook ? ... a brilliant charlatan, who was determined to try to cast himself as an American hero ? ... or the man who his supporters belived him to be ? ... as well as the public who wanted him as their hero ? ... Did he or didn't he ? ... The authors of this fascinating book follow the adventures and explorations of the early 20th century ... and give all the scoop on Dr. Cook's infamous career ... from his role in the Edmund Peary doomed expedition to the North Pole in 1892 - 1893 ... to his amazing circumnavigation of McKinley in 1903 ... and tell of his buring desire to be the one to beat Peary to the North Pole ... Decades of investigative work exposing the inconsistencies in Cook's accounts are still denied by loyalists today ... but author Washburn, who himself has summited Mt. McKinley three times , and who made the map that climbers of McKinley use today ... adds his own findings ... and does fascinating side-by-side comparisons of his photographs with those of Cook ... One of the great exciting tales of derring do in the early century ... or an Alaskan myth ? ... You be the judge ! ... " The Dishonorable Dr. Cook - Debunking the Notorious Mount McKinley Hoax " ... by Bradford Washburn & Peter Cherici ... published by Mountaineers Publishing, Seattle Washington ... 2001 Hardcover in Dustjacket First Edition ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 25.95** [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2290] Book number: 5851 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WEBER, RICHARD / MIKHAIL MALAKHOV Polar Attack - from Canada to the North Pole and Back - a Lone Canadian and Russian and Their Daring Round - Trip Ski , Skiing , to the North Pole - By Explorers / Adventureres Richard Weber & Mikhail Malakhov , Arctic Adventure Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1" 0771089023 1996 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 222 pages ... all in English only ... illustrated with 16 pages glossy color photographs , with original 6 page special publisher's press release laid in ... Richard Weber & Mikhail Malakhov set off, on skis, from Ward Hunt Island, in the night of an Arctic February ....... They carried with them all they would need for 4 months of lonely travel ... the first in history to complete ... unsupported ... the 1500 kilometers, from land to the North Pole, and back again ..... Thrilling real-life Arctic adventure of two daring men making a first in the frontiers of world exploration ... " Polar Attack - From Canada to the North Pole and Back - A Lone Canadian and Russian and their Daring Round-Trip ski to the North Pole " ... by Richard Weber & Mikhail Malakhov ... published by McClelland & Stewart , Toronto ... in English only ... 1996 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 22.95** [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 258 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WHITE, PATRICK / REF : BILL WHITE / EDITH IGLAUER Mountie in Mukluks - the Arctic Adventures of Bill White , of the Rcmp Victoria / Vancouver: Harbour Pub, 2004. 2004 Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9 x 1 " 1550173529 2004 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, clear, non-stick mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 248 pages with index ... illustrated with B&W photographs & B&W maps on endpages ...Forward by Edith Iglauer ... In this book, the inspired storytelling of ex-mountie Bill White brings vivid new life to the myth of the old-time redcoat who travelled the Arctic by dogsled, but readers of this book will soon realize they are in the presence of one of the most un-cop-like cops who ever built an igloo ... His cuss-filled accounts of life in the old North, by turns hair-raiising and hilarious, are woven into a moving saga by author Patrick White, placing "Mountie in Mukluks" among the best of Arctic adventure tales ... A rancher, trapper and roustabout who joined the RCMP for his own protection after repeated trouble with the law, Bill took basic taining in Regina, recalling it as a "modified scouts program" enlivened by bouts of wild drinking ... He spent some time wrestling with nude Doukhobor protestors in Saskatchewan before becoming a crewman on the historic RCMP patrol ship St. Roch under the command of the legendary Captain Henry Lawsen, but he hungered for greater adventure and requested a posting ashore upon reaching Cambridge Bay in the Central Arctic ... Adventure he found: "Mountie in Mukluks bristles with accounts of near-death experience under the ice on a frozen river; of an 1800-km dog-sled chase on an arctic murder case and of numerous fascinating encounters with shamans, telepathy and an Inuit way of life that has now vanished from the earth ... "Mounties in Mukluks" is sure to cause a stir among fans of the RCMP and Arctic lore ... A natural rebel who preferred the company of Inuit seal hunters to that of his colleagues, Bill serves up a blistering critique of the white settler way of life and its red-coated enforcers, many of who disdained the traditions of the Inuit while similtaneously relying on them for survival ... " Mountie in Mukluks : The Arctic Adventures of Bill White," by Patrick White ... Published by Harbour Publishing, Victoria, British Columbia ... 2004 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ... *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 6147 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.

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	BARBER, NOEL White Desert, the True Story of the Commonwealth Trans - Antarctic Expedition - Fuchs & Hillary 's Journey from Shackleton Base to the South Pole , with Photographs London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 5-1/2 x 8 " 1958 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Very Good condition ... Jacket protected in New , non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... dj slight shelf chip , not as noticeable in new sleeve ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... 205 pages ... illustrated with 24 pages of B&W photographs ... Author Noel Barber had a unique view of those adventures of Sir Vivian Fuchs & his companions which 'appealed to all our imaginations and stirred all our hearts" ... When the world's l ast frontier ... the South Pole ... was crossed for the first time in history ... he was there for each act of the drama .... Flown in on an American plane ... Barber was the first Briton to reach the South Pole since Scott's party of five in 1912 .... From the Pole itself, he "watched" Fuchs & Hillary converging on it from the opposite ends of the continent, across the white desert to this strange little white oasis ... He was there when Hillary arrived ... climbing stiffly, with his slig htly shy grin ... from the ridiculously small Ferguson, close to the ring of barrels that marked the Pole ... he was there again for the arrival of Fuchs on January 20,1958 ... the Sno-cats, with their flags flying, coming to rest with a final splutter of engines ... He saw the meeting of Hillary & Fuchs ... talked to the leader whose 900 mile journey from Shackelton Base had just added a new chapter to the great story of Polar Exploration ... He was at the cluster of little yellow huts that was Scott Base when Fuchs completed his 2,220 mile crossing of Antarctica ... the most arduous journey the world has ever known .... He heard Hillary say to Fuchs, "There were times when I didn't think you'd make it, Bunny but I'm glad to have b een proved wrong." ... And he heard Fuchs, who for nearly 25 years had dreamed of it & worked for it, replying, " We did what we set out to do. We never despaired ....." .... In between the tremendous moments of the main adventure, Barber was ac cumulating a store of unforgettable personal experiences .... " Polar exploration ," wrote Mr. Cherry-Garrard, "is at once the cleanest & most isolated way of having a bad time that has yet been devised." .... Barber shared the life of those stat ioned at the Antarctic bases, & though for him, on his second visit, Christmas at the Pole was "a festive affair among old friends", there were other events & occasions less cozy ... monotony, hardship, exhaustion, danger .... He learnt how & why Antarctica is lonely, dead, cruel, inhospitable & irresistable ..... "The man who goes to Antarctica ", writes Barber, "goes because he cannot help it, because the forces which drag him away from hearth and home, into squalor and cold, are too stro ng for him to deny ... I went there to record the adventures of two great men, with no knowledge of what lay in store for me ... I left 3 months later with an idefinable feeling of excitement ... to which is added a secret hope that I hardly dare to admit, even to myself, that one day I may be able to return." .... " The White Desert " ... by Noel Barber ... published by Hodder & Stoughton , London ... 1958 ... First Edition Hardcover in original dustjacket ... Nice Clean condition *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 45.00** [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 693 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	CHOPRA, JUDITH WRIGHT / LESLIE LES SIKE / CAROLANN / DAVID FARR Sub - Arctic Voyage of Aqua Star , the - Something Worth Doing - the First Sailing Yacht to Cross Hudson Bay , Since Henry Hudson's Voyage in 1611 New York: Norton Pub, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. David Farr photos. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 " 0393034461 1995 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edn ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 170 pages ... illustrated with many color photos by David Farr, some full-page, throughout ... The Aqua Star became the first sailing yacht to cross Hudson Bay in 375 years ... since the fateful voyage of Henry Hudson in 1611 .... The international boating community heralded Aqua Star's remarkable achievement .... This is the riveting true story of the real-life adventure ... It documents the discipline & determination that 40-something Leslie & Carolann Sike mustered to lead the ambitious expedition .... Pursued by a heavy spring rain ... the meticulously crafted steel cutter, Aqua Star ... slipped out of Toronto's harbor on the first leg of the voyage to far north Churchill, Manitoba ... on the western shore of the treacherous Hudson Bay ... and famed for its Polar Bear expeditions ... Leslie Sike ... Les ... was an adventurer with a yearning to make the record books ... He had discovered that since Henry Hudson himself, only oceangoing tankers & fishing trawlers had plowed through the bay's wind-whipped & iceberg - studded waters ... He vowed to be the first to sail across the Hudsons bay ... and so began Aqua Star's sub-arctic adventure .... Sike & his wife, Carolann, in their 40s ... whose sailing experiences went no further than dinghy lessons on the Calgary Glenmore Reservoir , plus some correspondence courses on navigation ... dedicated all of their energy & resources to making their unlikely dream come true ... As Sike conpleted the building of the 41-foot steel yacht in the 1980s, Carolann set out to attract media attention & sponsorship ..... They found an eager crew in Gay Currie, an experienced sailor who signed on as a cook ... & David Farr, a non - sailor , who undertook to come along and photograph the voyage ..... Author Judith Wright Chopra, then an editor with Canadian Yachting magazine, first met Leslie & Carolann in 1984, when they began publicizing their exciting expedition .... Throughout the voyage, she kept the magazine'e readers up to date on Aqua Star's progress .... She includes excerpts from the crew's journals ... revealing their fears, emtional highs & lows ... & the technical challenges they struggled to overcome as they & Aqua Star were tested by the grueling conditions of sailing the far north ..... An unusally candid adventure story that records, in the sailors' own words, their exceptional journey ... ice and fug near Hudson Strait , arguments and ill-feeling , but , like true adventurers and pioneers , they pushed on ... until finally, that September, after 108 days and 3600 miles, Aqua Star reached Churchill ... This book captures, in vivid full-color photographs, the remote beauty of Northern Canada .... Fascinating, awe-inspiring, and beautifully documented ... " Something Worth Doing - The Sub-Arctic Voyage of the Aqua Star " ... by Judith Wright Chopra / Les Sike ... published by Norton , New York 1995 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 570 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	DUNCAN, DR. ALLAN Medicine , Madams , and Mounties - Stories of a Yukon Doctor 1933 - 1947 Vancouver: Raincoast Pub, 1994. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Photos, Maps. 6 x 9 " 0920417671 1994 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 133 pages ... illustrated with maps & glossy B&W photographs throughout ... " The Yukon in the 1930s was unique ... It resembled no other corner of Canada - indeed no other corner of the world ... Dr. Duncan saw it all, & it is a service to his readers ... as well as to future historians that he has made this vanished era come alive ... Canadian historian & author Pierre Berton says : " Dr. Duncan's book is an important work of social history ... never less than lively " ... adventures in Whitehorse & Dawson Creek , in the 1930s Great Depression and 1940s WWII years ... " Medicine , Madams & Mounties - Stories of a Yukon Doctor 1933 - 1947 " ... by Dr. Allan Duncan 1908 - 1998 ... published by Raincoast Publishing, Vancouver 1994 Softcover ... *. New . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 1041 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	FOSTER, NORA R. Intertidal Bivalves - a Guide to the Common Marine Inter Tidal Bivalves of Alaska . . . 106 of the Most Common Alaskan Bivalve Mollusc, Molluscs, and How to Identify Each . . . With Index , & Habitat . . . Illustrated with Drawings , Charts & Map Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Maps, Drawings & Charts. 9 x 11 " 0912006498 Hardcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... Jacket protected in new, clear non-stick Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 152 pages ... illustrated with B&W maps drawings and charts ... From North of Ketchikhan ... to west of Barter Island ... Alaska's waters are home to a diversity of sea creatures ... This book is an introduction and guide to one group of these creatures ... the bivalve molluscs ... Au thor Nora Foster has selected 106 of the most common Alaskan bivalves ... and shows readers how to identify each species through keys and detailed drawings ... The distribution and habitant of the living animals is included ... A glossary provides definitions and descriptions of the features necessary for identification ... This guide also provides a discussion of paralytic shellfish poisoning ... vital information for prople pursing wild seafood ... The only identification guide to bivalves written specifically for Alaska's species ... " Intertidal Bivalves - A Guide to the Common Marine Bivalves of Alaska " ... by Nora R. Foster ... published by the University of Alaska Press ... 1991 First Hardcover in Dustjacket ... **. New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 4424 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HALSEY , DAVID / DIANA LANDAU ED. Magnetic North - a Trek Across Canada - from the Pacific to the Atlantic By Foot, Dogsled and Canoe Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Pub, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos & Maps. 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1" 0888947003 1990 First Edition HARDCOVER in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... * Please note, this last one in the case has very tiny age spot one edge and faint creasing and wear tiny bit of one edge jacket and corner ... not noticeable inside new clear protective sleeve ... Still nice clean gift giving quality * ... 252 pages ... illustrated with B&W Maps + 8 pages Glossy Color Photographs ... David Halsey, author for Quest Magazine and International Wildlife, died while writing the manuscript of this book ... But his lifelong dream ... to go across Canada on a wilderness route ... was fulfilled ... and Sierra Club writer Diana Landau worked with him on the manuscript before his death, and helped to get it ready for publication ... And armchair adventurers and explorers alike are very glad she did ... In this book is the thrilling true tale , told by a gifted writer, of his own trek across the Far North, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the Pacific ... At the age of only 20, he became the first explorer in modern times to go all the way across Canada, travling only by foot, dogsled and canoe ... in a manner of the earlier explorers of past centuries ... From 1977 to 1979 , David made his trek, starting out on the West Coast, from Vancouver ... along with young photographer Peter Souchuk, who had read of his adventure in a magazine, and tracked him down midway through British Columbia and asked to join him to take the photographs ... In the many months that followed, they, and their half-wild coyote dog which had wandered into camp and joined them, trekked the high dusty desert of eastern British Columbia ... on to the rapids of Athabasca River in Alberta ... They travelled by dog sled across frozen Saskatchewan ... and by snowshoe ... went across Lake Winnipeg, in Manitoba ... They stuggled upstream on the Berens River in Ontario ... and set sail in their canoes to cruise with Beluga whales on James Bay ... They were nearly stopped many times ... by severe frostbite ... near fatal canoe spills ... encounters with moose, bear and other wildlife ... They encountered treacherous pack ice, and even more treacherous weather conditions ... But on they went ... surviving a ' haunting ' by a Cree Indian devil " Wetigo " ... and making friends with prospectors, and trappers ... with Chippewa , Cree, and Ojibway natives ... in every part of Canada, who shared cabins and bushcraft, folklore, and hospitality ... David was a gifted writer, and he tells his adventure in such rich detail with dramatic highlights, that make the reader feel part of the journey in the wilderness, and also feel a kinship with those who call it home ... With photos of the expedition, including dog, at Coquihalla Valley in British Columbia ... Lake Mistassni, Quebec, Clearwater , B.C... Moosonee, Ontario ... and more ... plus maps of the areas traversed ... " Magnetic North - A Trek Across Canada " ... by David Halsey with Diana Landau, and photographs by Peter Souchuk ... published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket * Securely packed for Safe Delivery ~ Books shipped Worldwide, since 1965 **. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 6475 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KRAJICK, KEVIN Barren Lands - an Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic - Canadian Diamond Prospecting in the Northwest Territories New York: W H Freeman & Co, 2000. 2000 First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1 -1/2 " 0716740265 2000 Hardcover DJ, 1st Printing ...Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Price-clipped Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 442 pages with index ... In the late 1970s, two men set out on what would prove to be a twenty-year quest to find a North American gem mine, along a fabled path that had defied sixteenth-century explorers, Wild West fortune seekers, and modern geologists ... They are an unlikely pair: Chuck Fipke, a ragged, fanatical prospector with a singular talent for finding sand-size mineral grains, and Stew Blusson, an ultra-tough geologist and helicopter pilot ... Inventive, eccentric, and ruthless, they followed a trail of clues left by predecessors - and a few gems - all the way from backwoods Arkansas up the glaciated high Rockies into the vast and haunted barren lands of Northern Canada ... With a South African geochemist's secret weapon, Fipke and Blusson outwit rivals, including the immense De Beers cartel, and make one of the world's greatest diamond discoveries - setting off a stampede unseen since the Klondike gold rush ... A story of obsession and scientific intrigue, Barren Lands is also an elegy to one of the earth's last great wild places, a starkly beautiful and mysterious land alive with great herds of caribou, primeval rock formations, echoes of a violent past - and endless present danger ... Now that the barrens are "open for business," what is in store for the far north? ... Barren Lands is an unforgettable journey for those who, in the words of a nineteenth century trapper, "want to see that country before it is all gone." ...Prospectors who strike it rich are the stuff dreams are made of ... but this is a true story, not of gold, but of diamond mining, in a region of Canada's Northwest Territories called the Barren Lands. Adventure, combined with danger, disappointment, tragedy, and finally, life-changing luck and riches ... as they became wealthy beyond belief ... others have spent their lives with diamond fever, and haven't been nearly so lucky ... Author Kevin Krajick is a journalist who reported on the Barren Lands diamond rush for Discover magazine ... He writes this real life story with the excitement they felt as they lived it ... " Barren Lands : An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic " ... by Kevin Krajick ... published by W H Freeman & Co, New York ... 2001 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving condition *. New/New . USD 49.95** [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4408] Book number: 6470 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	MCGHEE, ROBERT Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher , the . . . An Elizabethan Adventure - with Maps & Using Archaeological Information Recovered from Baffin Island Toronto: McGill - Queen's University, 2001. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos, Maps. 8-1/2 x 9 " 0773522352 2001 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, clear, non-stick Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 8-1/2 x 9 " size ... weighs nearly 2 pounds ... 198 pages ... illustrated with maps and B&W and color photographs, drawings and illustrations ... Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher ... In this fascinating history ... using reports from the men who participated in the venture, details preserved in the oral histories of the Eskimo , Esquimaux , Inuit people ... and archaeological information recovered from the sites of Elizabethan activities on Baffin Island ... author Robert McGee describes Martin Frobisher 's Arctic voyages and expeditions ... and offers new insights into this audacious undertaking ... How could Frobisher have convinced himself that a narrow bay on the coast of Baffin Island was a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean ? ... What became of the five members of his company who went ashore , and were never seen again ? ... What role, if any, did Frobisher play in the gold-mining fraud ? ... Some of these questions may never be answered but ... despite apparent failure ... Martin Frobisher's ventures launched England's long period of intense exploration and discovery in the new world ... " The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher - An Elizabethan Adventure " ... by Robert McGhee ... published by McGill - Queen's University , Toronto ... in English only ... 2001 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 39.95** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3526] Book number: 4865 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	OLIVE, WILLIAM HENRY TREWOLLA Adventures in the Klondyke , Klondike of 1898 - the Illustrated Olive Diary - ( the Right Way on ) William Henry Trewolla Olive Vancouver: Timberholme Pub, 1998. Limited Edition - First s/c. Soft Cover. Map + Photos. 6 x 9 " 1894254007 Softcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from the publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Gift Giving quality .... 219 pages ... illustrated with map + 16 pages of glossy B&W historical photos ... portrait of William from the 1880s on back ... Limited edition printing ... Born in Truro , England in 1865 ... and apprenticed in woodworking and architecture ... the restless young William Olive emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia in the late 1800's .... He worked on the construction of the new Provincial Parliament Buildings ... at the start of the Goldrush, his employer sent him to the Yukon ... wher4e is expertise in boat building took him ... to build 3 of the famous steamboats that would carry the miners to the goldfields ... The Steamboats Ora, Nora, & Flora .... were built for The Bennett Lake & Klondyke Navigation Company ... After his sojourn in the wild north of the sourdough ... Olive moved to Alberta , with his wife and children , and became a homesteader ... a garage owner ... and a Justice of the Peace ... A man of diverse talents and skills ... perhaps the epitome of the Victorian & Edwardian adventurer ... Olive put pen to paper in the 1930s , to write this fascinating memoir of this days in the Klondyke / Klondike ... He completed this diary in 1939, the year before he died ... Said Olive ... " In writing my memoirs, the object has been to present to the reader the picture that it was in going to the Klondike Gold fields .... after 1898 the trip was, to many, comparatively easy ... The White Pass Railway was being constructed ... which m ade the difficult packing to the Pass much easier ....Those sourdoughs of the fall of '97 & the whole of '98 endured a great deal .... very few could look back & call it a pleasure trip." ... Fascinating to finally get the opportunity to read these Exciting tales , thanks to Olive's granddaughter Evelyn Johnson ... Tales of the Gold Rush, the Yukon, the Klondike .... Chilcoot Pass .... the trip up from Seattle, and in from Skagway ....... with sepia tone Historical photos of Bennett Lake, Miles Canyon, Dawson, & much more .... Cold, hardship, hunger, and, for the lucky few .... wealth beyond imagining .....A fascinating first-person account of this extraordinary period in history, by a man who saw it all .... This is extraordinarly reading , and stays with the reader for a long time ... with a preface by the publisher , and his own poem by the same title ... " The Olive Diary - The Gripping Tale of W.H.T. Olive's Adventures in the Klondyke of 1898 " ... by William Henry Trewolla Olive ... foreword by Evelyn Johnson, the author's granddaughter ... This was later published in hardcover under the title " The Right Way On " ... with a preface by the publisher , and his own poem by the same title ... Limited Edition publication ... " The Olive Diary - Th e Gripping Tale of W.H.T. Olive's Adventures in the Klondyke of 1898 " ... by William Henry Trewolla Olive ... foreword by Evelyn Johnson, the author's granddaughter ... published by Timberholme , Vancouver ... in English only ... 1998 First Edition Softcover *. New/New . USD 26.95** [Appr.: EURO 18 \| £UK 16.25 \| JP¥ 2379] Book number: 535A Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	OLIVE, WILLIAM HENRY TREWOLLA / EVELYN JOHNSON Adventures in the Klondyke , Klondike , of 1898 - Right Way on , the Memoirs of W.H. T. Olive ( the Olive Diaries ) Vancouver: Timberholme Pub, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9-1/4 " 189425404X 1999 First Edition HARDCOVER in DJ ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 327 pages ... illustrated with 16 pages of glossy B&W historical photos ... Photo of historical Klondike on the Front of Jacket , portrait of young William Henry from the 1880s on back ... with introduction from the author's granddaughter, Evelyn Johnson ... Born in Truro , England in 1865 ... and apprenticed in woodworking and architecture ... the restless young William Olive emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia in the late 1800's .... He worked on the construction of the new Provincial Parliament Buildings ... at the start of the Goldrush, his employer sent him to the Yukon ... wher4e is expertise in boat building took him ... to build 3 of the famous steamboats that would carry the miners to the goldfields ... The Steamboats Ora, Nora, & Flora .... were built for The Bennett Lake & Klondyke Navigation Company ... After his sojourn in the wild north of the sourdough ... Olive moved to Alberta , with his wife and children , and became a homesteader ... a garage owner ... and a Justice of the Peace ... A man of diverse talents and skills ... perhaps the epitome of the Victorian & Edwardian adventurer ... Olive put pen to paper in the 1930s , to write this fascinating memoir of this days in the Klondyke / Klondike ... He completed this diary in 1939, the year before he died ... Said Olive ... " In writing my memoirs, the object has been to present to the reader the picture that it was in going to the Klondike Gold fields .... after 1898 the trip was, to many, comparatively easy ... The White Pass Railway was being constructed ... which m ade the difficult packing to the Pass much easier ....Those sourdoughs of the fall of '97 & the whole of '98 endured a great deal .... very few could look back & call it a pleasure trip." ... Fascinating to finally get the opportunity to read these Exciting tales , thanks to Olive's granddaughter Evelyn Johnson ... Tales of the Gold Rush, the Yukon, the Klondike .... Chilcoot Pass .... the trip up from Seattle, and in from Skagway ....... with sepia tone Historical photos of Bennett Lake, Miles Canyon, Dawson, & much more .... Cold, hardship, hunger, and, for the lucky few .... wealth beyond imagining .....A fascinating first-person account of this extraordinary period in history, by a man who saw it all .... This is extraordinarly reading , and stays with the reader for a long time ... with a preface by the publisher , and his own poem by the same title ... " The Olive Diary - The Gripping Tale of W.H.T. Olive's Adventures in the Klondyke of 1898 " ... ( The Olive Diary ) ... by William Henry Trewolla Olive ... foreword by Evelyn Johnson, the author's granddaughter ... This is a handsome book, with gold lettering impressed on the spine, and in an illustrated dustjacket ... " Right Way On - Adventures in the Klondyke / Klondike of 1898 - The Memoirs of W.H.T. Olive " ... published by Timberholme , Vancouver ... in English only ... 1999 First Edition Hardcover in original Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ... *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 535G Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	OLIVE, WILLIAM HENRY TREWOLLA / EVELYN JOHNSON Adventures in the Klondyke , Klondike , of 1898 - Right Way on , the Memoirs of W.H. T. Olive ( the Olive Diaries ) Vancouver: Timberholme Pub, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photographs. 6 x 9 - 1/4 " 189425404X 1999 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 327 pages ... illustrated with 16 pages of glossy B&W historical photos ... Photo of historical Klondike on the Front of Jacket , portrait of young William Henry from the 1880s on back ... with introduction from the author's granddaughter, Evelyn Johnson ... Born in Truro , England in 1865 ... and apprenticed in woodworking and architecture ... the restless young William Olive emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia in the late 1800's .... He worked on the construction of the new Provincial Parliament Buildings ... at the start of the Goldrush, his employer sent him to the Yukon ... wher4e is expertise in boat building took him ... to build 3 of the famous steamboats that would carry the miners to the goldfields ... The Steamboats Ora, Nora, & Flora .... were built for The Bennett Lake & Klondyke Navigation Company ... After his sojourn in the wild north of the sourdough ... Olive moved to Alberta , with his wife and children , and became a homesteader ... a garage owner ... and a Justice of the Peace ... A man of diverse talents and skills ... perhaps the epitome of the Victorian & Edwardian adventurer ... Olive put pen to paper in the 1930s , to write this fascinating memoir of this days in the Klondyke / Klondike ... He completed this diary in 1939, the year before he died ... Said Olive ... " In writing my memoirs, the object has been to present to the reader the picture that it was in going to the Klondike Gold fields .... after 1898 the trip was, to many, comparatively easy ... The White Pass Railway was being constructed ... which m ade the difficult packing to the Pass much easier ....Those sourdoughs of the fall of '97 & the whole of '98 endured a great deal .... very few could look back & call it a pleasure trip." ... Fascinating to finally get the opportunity to read these Exciting tales , thanks to Olive's granddaughter Evelyn Johnson ... Tales of the Gold Rush, the Yukon, the Klondike .... Chilcoot Pass .... the trip up from Seattle, and in from Skagway ....... with sepia tone Historical photos of Bennett Lake, Miles Canyon, Dawson, & much more .... Cold, hardship, hunger, and, for the lucky few .... wealth beyond imagining .....A fascinating first-person account of this extraordinary period in history, by a man who saw it all .... This is extraordinarly reading , and stays with the reader for a long time ... with a preface by the publisher , and his own poem by the same title ... " The Olive Diary - The Gripping Tale of W.H.T. Olive's Adventures in the Klondyke of 1898 " ... ( The Olive Diary ) ... by William Henry Trewolla Olive ... foreword by Evelyn Johnson, the author's granddaughter ... This is a handsome book, with gold lettering impressed on the spine, and in an illustrated dustjacket ... " Right Way On - Adventures in the Klondyke / Klondike of 1898 - The Memoirs of W.H.T. Olive " ... published by Timberholme , Vancouver ... in English only ... 1999 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 535f Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	THOMPSON, ARTHUR R. Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail ( Wolf Creek Classics Series ) Canada: Wolf Creek Classics, 2002. 2002 Printing. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 1" 0968709141 2002 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... STILL SEALED in original Shrinkwrap ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 372 pages ... Arthur Thompson's first-hand account of traveling from Southeast Alaska along the Dalton Trail to the Yukon is a fascinating romp through an impressive landscape ... The Dalton Trail was a relatively obscure route to the gold country ... Thompson weaves a fascinaing tale of marauding wolves, hunting porcupines, and building log cabins ... Wolf Creek Classics is a collection of fascinating books about the north ... These historic works have been reprinted with their original typefaces and layout intact ... Their stories are unique and alive and will appeal to everyone ... " Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail ( Wolf Creek Classics Series ) " ... by Arthur R. Thompson ... published by Wolf Creek Classics, Canada ... in English only ... 2002 Softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 5659 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	TIPPETT , MARIA / CHARLES GIMPEL / TERRY RYAN Between Two Cultures - Charles Gimpel - a Photographer Among the Inuit in the Canadian North 1958 - 1968 Toronto: Penguin, 1994. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Charles Gimpel photographs. 11 x 12 x 1 " 0670852430 1994 Hardcover in DJ, First Canadian Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... minor rub 1" top edge ... very very minor marks to light grey background back glossy cover; not noticeable inside new clear protective sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... This is a great big beautiful book, 11 x 12 " size, weighing nearly 4 pounds ... Chocolate brown textured cloth over boards, with Gold gilt title impressed on spine; in B&W on grey glossy photographic jacket, with matching dove grey endpages ... 178 pages with index, illustrated throughout with more than 127 plates B&W Charles Gimpel photographs ... Note, these are not sepia-tone; they are Black & White ... With Foreword by Terry Ryan, West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, Cape Dorset ... There is a charming photograph of Gimpel in mukluks and parka, struggling with his cameras in the snow, on the back cover ... Inuit miners at the North Rankin nickel mine 1958; Father Trinel at his home in Cape Dorset; Inuit family life; King Watsiak, Cape Dorset 1961; a refrigerator arrives at Lake Harbour, 1958 ; Itilliarjuk Camp, 1960s ; Tasiujakjuak 1962; Inuit people at Pangnirtung, many many more ... These are some of the last photographs of the old way of life of the Inuit people, in the last days before it vanished forever ... During the 1950s and 1960s, British art dealer and amateur photographer Charles Gimpel made several journeys to the Canadian North ... At that time, few people had travelled to the Arctic, or ever seen " Eskimos " , Esquimaux, in their native habitat ... Gimpel was the first European art dealer to recognize the artistic qualities of Inuit sculpture, and had put it on exhibition ... Even though he never enjoyed good health after being interned in concentration camps during the Second World War, and in spit of the fact that he intensely disliked the cold weather ... Charles was fearless about immersing himself into the Inuit culture, and adapting to their often harsh way of life in the frozen north ... He learned to speak their language, Inuktitut, and took his camera along wherever he went, including on some lengthly travels by dog team ... His Inuk guid, Joansie Salomonie, said " Charles would do everything we do " ... By the time of his last visit to Canada's northern region, in the late 1960s, the Inuit world, which had changed very little for countless centuries ... was changing dramatically right before his eyes ... The skidoo was replacing the dog sleds, and the sod huts and snow houses were being phased out for pre-fab wood houses and even styrofoam igloos had popped up on the scene ... Inuit sculpture was avidly sought after by collectors around the world, and Inuit art of all kinds had become a multi-million dollar enterprise ... When he saw clothing, rather than being made in the traditional way, was being imported from 'outside' , or the southern part of Canada, and power boats ahd made their way in ... along with, of all things, refrigerators ... Yes, someone could sell refrigerators to Eskimos ... and did so ... It was then that Charles said goodbye to the Inuit and captured his last frozen north photographs of the people there ... But the legacy he left behind him lives on in his haunting photographs life in a rapidly changing land; of skin tents at Sugluk, Inuit children in small schoolrooms in the 1950s, Frobisher Bay peoples in traditional dress ; native artists drawing, and sculptors carving, in their homes in the early 60s, and more ... Editor Maria Tippet , who lives both in British Columbia Canada, and Cambridge, England, with her husband, British historian Peter Clarke, has compiled a superb selection of Gimpel's photographs in this book ... Sensitive to her subject, Tippet, who has won the Governor General's Award for her " Emily Carr - A Biography " , has lectured on Canadian culture at universities and galleries throughout Canada and abroad ... She is a research associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute, at Cambridge University ... " Between Two Cultures - A Photographer Among the Inuit " ... by Maria Tippett, with Photographs by Charles Gimpel & Foreward by Terry Ryan ... 1994 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... published by Penguin , Toronto ... *. NEW/NEW . USD 129.95** [Appr.: EURO 86.75 \| £UK 78.25 \| JP¥ 11469] Book number: 6492 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WASHBURN, BRADFORD / CHERICI, PETER / DR. FREDERICK COOK Dishonorable Dr. Frederick Cook - Debunking the Notorious Mount Mckinley Hoax Seattle: Mountaineers Pub, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Maps, Photos. 10 x 9 x 3/4 " 0898868041 2001 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... small mark bottom edge , very light shelf bumps edges ... Gift Giving quality ... 185 pages with index, plus illustrated with glossy B&W photographs, maps & large fold-out color map in back of book, intact, never opened ... in dustjacket with B&W photraph of Dr. Frederick A. Cook on the front ... In September 1906, Dr. Cook walked out of the wilderness in Alaska ... to announce that he had just become the first person to climb Mount McKinley ... at 20,320 feet, the highest peak in all of North America ... It was a daring feat ... It was a feat of relentless courage ... It was an enthralling tale of adventure ... But was it true ? ... One of the 20th century's greatest dective stories was begun that day ... one that would lead right up to the mock trial held in 1995 at the University of Alaska ... What sort of a man was Cook ? ... a brilliant charlatan, who was determined to try to cast himself as an American hero ? ... or the man who his supporters belived him to be ? ... as well as the public who wanted him as their hero ? ... Did he or didn't he ? ... The authors of this fascinating book follow the adventures and explorations of the early 20th century ... and give all the scoop on Dr. Cook's infamous career ... from his role in the Edmund Peary doomed expedition to the North Pole in 1892 - 1893 ... to his amazing circumnavigation of McKinley in 1903 ... and tell of his buring desire to be the one to beat Peary to the North Pole ... Decades of investigative work exposing the inconsistencies in Cook's accounts are still denied by loyalists today ... but author Washburn, who himself has summited Mt. McKinley three times , and who made the map that climbers of McKinley use today ... adds his own findings ... and does fascinating side-by-side comparisons of his photographs with those of Cook ... One of the great exciting tales of derring do in the early century ... or an Alaskan myth ? ... You be the judge ! ... " The Dishonorable Dr. Cook - Debunking the Notorious Mount McKinley Hoax " ... by Bradford Washburn & Peter Cherici ... published by Mountaineers Publishing, Seattle Washington ... 2001 Hardcover in Dustjacket First Edition ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 25.95** [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2290] Book number: 5851 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WEBER, RICHARD / MIKHAIL MALAKHOV Polar Attack - from Canada to the North Pole and Back - a Lone Canadian and Russian and Their Daring Round - Trip Ski , Skiing , to the North Pole - By Explorers / Adventureres Richard Weber & Mikhail Malakhov , Arctic Adventure Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1" 0771089023 1996 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 222 pages ... all in English only ... illustrated with 16 pages glossy color photographs , with original 6 page special publisher's press release laid in ... Richard Weber & Mikhail Malakhov set off, on skis, from Ward Hunt Island, in the night of an Arctic February ....... They carried with them all they would need for 4 months of lonely travel ... the first in history to complete ... unsupported ... the 1500 kilometers, from land to the North Pole, and back again ..... Thrilling real-life Arctic adventure of two daring men making a first in the frontiers of world exploration ... " Polar Attack - From Canada to the North Pole and Back - A Lone Canadian and Russian and their Daring Round-Trip ski to the North Pole " ... by Richard Weber & Mikhail Malakhov ... published by McClelland & Stewart , Toronto ... in English only ... 1996 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 22.95** [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 258 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WHITE, PATRICK / REF : BILL WHITE / EDITH IGLAUER Mountie in Mukluks - the Arctic Adventures of Bill White , of the Rcmp Victoria / Vancouver: Harbour Pub, 2004. 2004 Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9 x 1 " 1550173529 2004 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, clear, non-stick mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 248 pages with index ... illustrated with B&W photographs & B&W maps on endpages ...Forward by Edith Iglauer ... In this book, the inspired storytelling of ex-mountie Bill White brings vivid new life to the myth of the old-time redcoat who travelled the Arctic by dogsled, but readers of this book will soon realize they are in the presence of one of the most un-cop-like cops who ever built an igloo ... His cuss-filled accounts of life in the old North, by turns hair-raiising and hilarious, are woven into a moving saga by author Patrick White, placing "Mountie in Mukluks" among the best of Arctic adventure tales ... A rancher, trapper and roustabout who joined the RCMP for his own protection after repeated trouble with the law, Bill took basic taining in Regina, recalling it as a "modified scouts program" enlivened by bouts of wild drinking ... He spent some time wrestling with nude Doukhobor protestors in Saskatchewan before becoming a crewman on the historic RCMP patrol ship St. Roch under the command of the legendary Captain Henry Lawsen, but he hungered for greater adventure and requested a posting ashore upon reaching Cambridge Bay in the Central Arctic ... Adventure he found: "Mountie in Mukluks bristles with accounts of near-death experience under the ice on a frozen river; of an 1800-km dog-sled chase on an arctic murder case and of numerous fascinating encounters with shamans, telepathy and an Inuit way of life that has now vanished from the earth ... "Mounties in Mukluks" is sure to cause a stir among fans of the RCMP and Arctic lore ... A natural rebel who preferred the company of Inuit seal hunters to that of his colleagues, Bill serves up a blistering critique of the white settler way of life and its red-coated enforcers, many of who disdained the traditions of the Inuit while similtaneously relying on them for survival ... " Mountie in Mukluks : The Arctic Adventures of Bill White," by Patrick White ... Published by Harbour Publishing, Victoria, British Columbia ... 2004 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ... *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 6147 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.