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  Scott's Last Expedition : The Personal Journals of R.F. Scott
London: England, Tandem. 1973. (ISBN: 042612474X). Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. pp. 521 Foreword by Sir Peter Scott. foxing to text pages one page of photographs loose from spine good reading copy. Very Good.
CAD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.47 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 747] Book number: 007072
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ALBANOV, VALERIAN  In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
New York, New York, U.S.A. Modern Library. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 067978361X). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.243 In 1912 a Russian exploration vessel was frozen in the ice for nearly 1 1/2 years. clean tight copy minuscule corner wear. Near Fine.
CAD 14.95 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 14.14 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1248] Book number: 007058
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AXTELL, JAMES  Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America
Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A. Oxford Univ Pr on Demand. 1992. (ISBN: 0195080335). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.376 with index. A collection of essays that explores the key role of the imagination both of ours and of strangers in the writing of history. tight copy sporactic pencil underlining throughout slight corner wear. Very Good +++++.
CAD 15.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 15.09 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1332] Book number: 006258
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BASIL MATHEWS  Livingstone - the Pathfinder
N.Y. Missionary Education Movement of the United states and Canada. 1912, First Edition. Pictorial/no Jacket/Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Ernest Prater. pp.213 with index. frontpiece lengthy presentation inscription, freckled pages, pictures, photographs and three maps, one illustration out from text. good reading copy. Good/Good.
CAD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.47 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 747] Book number: 005460
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CLARK, WILLIAM; LEWIS, MERIWETHER; BAKELESS, JOHN EDWIN  Journals of Lewis and Clark: A New Selection
Mentor. 1967, First Mentor Publishing. (ISBN: 0451626702). Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. pp.382 Lewis and Clark's stirring account of their historic exploration of adventure and discovery across America's great Northwest - from the text of their original journals. clean tight unread copy minuscule edgewear. Fine/Near Fine.
CAD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.47 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 747] Book number: 005676
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COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER  The Log of Christopher Columbus
Camden, Maine, U.S.A. Intl Marine Pub. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0877429510). Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. pp.252 with index and bibliography. His own account of the voyage that changed the world lin the acclaimed new translation by Robert H. Fuson. clean tight copy bottom front corner of boards heavily bumped/torn with pieces intact. minuscule edgewaer. Near Fine/Near Fine.
CAD 35.95 [Appr.: EURO 22.75 US$ 34.01 | £UK 20.5 | JP¥ 3002] Book number: 007472
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CONNELL, EVAN S.  Long Desire
San Francisco, North Point Press. 1988. (ISBN: 086547334X). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.275 with index and bibliography. Exploring the desire and obsession for the new, the hidden, the unattainable that burns in an individual's soul. clean tight unread copy. Fine.
CAD 15.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 15.09 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1332] Book number: 007554
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DIAMOND JENNESS  Dawn in Arctic Alaska
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover/No Jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Giacomo Raimondi. Ex-Library, pp.222 with index. library markings include number sticker lower spine, bar code blacked out on top front cover name stamped inside front cover, library name stamp on copyright page, pocket inside back cover, pictoral cover with slight wear to top/bottom spine, and rubbing to back cover. Very Good +++++/Good.
CAD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 US$ 9.41 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 831] Book number: 005412
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FURST, JAN; MUGGERIDGE, HANNY, ILLUSTRATED BY HANNY MUGGERIDGE  Thorfinn Thorhallson's Saga: or What Happened to the Greenland Norse? : Being an Account of an Odyssey from Greenland to Byzantium and from Byzantium to the Mississippi: A Novel
Mobile, Newfoundland, Canada: Mobilewords, Limited, 2000. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.91 and notes and bibliography. Limited to 300 copies. an account of an odyssey from Greenland to Byzantium and from Byzantium to the Mississippi. History-Greenland-Juvenile fiction, America-Discovery and Exploration-Norse. The author examines a possibility mostly discounted by academic historians, namely, the West settlement Greenland Norse emigrated en masse to North America.
CAD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | £UK 4 | JP¥ 584] Book number: 000977
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GERMAINE WARKENTIN  Canadian Exploration Literature
New York, New York, U.S.A. Oxford University Press, Incorporated. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0195408675). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.464 with index and suggestions for further reading. The author has assembled a selection of 25 of he most well known journals and narratives in this anthology from the early fur traders, several Hudson Bay Company and NorWesters, military men, women covering over a 200 year period. clean tight copy minuscule edgewear. Fine.
CAD 75.95 [Appr.: EURO 48 US$ 71.85 | £UK 43.25 | JP¥ 6341] Book number: 003224
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HEYERDAHL, THOR; RALLING, CHRISTOPHER  The Kon-Tiki Man: Thor Heyerdahl
London: England, BBC Books. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0563209208). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. pp.335 with index and bibliography. Explains the authors' scientific theories as he retraces his travels. clean tight unread copy slight edgewear specificially top corners. Fine/Near Fine.
CAD 35.95 [Appr.: EURO 22.75 US$ 34.01 | £UK 20.5 | JP¥ 3002] Book number: 004750
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ISABEL BARCLAY  Filling In the Map
London:England: Dennis Dobson, 1956. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp. 191. Worlds Without End series. Illustrated maps by Rafael Palacios. In this book we go to the Northwest with Hudson, to the North Pacific with Berin, to the Mississippi with La Salle, and Australia with Cook, through Africa with Livingstone and Stanley, to the North Pole with Perry and to the South Pole with Amundsen and Byrd, Shackleton and Scott, Fuchs and Hillary. Whew! 1" tear on d/j top left.
CAD 50.95 [Appr.: EURO 32.25 US$ 48.2 | £UK 29 | JP¥ 4254] Book number: 000195
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J.W. POWELL  The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (formerly Titled:Canyons of The Colorado )
N.Y.: N.Y. Dover Pubns Inc. 1961. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.400 plus index. 250 illustrations and photographs. May 24, 1869, the Green River portage, Wyomiong, ten men and their assignment: to fill in the last white space on the map, to explore the last great unmapped and unknown part of the continental U.S. This is their story. clean tight copy cover shows slight wear to edges with creasing front cover right lower corner written on frontpiece bought at Grand Canyon... Very Good ++.
CAD 11.95 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 11.3 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 998] Book number: 002714
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JACQUELINE M OVERTON  the life of Robert Louis stevenson for Boys and Girls
N.Y. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1915, First Edition. Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. pp.180 with bibliography. former owner name on inside front cover word keep on title page else clean tight copy top front and bck cover shows 2 3/4" stain maybe watermark down outer edge wear and rubbing to all edges slight stains to first few pages but not text. Very Good +++++/Poor/no Jacket.
CAD 15.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 15.09 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1332] Book number: 005471
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JOHANNES V. JENSEN  The Long Journey - Christopher Columbus Part Five
N.Y. Alfred A Knopf. 1924, First Edition. Hard Cover/No Jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. pp. 253 Concluding part of the author's historical cycle. clean tight copy slightly cocked, slight wear to corners and top/bottom spine and spine crease former owner name on inside frontpiece. Good/Good.
CAD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.47 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 747] Book number: 005503
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JOHN MYERS MYERS  The Deaths of the Bravos
Little Brown & Co. First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.467. An informal story of the men who explored, settled and fought in the mountains, towns and plains of the North American Western territories during their inchoate, preindustrial period. clean tight copy d/j price clipped top/bottom spine creases, small nicks and tears corners slightly worn, edges rubbed and minuscule edgewear. Near Fine/Very Good.
CAD 35.95 [Appr.: EURO 22.75 US$ 34.01 | £UK 20.5 | JP¥ 3002] Book number: 005600
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LAURA GOODMAN SALVERSON  Immortal Rock
Toronto: ON, Canada, The Ryerson Press. 1954, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.267. Based on Paul Knutson expedition to Greenland and America in the 14th c. comissioned by his Majesty King Magnus Erikson of Norway, Sweden and Skanne, his letter of authorioty executed at Bergen, October 28th, 1354 by Orm Ostenson, Regent. clean tight unread copy d/j shows rubbings and creasing and small tears to edges with 1" tear back bottom top/bottom spine chipped former owner name on frontpiece. Fine/Very Good +++.
CAD 45.50 [Appr.: EURO 28.75 US$ 43.04 | £UK 26 | JP¥ 3799] Book number: 004959
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MANUEL KOMROFF  The Travels of Marco Polo - The Venetian
N.Y. Boni & Liveright. 1926, Third Printing. Hard Cover/No Jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.370 with index. slightly foxed text pages, bumped corners and top/bottom spine sporatic writing in Japanese throughout, map included, former owner name on frontpiece. Very Good/Good.
CAD 12.95 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 12.25 | £UK 7.5 | JP¥ 1081] Book number: 005438
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NAOMI MITCHISON  The Land the Ravens Found
Don Mills:Ontario: Learning Concepts, 1971. Paperback. Good/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. pp.199 with general questions and suggestions. encounter series. foxing to pages and inside covers. tight copy. crease on back top cover. slight edgewear. A story about man' search for the West, the new country. Exploration.
CAD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.25 US$ 4.73 | £UK 3 | JP¥ 417] Book number: 000941
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NICKERSON, SHEILA  Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. J P Tarcher/Putnam. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 1585421332). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected Proof, pp.183 In 1871 Charles Francis Hall's Polaris expedition was the first American's to reach the North Pole;they would not have survived if a woman named Tookolito came to their rescue. clean tight unread copy. As New.
CAD 25.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.5 US$ 24.55 | £UK 15 | JP¥ 2167] Book number: 004248
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PLIMPTON, GEORGE  Ernest Shackleton
N.Y. Dk Pub. 2003, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0789493152). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp.160. The author tells Shackleton's story and recounts his own recent adventures following his footsteps. The Biography series from A & E television networks and DK Publishing. clean tight copy. Fine/Fine.
CAD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 19 US$ 28.33 | £UK 17.25 | JP¥ 2501] Book number: 006183
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POLO, MARCO  The Travels of Marco Polo
N.Y. Abaris Books. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0898350581). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. pp.318 with index. Based on the publication by the Folio Society, London England. 10 full color illustrations, 3 maps. clean tight copy d/j top front cover near spine 1/2" tear with crease, wear to top/bottom spine small nicks, corners small tears, back cover blemish where part of the orange color ripped off else slight edgewear of rubbing. Fine/Good.
CAD 55.95 [Appr.: EURO 35.5 US$ 52.93 | £UK 32 | JP¥ 4671] Book number: 005766
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SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON  The European Discovery of America - the Northern Voyages A. D. 500-1600
N.Y, Oxford Univ Pr. 1971. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition, pp.712 with index. A comprehensive and brilliantly readable account of all known voyages across the North Atlantic to the New World prior to 1600. clean tight copy d/j shows rubbings, tears, small nicks to all edges. back blank second page in spine broken but pages still intact. Fine/Good.
CAD 35.50 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.58 | £UK 20.25 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 004972
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THOR HEYERDAHL  The Kon Tiki Expedition - By Raft across the South Seas
London;England, The Book Club. Hard Cover/No Jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. pp.250 with index. slight foxing to text pages slightly bumped corners and edgewear. Very Good +++++/Very Good +++++.
CAD 10.95 [Appr.: EURO 7 US$ 10.36 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 914] Book number: 005443
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