MOWAT, FARLEY

The Farfarers ; Before the Norse

Toronto: Key Porter Books Ltd, 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1550139894. Gift notation on front free endpaper, otherwise near-fine. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 377 pages; "A veteran investigator of early European voyages to North America, Mowat (Westviking) has conjured up a vision of pre-Viking settlement by a people he calls the Albans. Originating in what is now Scotland, Mowat's Albans were displaced in stages between about 700 and 1000 A.D, first to Iceland and Greenland, and finally to the western coast of Newfoundland. The author sees the Albans as driven westward by two forces: the search for valuables such as sealskin and walrus tusk, and the remorseless pressure of Viking raiders. To support his thesis, Mowat presents what scant evidence exists-mainly, stone constructions, like tower beacons and foundations for shelters, which Mowat believes cannot be attributed to the Norse or to native inhabitants of Greenland or Atlantic Canada, and which resemble stonework found in the Orkney Islands. On this basis, Mowat accepts that the Albans existed and sets out to imagine what their migrations were like.". Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21418

Catalogue: Exploration

Keywords: 1550139894 norsemen albans Greenland Viking EXPLORATION HISTORY

MOWAT, FARLEY

The Polar Passion

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973. Revised Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 077106621X. Blue cloth boards show light shelf wear. DJ shows heavy shelf wear, with several tears, creasing and chipping. Pieces of DJ missing from DJ edges on front and back. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Top of the World Trilogy #2; B&W Illustrations & Maps; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 365 pages; The trilogy is comprised of 'Ordeal by Ice, 'Polar Passion' and 'Tundra'. This volume is a tribute to the explorers who opened up the Arctic, from the tenth century Icelander Thorgisl to the nineteenth century Frederick Cook.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 18944

Catalogue: Exploration::North

Keywords: 077106621X Arctic Thorgisl History::Canada EXPLORATION

NANTON, PAUL

Arctic Breakthrough Franklin's Expeditions, 1819

London: William Kimber and Co. Ltd, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0718301323. Illustrated by Map Endpapers. DJ has short tears and some chipping, some foxing of page edges. Back panel of dust jacket scuffed with staining along top edge. ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A tight solid book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 270 pages; A vivid account of all three of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expeditions, culminating in the disastrous expedition of 1845 in which all members of the party were lost. "This work tells of Captain John Franklin, his life and achievements, from the age of thirty-three when he led his first expedition to the Arctic. Much of this work was taken from his journals.". Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 16121

Catalogue: Exploration::Arctic

Keywords: 0718301323 Northwest Passage Exploration Arctic

NEATBY, LESLIE H.

The Search for Franklin,

Edmonton, AB: Hurtig Publishers, 1970. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888300433. Boards show light shelf wear. DJ shows heavier wear, with short tears, light chipping and creasing. Previous owner's name on FFEP. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Laid in are a couple articles, one about Dr. John Rae, a surgeon in the 1800s who searched for Franklin and his crew, the other an 1986 report on a postmortem examination done in 1984 on one of Franklin's crew members from the Terror - Petty Officer John Torrington. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 281 pages; "Sir John Franklin famously spent half his life attempting to find a sea route across northern Canada and in 1847 he died trying. Location of his doomed final expedition remained a mystery despite more than a dozen further expeditions to find him. This book covers these fruitless expeditions of 1848-1859.". Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20456

Catalogue: Exploration::Franklin

Keywords: 0888300433 John Franklin EXPLORATION NORTH

NIVEN, JENNIFER

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

New York: Hyperion, 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0786868635. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, front free endpaper removed ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 431 pages; "In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman--who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband--conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished.". Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21501

Catalogue: Native Studies::Exploration

Keywords: 0786868635 Exploration Inuit eskimo wrangell island Arctic EXPLORATION Native Studies NORTH

NIVEN, JENNIFER

The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk and the Miraculous Rescue of Her Survivors

New York: Hyperion, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0786865296. DJ shows very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 402 pages; "In 1913 an expedition party sailed out of British Columbia in search of an undiscovered Arctic continent. Filled with hope and excitement, the twenty-five people on board had no hint of the tragedy that lay ahead. Imprisoned in ice, abandoned by their expedition leader, and blown off course by polar storms, the Karluks crew was eventually forced to abandon ship on the ice-pack somewhere in the remote, treacherous Arctic. While the captain set off on foot on a 700-mile trek to search for help, the castaways left behind had no choice but to wait, and to struggle against hypothermia, snowblindness, and death from mysterious disease, starvation, or exposure to the brutal Arctic winter. Finally, after being stranded for nearly twelve months at the top of the world, eight men, one woman, and two children were rescued.". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21421

Catalogue: Exploration::Arctic

Keywords: 0786865296 Karluk Arctic Exploration History::Canada EXPLORATION

ONDAATJE, CHRISTOPHER

Sindh Revisited a Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton 1842

Toronto: Harpercollins Canada, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002554364. Light edge wear to book and dustjacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Colour illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 351 pages; The travels of Richard Burton, 19th-century traveller, orientalist, archaeologist, linguist, anthropologist and controversial diplomat, are traced in this text. The book is both a biography and exploration of the British India of yesterday and the India and Sindh of today. Colour illustraions and maps throughout. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 16561

Catalogue: Exploration::India

Keywords: 0002554364 Sir richard francis burton sindh Exploration anthropologist Archaeologist India EXPLORATION ASIA

PETHICK, DEREK

First Approaches to the Northwest Coast

North Vancouver, BC: J. J. Douglas Ltd, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888940564. Price clipped DJ and board show light shelf wear, dust jacket lightly chipped.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches; 232 pages; "Before 1792 twenty-nine voyages reached land between what is now the California - Oregon border and the Bering Sea. Each of these voyages permanently altered the balance of power amongst the European courts - as well as setting the tone of relations between the native peoples and the "mau mau'l ney : those who came floating on the water without land".. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 19247

Catalogue: Exploration::West Coast

Keywords: 0888940564 British Columbia oregon California History::USA History::Canada EXPLORATION

PETHICK, DEREK

First Approaches to the Northwest Coast

North Vancouver, BC: J. J. Douglas Ltd, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888940564. DJ and board show light shelf wear, dust jacket lightly chipped, 1" tear top front panel, previous owner's name on front free end paper.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches; 232 pages; "Before 1792 twenty-nine voyages reached land between what is now the California - Oregon border and the Bering Sea. Each of these voyages permanently altered the balance of power amongst the European courts - as well as setting the tone of relations between the native peoples and the "mau mau'l ney : those who came floating on the water without land".. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 19680

Catalogue: Exploration::West Coast

Keywords: 0888940564 British Columbia oregon California History::USA History::Canada EXPLORATION

PETHICK, DEREK

The Nootka Connection; Europe and the Northwest Coast, 1790

Vancouver BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888942796. Light shelf wear, a couple of short tears ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W photos and maps; 9.0 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches; 281 pages; The Nootka Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island became a base for the exploration of the West Coast in the 1700's.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20556

Catalogue: Canadiana::Exploration

Keywords: 0888942796 Northwest West Coast Exploration History::Canada

RASKY, FRANK

The North Pole Or Bust

Toronto: Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0070825483. Illustrated by Map Endpapers. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, with tears, creasing and chipping, 1" tear top spine edge. Price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Explorers of the North ; B&W Photographs; 10.1 X 6.9 X 1.3 inches; 415 pages; "Chronicles the disappointments, triumphs, and heroism of Arctic exploration from nineteenth-century British Admiralty expeditions to the journeys of Knud Rasmussen and Vilhjalmur Stefansson". Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 19789

Catalogue: Exploration

Keywords: 0070825483 Arctic EXPLORATION

ROBERTSON, HEATHER

Measuring Mother Earth How Joe the Kid Became Tyrrell of the North

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771075391. Only light wear, traces of previous owner's stamp on front pastedown. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 Inches; 360 pages; A vivid, entertaining portrait of the great Canadian explorer Joseph Burr Tyrrell, the man who single-handedly invented the notion of the “Romance of the North”. In the 19th century, exploring the Earth was as exciting and awe-inspiring an activity as space exploration was in the 20th century. And even as late as the 1880s, vast expanses of Canada remained largely untrodden by Europeans. So joining the Geological Survey in 1882 was the realization of a dream for the short-sighted, profoundly deaf, and egotistical young Joseph Burr Tyrrell. A romantic, inspired as much by Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novels and by Wild Bill Hickock’s exploits as by the spirited debates about evolution that informed his work, Tyrrell chafed under the strictures of the survey. By the time of the Klondike gold rush in 1898, he was a bitter man, resentful that the survey under George Dawson had repeatedly refused to promote him or give him any plum jobs. He quit and took up prospecting instead, which brought him nothing but misery in the Yukon but handed him a fortune when gold was discovered in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. His own best fan, Tyrrell did finally achieve the celebrity he ached for. Decked out in a sealskin parka and moccasins, while he burnished stories of his achievements, Tyrrell became the prototype of the romantic hero-explorer later personified by Robert Scott (of the Antarctic). He retired a multi-millionaire and died at the age of ninety-eight, just six weeks before the 1957 space launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 14655

Catalogue: Exploration

Keywords: 0771075391 Joseph tyrell George dawson Exploration Klondike EXPLORATION

RUBY, ROBERT

Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony

New York: Henry Holt and Co, 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805052151. A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 320 pages; "England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown, but on a mostly frozen small island in the Canadian Arctic. Queen Elizabeth I called that place Meta Incognita -- the Unknown Shore. Backed by Elizabeth I and her key advisors, including the legary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the shadowy Dr. John Dee, the erstwhile pirate Sir Martin Frobisher set out three times across the North Atlantic, in the process leading what is still the largest Arctic expedition in history. In this brilliantly conceived dual narrative, Robert Ruby interweaves Frobisher's saga with that of the nineteenth-century American Charles Francis Hall, whose explorations of this same landscape enabled him to hear the oral history of the Inuit, passed down through generations. It was these stories that unlocked the mystery of Frobisher's lost colony.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21227

Catalogue: Exploration::Arctic

Keywords: 0805052151 Frobisher Queen Elizabeth I Charles Francis Hall Arctic EXPLORATION

SATTERFIELD, ARCHIE

The Lewis & Clark Trail

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0811709353. Boards show light shelf wear, DJ has light chipping, tape-repaired tears. B&W illustrations; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 224 pages; "On orders of President Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led a group of men across some of North America's most magnificent scenery to find "the direct water communication from sea to sea". In words and many illustrations, this book tells that story of the great adventure.". Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 21621

Catalogue: Exploration::US

Keywords: 0811709353 lewis & clark sacajawea History::USA EXPLORATION

SCHUVER, JUAN MARIA; (GERD BAUMANN, DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON & WENDY JAMES EDITORS)

Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa 1880

London: Hakluyt Society, 1996. 1st Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 090418045X. Illustrated by B&W and Color Plates. DJ shows light edge wear and scuffing, bottom back corner bumped ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; Hakluyt Society. Second Series, No 184; 1.25 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches; 392 pages; "Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam family in the mid-nineteenth century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceededup the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route to the East African coast." He was killed in Dinka territory while on this expedition. "The present volume offers the full English accounts supplemented by passages from the author's French revisions, and also draws on other drafts and letters to give for the first time a full picture of Schuver's African travels.". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 13330

Catalogue: Exploration

Keywords: 090418045X Exploration Dinka mahdist Africa EXPLORATION