Nutchuk with Hatch, Alden

Son of the Smoky Sea

New York, Julian Messner, 1941. Ed. not stated. Hardcover. 245 pp.Large 8vo,,Corners bumped, cloth a bit worn, else vg. Ill.: B&w photos.

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Book number: 9900009539

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Keywords: Alaska;North;Arctic;;;;;; B&w photos

Hall, Judy, Jill Oakes and Sally Qimmiu'naaq Webster

Sanatujut Pride in Women's Work; Copper and Caribou Inuit Clothing Traditions

Hull, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1994. Paperback. pp. 136. 4to. Colour and duotone photographic illustrations. Covers rubbed, some rippling to pages, last 2 pages stuck together; very good. .

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Book number: 091281

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OPPEN, William

L'Experience Du Yak / Yak Experience

,A translation into French of an article which originally appeared in the January/February, 1978, edition of the magazine 'North/Nord'. The translation is typed (double-spaced) on 8 1/2 x 11' paper. Our copy appears to be a photocopy of the original. Ten pages in all; no illustrations. This copy unmarked, and in very good condition. .

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Book number: 9900036223

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Keywords: Arctic;;;;;;;;

Paine, Robert (ed.)

Patrons and Brokers in the East Arctic

St. John's, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1971. Hardcover. pp. 111. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth. Light shelfwear, small mark to cover, corners bumped, ink incription to ffep, foxing to rfep; very good+. Newfoundland Social and Economic Papers Number 2. .

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Book number: 081934

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Parks, Jennifer

Canada's Arctic Sovereignty; Resources, Climate and Conflict

Edmonton, Lone Pine Publishing, 2010. Hardcover. pp. 240. Blue binding. Ink inscription to ffep; other near fine in near fine dustjacket. .

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Book number: 080863

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Pitseolak, Peter and Dorothy Eber

People from Our Side; a Life Story with Photographs by Peter Pitseolak and Oral Biography by Dorothy Eber

Edmonton, Hurtig Publishers, 1975. Paperback. pp. 159. 4to. Replete with duotone photographic illustrations. Light shelfwear and age toning, lettering to half title page, slight smoky odour; good. An Inuit record of Seekooseelak - the land of the people of Cape Dorset, Baffin Island. .

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Book number: 087252

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Priestley, Raymond E.

Antarctic Adventure; Scott's Northern Party

Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. pp. x, 382. B&w photos, illustrations and maps (some folding), all in pristine condition. Light wear to edges; near fine in rubbed, lightly toned, very good dust jacket showing sticker ghost to front panela and a few very short. Facsimile reprint of the 1814 T. Fisher Unwin first edition. Foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs. .

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Book number: 085535

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Keywords: Classics; Exploration; British National Antarctic Expedition

Priestley, Raymond E.

Antarctic Adventure: Scott's Northern Party

New York City, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1915. First American edition. Hardcover. pp. 382. Thick 8vo. This volume has been re-bound in buckram similar in colour to the original binding, with the original cloth from the front board re-laid on the new board (showing silver lettering and silver illustration of tenting in the ice). The new spine is lettered in the same fashion as the original spine. Binder's error: glue stain affecting the gutter of the rear endpaper only. The page edges have been trimmed. There is a four digit number stamped at the top of the preface page, indicating that this volume may have come from a library (no other evidence of such origin apparent). All plates and (three) folding maps present. The maps are in excellent condition. Internally, very clean, with light soiling to only one or two pages. Overall, as re-bound, in very good condition. The first American edition of the work originally published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1914. Spence 939; Rosove 256.A2. Priestley (1886-1974) joined the 1907-1909 British Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, and contributed geological sections to Shackleton's THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC (1909). He later joined Scott's ill-fated second expedition, out of which he published (in 1914) this volume, an account of the two winters (1911 and 1912) he, and his scientific team, spent in the Antarctic environment. In 1920, he helped Frank Debenham found the Scott Polar Research Institure at Cambridge. .

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Book number: 9900028421

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Keywords: South Pole; Robert Falcon Scott; Exploration;

Rich, E.E.

John Rae's Correspondence; with the Hudson's Bay Company on Arctic Exploration 1844-1855

London, The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1953. Hardcover. pp. 401. Thick 8vo. Bound in navy blue cloth, gilt page ends to upper edge. General shelfwear, light soiling, spine darkened, boards splayed, ink inscription to front pastedown, blind stamp to ffep, hinges somewhat tender; good. The Hudson's Bay record Society XVI. this copy is No. 492 of a limited edition. .

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Book number: 091335

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Keywords: Colonialism; western expansion; European aggression; mercantilism

Richardson, Sir John

Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-Voyage Through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1852. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. pp. xi, 516, ads [6]. Small 8vo. Embossed black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Tables and in-text engravings. This version published without the plates and map of the earlier UK first edition. Spine and corners inexpertly laminated, presumably to mitigate further loss to spine ends, corners and joints. Adhesive residue to front endpapers, contents show foxing, but are otherwise unmarked and in good condition. The first edition was published in London by Longman in 1851. This edition contains the journal of Richardson's and Dr. John Rae's expedition in 1848 down the Mackenzie River and along the coast to the Coppermine River, returning overland to Fort Confidence (Arctic Bibliography #14489). Also included is an "Eskimo Vocabulary". Richardson was attempting to collect evidence of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his crew, while conducting numerous scientific observations. Ill.: woodcuts and diagrams.

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Book number: 086442

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Keywords: Sir John Franklin; Far North; Northern Canada; Northwest Passage; Eskimo; Exploration; Mackenzie River; Coppermine River; Cree Indians woodcuts and diagrams

Rosove, Michael H.

Let Heroes Speak; Antartic Explorers 1772-1922

New York, Berkley Trade, 2002. Paperback. pp. 358. 8vo. Light shelfwear and age toning; very good. .

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Book number: 088072

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Keywords: Antarctic; Shackleton

Russell, Frank

Explorations in the Far North; Being the Report of an Expedition Under the Auspices of the University of Iowa During the Years 1892, '93, and '94

[Iowa], State University of Iowa, 1898. Hardcover. pp. vii, 290. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Patterned endpapers. Portrait frontispiece, folding map, b&w plates. Spine sunned, edgewear, name stamp, minor separation between title page and frontispiece, a few pencil marks; very good. Peel 2167: "While most of the text describes the Mackenzie River valley, there is valuable information on the lower Saskatchewan Valley, and on southern Alberta." Includes travel narratives, chapters on musk-ox hunting, ethnological materials, myths, natural history. .

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Book number: 083444

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Keywords: natural history; Inuit; North; Arctic; Canada; Canadian; Manitoba;

Scott, R. F.

Scott of the Antarctic; the Journals of Captain Scott's Last Polar Exhibition

N.P. Prospero Books, 1990. Hardcover. pp. 521. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 075933

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Scott, Captain Robert F.

The Voyage of the Discovery

New York City, Cooper Square Press, 2001. Hardcover.Royal 8vo,,Two volume set: near fine cond. in near fine dust jackets,A facsimile reprint of the two-volume deluxe edition. pp. xlvii, 570; xliii, 508. Foreword by Fritjof Nansen. New Introduction by Ross MacPhee. ISBN 0815410794 & ISBN 0815411510. Ill.: b&w photos and illustrations.

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Book number: 9900030359

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Keywords: Antarctica;Exploration;British National;Journeys;Robert Falcon Scott;History;Travel;Antarctic; b&w photos and illustrations

SHIELDS, Mary

Sled Dog Trails

Fairbanks, Alaska, Pyrola Publishing, 1984. 1st edition. Paperback. pp. 127. Larger format pb - sl. edge-worn & creased; else vg. INSCRIBED by author: 'To Shirley, Mary Shields', ink on ffep. Ink name and address on rear endpaper. Ill.: maps, b&w illustrations.

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Book number: 9900028892

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Keywords: Dog sledding;Iditarod;Alaska;The North;;;;; maps, b&w illustrations