Adams, Lieut. Harry, U.S.N.,

Beyond the Barrier with Byrd.

NY, Goldsmith, (1932). G. Copy of letter from Byrd ft endpaper .Green binding penguin pictorial, tanning toward page edges, hinges cracked. Spine tanned. Author Adams was awarded a medal for his help in Byrd's expedition.

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N° du livre: BOOKS050455I

Catalogue: Adventure

Bechdel, Les & Slim Ray,

River Rescue.

Boston, MA, Appalachian Mountain Club, (1985). VG PB. An indispensable aid for anyone who spends time on the river, essential for all rescue professionals. Every aspect of white. water rescue as well as self rescue.

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N° du livre: BOOKS031743I

Catalogue: Adventure

Boeri, David,

People of the Ice Whale: eskimos, white men and the whale.

NY, Harvest, (1983). 1st PB ptg. G PB. Survival of the bowhead whale and the continuation of the Eskimos' centuries-old hunt in the Bering Strait and Beauford. Sea became opposite poles of a conflict that drew Boeri to the remote St. Lawrence Island Village of Gambell and the North Slope boomtown of Barrow in Alaska. Corner creases.

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N° du livre: BOOKS044426I

Catalogue: Adventure

Expedition, foreword by Jon Krakauer,

High Exposure: an enduring passion for Everest and unforgiving places.

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1999). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. An uncommonly intrepid filmmaker who brought back spectacular IMAX footage from the top of Mt. Everest, made the documentary. Red Flag over Tibet about Chinese occupation of the Buddhist homeland for PBS' frontline, the guerrilla cinematographer who smuggled a 35mm Arriflex into Tibet to film scenes for the big budget epic Seven Years in Tibet, his authorship of a little-known climbing route, Perilous Journey, which rises in the foothills outside Boulder, Colorado.

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N° du livre: BOOKS052445I

Catalogue: Adventure

Hass, Manta, translataed from German by James Cleugh,

Manta: under the Red Sea with spear and camera.

Chicago, Rand McNally, (1953). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Hass' first meeting with Manta birostris, a ray shaped like an enormous bat up to 22 feet from fin to fin & 6,000 pounds. DJ price clipped, few page tops have paperclip marks.

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N° du livre: BOOKS041667I

Catalogue: Adventure

Hillary, foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh,

Conquest of Everest.

NY, Dutton, 1954. 3rd ptg. VG in G DJ. Lead of the British expedition Hunt gives the deeply moving story of that great undertaking. DJ edge split at spine,. chunks missing at edges.

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N° du livre: BOOKS050040I

Catalogue: Adventure

Hirsch, Phil, edited by,

Survival.

NY, Pyramid, (1969). VG PB. 12 unbelievably thrilling sagas of men pushed to the brink of endurance first-accounts by men who have survived the impossible. Sl edge wear.

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N° du livre: BOOKS046061I

Catalogue: Adventure

Jermanok, Stephen,

Adventure Guide to New England.

NY, Outside Magazine/Macmillan, (1996). VG lg sz PB. Author knows New England the best, his boyhood stomping grounds.

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N° du livre: BOOKS054818I

Catalogue: Adventure

Kennedy, Pagan,

Black Livingstone: a true tale of adventure in the 19th century Congo.

NY, Viking, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The Belgian Congo of the 19th century was the world of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and a brutal time in African history. European countries were slaughtering the Congolese to harvest the rubber needed for telegraph and electrical cables. William Sheppard was there to record the atrocities and to help pioneer a worldwide civil rights movement on behalf of the Congolese people.

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N° du livre: BOOKS050561I

Catalogue: Adventure

King, Peter, edited by, foreword by Beryl Bainbridge,

Scott's Last Journey.

NY, HarperCollins, (1999). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. King's re-examines Scott's exploits, setting his own account against modern studies of the Polar Race and lets readers make. their own judgments. Suitable for gift giving.

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N° du livre: BOOKS048596I

Catalogue: Adventure

Michel, Scott,

Journey into Limbo: a novel of intimate adventure.

NY, Liveright Pub, (1962). VG in G DJ. How a man and woman on the same voyage and only surivors of 1,667 passengers and crew recovered from the Sea Queen,. a leading psychiatrist and a well known prostitute survived. DJ edge wear.

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N° du livre: BOOKS055422I

Catalogue: Adventure

Montgomery, Sy,

Spell of the Tiger: the man-eaters of Sundarbans.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 1st prntg. G Hardback in VG dj. With the predatory relatioinship between India Bay'a Bengal tigers and the native of Sundarbans, a study notes how the. tigers are worshipped by the people there and reconts the many legends that associate the tigers with supernatural qualities. Small stain on facing pages 117 & 119, some underlining.

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N° du livre: BOOKS056280I

Catalogue: Adventure

Nansen, Fridtjof,

Pa Ski Over Gronland (in Norwegian).

Oslo, Norway, H. Aschehong & Co., (1928). G. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. heavy edge wear, scrape at top right corner of cover. Nansen's crossing of Greenland which yielded information on its climate and geography, especially it's east coast.

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N° du livre: BOOKS050422I

Catalogue: Adventure

Roberts, Alison Anderson translator,

In the Land of White Death: an epic story of survival in the Siberian Arctic.

NY, Modern Library, (2000). 1st ptg thus. VG in VG DJ. In 1912 Russian navigator Albanov embarked i search of new Arctic hunting grounds. His ship Saint Anna was frozen fast in. pack ice in the treacherous Kara Sea. For almost 1-1/2 years the 25 men and one woman endured terrible hardships & danger. First published in 1917, here translated into English for the first time. Gift quality.

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N° du livre: BOOKS036171I

Catalogue: Adventure

Shackleton, Sir Ernest, introduction by Lord Hunt,

South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-17.

London, Century, (1983). Reprint. VG PB.

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N° du livre: BOOKS041467I

Catalogue: Adventure