Search Results: Adventure/Expeditions from 100 POCKETS

Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers & Univ of Washington Press, 1989. 2nd Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint creasings & rubs to edges and corner tips. First published 1967; this reprint retains original text & photographs with newly drawn maps.The orginal detailed account of the Press Exploring Expediton (1889 - 90) was in the newspaper Seattle Press, July 16, 1890. The Press, in the fall of 1889 (the year Washington became a state), called for "hardy citizens . . . to acquire fame by unveiling the mystery which wraps the land encircled by the snow capped Olympic range." Nothing more was written but for breif accounts here and there. Author Wood has returned to diaries of the expedition members and other original records to reconstruct the experiences of the The Press Party, which was composed of six men, four dogs, two mules, and 1500 pounds of supplies. An extraordinary adventure of near six… Read More

New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1998. First Edition, 2nd Printing . New/New. BRAND NEW Copy. Memoir of mountaineer and retired attorney Jim Wickwire (1940 - ) whose extraordinary accomplishments was featured on 60 Minutes, inspired a PBS, a Broadway play, and a full-length film. Wickwire, with Louis Reichardt, were the first Americans to conquer K2, world's 2nd highest mountain, on Sept 6, 1978. Staying on to photograph, Wickwire spent that very night in the open. An early episode in a life of challenges.

New York, NY: Aladdin Books/Macmillan, 1999. First Edition, 5th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace softcover wear. First published 1876; this is an unabridged reprint of the original text. Novelist, essayist, and travel writer Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910) said his Preface (not included in this edition), said: "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, ... he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys who I knew". The book draws from the author's youth spent in Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi.

Toronto, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1971. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace edge & surface wear. First published 1969; this is a paperback reprint. Fur trader and explorer Alexander Mackenzie (1764 - 1820) is known for two great journeys: To the Arctic Ocean (1789) and over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean (1783). A historical narrative based on Mackenzie's journals.

New York, NY: Coward, McCann, 1954. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Green linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; Strong & sound w/nips, chips, rubs to edges & small losses to upper spine corners; under mylar. Autobiography/memoir of Canadian-born mountaineer Earl Denman. A purist with little regard for modern equipment and well-heeled official expeditions, Denman was the first to scale all eight of the Virunga Mountains of Belgium Congo accompanied by only local guides before he set sights on a lone conquest of Everest in 1947. With a lean purse of $700 and the simplest of equipment he set off to Tibet despite Nepal's borders being closed to the Western world. Remarkably, he was able to persuade Tenzing Norgay (1914 - 1986) and Ang Dawato to partner with him. Everest did eluded them but the trio did reach the foot of the North Col before turning back. Denman will walk part of the way back to Darjeeling in bare feet after his boots wear… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1964. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed blue linen boards/NF. DJ/none, however, dustjacket inner flaps clipped and laid-in. Dyed upper text edge; map to endpapers. Record of first American ascent of Mt. Everest, 1963. Led by Swiss born explorer, film-maker, and veteran mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, whose father led international expeditions to Kangechejunga and Batoro in the 1930s. Sponsored by Nat'l Geographic Society, the expedition was scientific research in nature; the team was the most academically brilliant ... 5 members with doctorates and 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd, 1963. Luther G/ Jerstad and Barry Bishop reach the summit of the South East Ridge via South Col route, while Will Usoeld and Tom Hornbein of the West Ridge team conquered the West Ridge/Northface; the two teams rendevous and descend together. July 8th, the Expedition was received at the White… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1964. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Good. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed blue linen boards/NF. DJ/Good; nips, chips to edges & small losses to upper/lower spine & lower corners. Dyed upper text edge; map to endpapers. Record of first American ascent of Mt. Everest, 1963. Led by Swiss born explorer, film-maker, and veteran mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, whose father led international expeditions to Kangechejunga and Batoro in the 1930s. Sponsored by Nat'l Geographic Society, the expedition was scientific research in nature; the team was the most academically brilliant ... 5 members with doctorates and 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd, 1963. Luther G/ Jerstad and Barry Bishop reach the summit of the South East Ridge via South Col route, while Will Usoeld and Tom Hornbein of the West Ridge team conquered the West Ridge/Northface; the two teams rendevous and descend together. July 8th, the Expedition was… Read More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1971. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Black linen boards/NF w/light wear. DJ/None. British mountaineer Sir Christian John Storey Bonington's (1934 - ) career includes 19 expeditions to the Himalayas. In 1970 Bonington led the first team to ascent the south face of Annapurna; this memoir is an account of the climb. The volume is dedicated to Ian Clough who lost his life on the expedition. This legendary climb is a first attempt at scaling, literally a wall, steep rock and ice at an extreme altitude. Out of it's success and out of this book, the last 30 years of mountaineering has benefitted much. Illustrated w/color photos the last being is a fold-out schematic of where fixed ropes were laid. Fine copy less dust jacket.

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1958. First Edition, 2nd Impression . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated blue linen boards/NF w/trace discoloration. DJ/Good; intact w/nips, chips, faint creasings, small losses to edges and rubs to surfaces. Map to endpapers. An excursion into the full artic year. Guided, month by month, by hardy Danes, explorer, anthropologist and journalist Peter Freuchen (1886 - 1957) and ornithologist and naturalist Finn Salomonsen (1909 - 1983) who know the land well, and few will ever step foot on.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Boards/Fine. DJ/VG; strong & sound w/edge wear. Brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to lower text edge. Bookdealer sticker to rear cover verso. Mountaineering adventures. Autobiography/memoir of father, Sir Edmund Hilliary (1919 - 2008), and son, Peter Hillary (1953 -), first father/son duo to ascent Everest. First published 1984, UK, under the title: Two Generations (1984).

London, UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. First Edition, 2nd Impression of 1953 . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Photographs (Various). Text/New & Bright. First Edition, 2nd Impression of Dec, 1953. Blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF w/trace edge rubs. DJ/NF; light edge wear & faint discoloration; under mylar. Upper text edge dyed blue. Frontis: Tenzin on Everest's summit, 29th May, 1953. Chronicle of the 1953 historic ascent of Mount Everest by leader of the British Expedition, Brigadier Henry Cecil John Hunt (1910 - 1998); Chapter 16 by new Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary (1919 - 2008) who, together with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (1914 - 1986), reached the summit on May 29th, 1953. 300 pgs, color & b/w photos, 18 chapters in 6 parts: I, Background; II, Plannin; III, Approach; IV, Build-up; V, Assault; and VI, Aftermath, followed by 9 Appendices by members of the Expedition & Glossary. Fine copy.

National Travel Club, 1935. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed black linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/faded backstrap. DJ/None. PO label to illustrated fEP. Three-dimensional "glasses", also New, to rear pocket. Story of the British expedition to Mount Everest in 1933 under the leadership of Hugh Ruttledge (1884 - 1961 who also lead the subsequent 1936 expedition. was an English mountaineer, and leader of two expeditions to Mount Everest in 1933 and 1936. It was during this expedition that Wyn-Harris found the ice axe which belonged to Andrew Irvine, who had disappeared on the peak on the 1924 British Expedition along with George Mallory. One of the sherpas on this expedition (as well as on the 1936 attempt) was Tenzing Norgay, who made the first ascent of Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atria Books, 2004. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace wear to upper front corner of blue softcover. Advance Reading Copy [ARC)/Uncorrected Proof. Autobiography of a super-human survival story; an extraordinary show of resilience. Outdoorsman, engineer and motivational speaker Aron Lee Ralston (1975 -), neglecting to inform family or friend, on April 26, 2003, hiked the Blue John Canyon, in Utah. A shift of a boulder crushes his right hand and pins him against a canyon wall. Trapped so for 5 days, he amputates his right forearm with a dull multi-tool, makes it down from a 65 foot ledge, and walks six miles before running into a a vacationing family from the Netherlands.

New York, NY: Beechhurst Press, 1953. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Colin Wyatt (Photographer). Stated First American Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Blue linen boards/NF w/light rubs & discoloration to edges. DJ/VG; strong & sound w/nips, chips, closed tears & losses, soil spot to upper front, and showing discodiscoloration; under mylar. Bookdealer sticker to rear cover verso; PO names (same owner) to front/rear covers verso. 75 photogravure plates. A worldwide backcountry, ski odyssey by British mountianeer and ski champion Colin Wyatt who is also skilled with the camera. A travel narrative all the more unique because Wyatt enjoyed exploring "less-known mountains and their inhabitants. 9 chapters: I, The Snows of Africa; II, Crossing the High Atlas; III, Across Lapland to the North Cape; IV, "Sons of the Eagle": An Albanian Interlude; V, Riding Through the Canadian Rockies; VI, Ski-ing Across Volcanoes in Maori-Land; VII, From Ice to… Read More

New Haven, CT: Yale Univ Press, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/Good; sound but tired w/rubs & faint creasings to edges & surfaces, and small surface losses to front by leading edge. Chronicle of the 2nd Expedition down the Colorado River by Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) in 1871-1872. Artist and adventurer Frederick S. Dellenbaugh (1853-1925) served as Artist & Assistan Topographer of this Expedition. He was a young man under twenty years old then, but had already acquired the discipline of keeping daily journals and became the adventure's unofficial chronicler. This account was written some forty years later from his field notebook. Excellent supplement to Powell's account(s), and a virtual handbook for modern adventurers bent on shooting the dangerous rapids of the Colorado. Strong copy w/a tired soft cover.

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1951. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. William Briesemeister (Charts). Text/Brights As New w/soil spot to page 1. Blue linen boards/NF; strong & sound, showing light edge wear & faint discoloration. DJ/VG w/nips, chips & faint creasings to edges & discoloration to spine. Map to endpapers. PO label to front cover verso. First published 1939; this is a reprint. Maritime history. Chronicle of milestone adventures and expeditions that sailed Cape Horn, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, major clipper route prior to opening of the Panama Canal (1914). Its treacherous waters remains a challenge in yachting. An icon in sailing culture for centuries, classic accounts include Two Years Before the Mast (Richard Henry Dana, Jr.), The Voyage of the Beagle (Charles Darwin), besides experiences of Sir Francis Drake, Megellan's fleet, and, of course Dutchman Willem Schouten who discovers the Cape and names it in honor of his home town, Hoorn. Add to past adventures are… Read More

New York NY: W.W. Norton, 1997. First Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace wear to corner tips. Biography of British explorer, navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook (1728 - 1779) who made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean to be the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia, the Hawaiian Islands, as well as the first to circumnavigate New Zealand.

London, UK: Wright & Brown, 1940. First British Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Text/As New. Orange linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/nips, chips, small losses to edges; under mylar. Trace discoloration to endpapers & leading text edge. PO name to fEP. Clem Colt was one of the pseudonyms of award-winning author of Western fiction Nelson Coral Nye (1907 -) used; he wrote over 100 titles. This adventure stars Center-Fire Smith, or Potent Smith, a "What you'd call a celebrated characters in New Mex, A tough egg from all accounts. Shoots first an' talks it over later --- if there's anyone t' talk to". Tall, guant, yellow-haired, dressed in black with a pair of Walker Colts and sagging cartridge-belts, Centre-Fire travelled with his trusty steed, Buzzard Bait. Known to have aimed and hit a villain between the eyes more than once!

New York, NY: Mayflower Books, 1979. 1st American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First American Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Blue boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF. DJ/NF; showing faint scratch marks & small loss to leading front edge. Originally published in French under the title Les Heros Solitaires de l'Atlantique. This book records remarkable lone sailors who have crossed the Atlantic singlehandedly. Biographies accompanied by photographs, some in color, capturing the challenge of the seas, the grace and beauty of the crafts and the men who manned them. Author Gerald Asaria is a writer, journalist, and editor of the World of Yachting yearbook.

London, UK: Pilot Press, 1945. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/NF w/faded spine. DJ/None. PO label to front cover verso, and sticker removal scar to rear cover verso. Frontispiece. Fold-out map (New) to rear. Primary resource. Anthology. A collection of 39 letters written to family, and notebooks penned by Charles Charles Robert Darwin (1809 - 1882) over near 5 years during the voyage aboard the Beagle begun 1931. Volume, edited by Emma Nora Barlow (née Darwin) (1885 - 1989), granddaughter of Darwin, presents previously unpublished materials. A record of developing thoughts.