Search Results: Authors starting with T from Polar Books

George G Harrap, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1928 reprint of 1927 Edition: x, 277 pages. Illustrated. 19 adventurers including Amundsen, Charcot, Lawrence of Arabia, Steffensan and more. Shelfware, some spotting to page edges, contents clean. Second impression of the First Edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Exploration; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3373. .

John Murray, London, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Impression: xii, 300 pages, illustrated, 33 b/w photos, folding map at end. Original covers, some foxing throughout, mainly to page edges. Shelf wear covers fraying, end paper beginning to split but text block still tight. "Written by Harold Lincoln Tangye, one of the most enlightened contributors to the literature of African affairs, this work contains a most illuminating survey of Sudanese history, ethnology, topography, and administration." (From the Publishers). Second impression of the First Edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Exploration; Anthropology. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3552. .

Methuen & Co, 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 1st Edition: xv, 524pp, illustrated, 4 half-tone plates, 164 text illustrations, front endpaper map. Green cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in unclipped dustjacket. "Extensive study based on 12 years' residence and travel in the country; including a survey of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and the Alaska Highway." - Arctic Bibliography 26639. Parts and chapters : Part I: Position, Discovery, and General Physical Features. 1. Introduction; 2. Exploration of Canada; 3. Structure and Geology; 4. Climates of Canada; 5. Soils and Natural Vegetaion. Part II. 6. The Eastern Settlements in the Populous Zone; 7. The Prairie Regions; 8. Southern British Columbia; 9. Transition Areas (Newfoundland, Clay Belt, Peace River); 10. Eastern Pioneer Lands; 11. Western Pioneer Lands; 12. The Tundra Lands. Part III 13. The Spread of Settlement; 14. Fishing and the Fur Trade [fishing pp.338-347, fur trade pp.347-357]; 15. Forests,… Read More

Bluntisham Books, Erskine Press, UK, 1977. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1977 Bluntisham Edition: xv 464 pages, illustrated b/w photos, maps, including a large folding map at the end of the book. Original covers, no dust jacket. A beautifully produced book matching very closely the character and quality of the original first edition. A lovely more affordable edition of an Antarctic classic. Previous owner small neat inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. 'Taylor was a geologist on the 1910-12 expedition to the Antarctic which, despite the tragedy was of major scientific interest.' Spence 1183. An important account of Scott's last expedition including many illustrations not included in Scott. Taylor was the geologist and also the wittiest member of Scott's Terra Nova expedition, 1910-13. He had devices and notebooks hanging out of every pocket and a passion for being well equipped. He was enraptured with geology and… Read More

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition, xv 464 pages 45 plates including photographic frontispiece, 61 photographs, 7 drawings, 110 illustrations in text , 7 maps, (1 coloured folding). Green cloth, gilt titling to spine, front covered lettered in yellow with vignette of Emperor penguin and chick. This is the first edition first issue without the author's preface pp.iii-iv. Shelf wear, some fading to front cover, spine cover split and beginning to fray, bumping to corners. Contents clean. 'Taylor was a geologist on the 1910-12 expedition to the Antarctic which, despite the tragedy was of major scientific interest.' Spence 1183. An important and scarce primary account of Scott's last expedition, including many illustrations not included in Scott. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed… Read More

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1896. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1896, Twenty-first thousand Edition: 280 pages plus 8 pages publishers adverts. Original covers. Shelf wear, gift inscription dated 1905 verso front cover, contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Self Help & Motivation; Psychology & Psychiatry. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3537. .

Arthur Barker Limited, London, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. 1st Edition; 278 pages, illustrated, b/w photographs. Original hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers have remnants of old Sellotape, covers slightly faded top and bottom of spine. Contents clean. Biography of the polar explorer, who went on expeditions with Stefansson and Shackleton and made pioneering air flights in both the Arctic and Antarctic. George Hubert Wilkins (1888 - 1958), was an Australian-born British explorer who advanced the use of the airplane and pioneered the use of the submarine for polar research, exploring both poles. Written from Wilkins diaries and notes. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2891. .

Constable & Co. Limited, 1912. Cloth. Very Good. 1st UK Edition; xvi, 415pp, illustrated, 32 b/w plates, 125 line illustrations including maps. Green cloth covers with gilt musk ox head to front cover and gilt titling to spine. The author's account of his six-month canoe journey up the Peace and Mackenzie Rivers. Heavily illustrated with many drawings by the author and many photographs. In this classic work of hunting and exploration, Seton and his expedition traveled to northern Alberta and beyond, canoeing on the Athabaska River. While Seton devotes much study to the natural history of the region, there are episodes of hunting moose, caribou and musk ox. Ex SPRI library, SPRI cancelled stamp to fep and title page otherwise no other markings. Shelfware, spine slightly sunned, pages clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2854. . Read More

Titus Wilson & Son Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Edition; [11]159 pages, illustrated 12 b/w plates, original covers in unclipped illustrated dust jacket. [Neate T22: Climbing memoirs of a noted British alpinist between the wars. Written as a tribute to her guide, and published posthumously by her friends]. As New, appears unread. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3022. .

Mosaic Publications, New York, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st US Edition: 208 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs, maps. Pictorial softback. Front cover sliced open and repaired (probably when it was removed from its packaging). Otherwise in as Very Good condition. Frank Worsley was the captain of the ship Endurance, and played a huge role in saving all hands during the 1915 Exploration of Antarctica. This is the first USA edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0889626782. ISBN/EAN: 9780889626782. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 908. . 9780889626782

Allen Lane, Penguin Books, London, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/Very Good. 1st Edition; xiv, 331 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 1 map. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Appears unread. Most literature relating to R F Scott's Antarctic explorations of the early 1900s have concentrated on those people closest to the leader, particularly those who died with him on their ill-fated polar trek. While these figures remain prominent in Thomson's account, he has undertaken a collective biography of other team members, including those in the background in England, the patrons and organisers. His innovative study reveals much that is new regarding the character of the expedition members he examines closely. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; 1900-1920; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0713910348. ISBN/EAN: 9780713910346. Pictures of this item not already displayed here… Read More

Book Club Associates, 1975. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Fine. Book Club Associates Edition: x, 288pp plus illustrations. Brown cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in pictorial unclipped dustjacket. The book is the history of all the efforts to find the north-west passage over five centuries. From the dustjacket flap. " The vision was clear, a trading route across the top of the world, a shipping lane North of America to the fabulous riches of Cathay. The way was unknown, unmapped, and its defences were formidable. But for centuries men were to argue, to search, to suffer and to die in the attempt to trace this route that was known only as an idea, a mythology a potent name the North West passage. The search led them into unsuspected terrors, into seas and lands of a hostility beyond belief. Seas in which mountains of ice swung irresistibly shores where towering cliffs of ice could entomb men and ships in their sudden thunderous collapse, lands so barren that it seemed nothing could endure… Read More

The Erskine Press, UK, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 144 pages plus publishers adverts. Softcover, illustrated with b/w photos, maps. As New, appears unread. In 1957 on the Antarctic Plateau Sir Edmund Hillary, the great New Zealand mountaineer, raced his expedition leader, Vivian Fuchs, to the South Pole for reasons that were never fully explained. Hillary's spin was that the Pole was there and he had time and fuel to get there first: so he did. Hillary's actions threw Fuchs' Trans Antarctic Expedition into confusion. When he then suggested that Fuchs halt his march across Antarctica at the Pole and return a year later to complete the historic crossing, Hillary appeared to be approaching a state of mutiny on the ice: he was roundly criticised by many interested in Antarctic affairs, except that at home in New Zealand his spin took root and has never been vigorously challenged. Examining records that could more fully explain why Hillary… Read More

Rikisprentsmidjan Gutenberg, 1946. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 4th Edition: iv, 295pp, illustrated, b/w and colour illustrations, 1 coloured folding map. Blue cloth covers with gilt crest and titling. A handbook to the Island of Iceland - geography, population, history, law, agriculture, fisheries, industry, communications, finance, religion etc. Pencil "April 1959 per C & R" on fep. Black specks to page edges. Contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Iceland; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2896. .

The University Press, Cambridge, 1946. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 232 pages, illustrated, 54 b/w photographs, 6 maps. Original covers, no dust jacket, contents clean. The first part of the book describes the author's mountaineering & exploring adventures in the Assam Himalayas whilst the second part tells of his soldering experiences during wartime. Neate T50: Exploration in the Assam Himalaya - Zemo Gap, Gori Chen, and adjacent peaks. The second part of the book deals with his wartime experiences with Albanian and Italian partisans. He is honoured annually in the Italian town of Belluno. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; 1940s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3085. .

Readers Union, London, 1937. Early Edition. Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Readers Union 1937 Edition: 235 pages, illustrated, b/w photo, maps. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers grubby, splitting, minor spotting to end papers, owners signature dated 1937 on half title otherwise contents clean. The account of the first successful climb of Nanda Devi in the Himalayas, then the highest mountain conquered by the author and Odell. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; India; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3086. .

Frederick Warne and Co.,, London, . Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Early Edition: circa 1872, illustrated, 4 photogravures (Windsor Castle, Hatfield House, Warwick Castle, Raglan Castle) Original covers, top page edge gilt, very minor spotting to page edges and toning to tissue guards, overall very clean and nice condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: History; Architecture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3508. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Librairie De Firmin-Didot, 1891. Early Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1891 Edition; French text, 231pp, illustrated, 93 wood engravings (many full page). Red cloth covers with spine decorated in gilt, marbled eps, pages gilt edged. Overview of the then current knowledge about the North Pole and the South Pole (one chapter on the South Pole) It covers the history of those regions and their explorers, as well as its fauna and native people. Covers faded. Pages age toned, foxing but suspect this is due to the type of paper used in the book (quite stiff). Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1989. .

The Travel Book Club, 1946. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. Travel Book Club Edition: 256pp, endpaper maps. Grey cloth covers with black titling to spine, no dustjacket. Story of Micky Ryan and his dream, one of the pioneers who opened the North of Canada between the wars. Shelfwear, bumped, minor stains to spine and spotting to page edges. Wrinkle to rear endpaper map. Contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2904. .

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1933. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 2nd, (School) Edition: 210pages. Illustrated, frontispiece 2 maps (1 front end paper. Blue cloth covers with black titling. Contents clean. Shelfware. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2908. .