Search Results: Explorers & Arctic Studies from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1961. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Top spine damage, lower spine discoloration. Top page block darkening smudge.. 1 Black, blue cloth over boards. 323 p. 22 cm. B&W archival photo sections, frontispiece. Double page map: Greenland, Northeastern Canada. U.S. Major General Adolphus Washington Greely's tragic arctic exploration story only began to emerge with this volume in the late 1950s. Earlier accounts were obscured by "wishful fantasy and sensational journalism" (from author's preface). Also known more properly as the "Lady Franklin Bay Expedition", author Alden Todd, at age 10, met Gen. Greeley who was then 80, and a friend of his grandfather. As an adult he researched the truth of the Greely arctic exploit.

Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Same date, title & copyright pgs. No additional printing noted.. Hard cover. Very good in poor dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Bookplate glue toning. Slight edge wear. Top and bottom spine ends slightly sun-faded. Fine text pages and maps. Pieces of jacket neatly taped inside book.. Raisz, Erwin (Maps by), and Greene, Bertram (Drawings by).. 1 First edition. 680 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. Durable red buckram over boards. Front: gold and blue compass. Blue spine title box, gold titles. Blue top page block. Single-volume classic biography of the 15th century sailor-explorer long credited with discovering the New World of the North American Continent, landing in 1492. Author and Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison was also a sailor and, as part of his research, made a similar journey aboard facsimile ships, adding to the book's authenticity, the reader's sense of being there with Columbus.

Archaeology / Anthropology / Eskimos / Alaska / Antiquities. J Louis Giddings (d.1964), professor at Brown University, director of its Haffenreffer Museum, was an excavator of archaeologic sites in Western Alaska. His other publications: The Archaeology of Cape Denbigh, Kobuk River People, Forest Eskimos. Re-issued in 1985 by University of Washington Press. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Numerous B&W photos. Minor short underlinings in pencil.

New York.: The Macmillan Company., 1950. Third Printing 1944 edition.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Unmarked interior. Page block soiling, foxing. Clean text pages. Tightly bound. Jacket has short tears, soiling.. 1 Light blue cloth over boards. xvi, 556 p. 20 cm. B&W diagrams, photos. Author Introduction. Index. Arctic Explorer Vilhjarmur Stefansson originated this book for practical use on survival, under the direction of the Chief of the Air Corps, United States Army. It is more. So extensive is Stefansson's experience and range of interests, the result is an absorbing Arctic history, with tales of adventure, changing attitudes, heroism, exploration, nature, science, human interest, and the practical details of geography, climate. At the back, diagrams illustrate building a snow house (a.k.a. igloo), and photos follow.

New York.: Random House., 1978. First edition. Library binding. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Age-toning minor. Spine ends have minor wear. Discard from the Olive G Pettis Library in Goshen NH.. 1 32 p. Detailed color drawings. Audience: Children/juvenile. Biographical account of explorer Christopher Columbus with informative, colorful illlustrations showing overviews of geographic locations and scenes offering a perspective not usually found in youth-oriented accounts. Artwork includes a cutaway of one of the 15th century sailing ships, individual images of the crew, noting their jobs aboard ship, villages in the new world, vegetables found there, and the shipwreck of the Santa Maria.

A Simon & Schuster / Madison Press Book., 1991. First edition. Probable 1st.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Slight DJ edge wear to sealer.. Christopher, Peter (Photographs by). 1 Navy blue cloth over boards; gold stamped titles, spine and front. Numerous color illustrations, maps. Audience: General/trade. Nautical historic recreation: Dyson and Christopher beginning in 1988, set out to answer questions about Columbus: Who was he and why did he set out across 'the green sea of darkness'? In 1990, they joined a crew of Spanish nautical students aboard an authentic replica of the caravel, Nina, to recreate the voyage of 1492 across the Atlantic Ocean. Controversy has always followed Columbus and his claims; there is no less after this research, but there are some answers, leaving Columbus more human than iconic. Stunning in both text and the 250 visuals presented.

New York.: The Macmillan Company. Printed in Sweden., 1967. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Slipcase rather than jacket, with lower corner edge 6-in. tear. Light slopcase sun-fade. Top front case bump, exposing board slightly.. 1 Red smooth leatherette over boards; front gold stamped cross; spine gold-stamped titles. Text in English, Swedish. 207 p. 29 cm. Lithograph quality Illustrations, Maps, Portraits, Facsimiles. Matt-coated paper. High quality. Sources. Bibliography. Index. Exploration: Extended title, "...and his four voyages westward to the Indies according to contemporary sources". The end papers are illustrated with a facsimile copy of the first Barcelona printing of Columbus's 1493 letter of his discovery (in Spanish). This collection is extraordinarily rendered. The chronology at back begins in 1451 with the births of both Isabella, future Queen of Castile, at Madrigal, and of Cristoforo Columbo at Genoa. It ends with the death of Columbus in 1506 at Valladolid.… Read More

Knopf Publishing Group., 1990. First edition. No number line.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Price clipped.. 1 Cloth and paper over boards. 453 p. Audience: General/trade. Historical biography: Published on the eve of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's landfall on the North American coast, Kirkpatrick Sale research original documents and the ecological transformation of the lands and coast upon which he laid claims, and which changed the worldview.

Boston / New York / Chicago: Educational Publishing Company, 1895. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Corner bumps, exposing cardboard.. 0 158 p. Includes illustrations. Sturdy blue paper covered boards; Gray blue-flecked printed paper covered boards. 5.25x7.5in. back cover series list. Author also of "American History Stories", "Cortez and Montezuma", etc.

Hauppauge NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1998. U.S. Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Price sticker residue, back cover.. 0 32 p. Numerous color illustrations. Stiff pictorial wraps. The story of England's most celebrated merchant adventurer in the Age of Discovery, (front cover notes). Sir Francis Drake b. between 1539 and 1545 in England, went on his first voyage to Caribbean as jr. officer in 1566, a Capt. John Hawkins slave trade voyage. Later. circumnavigated the globe, 1577-1580, knighted, d. 1596. All here, McNews style for readers of all ages. Timeline. Historic images.

New York.: Crown Publishers., 1972. 2nd printing, 1971 American edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Some chipping on DJ, repaired from inside w/ clear tape. Extensive foxing on right edges; less on top edge. Clean inside. Slight spotting discolorations to blue cloth covered boards.. 1 277 p. 28 cm. Maps, B&W and color photos. Bibliography. Index. Dedicated to the future of Greenlanders, this discusses history, language, arctic conditions, food gathering, interaction with whites over the centuries, the environment, culture, traditions, and view of life among Eskimo populations. The author first studied Eskimo culture 35 years before writing this work. Denmark had been first to explore and colonize Greenland, to its west. Here he compiles his own observations, those studies by numerous others, and a great photos and other illustrations edifying the polar region and those who make their homes there.

New York.: G.P. Putnam's., 2000. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 1 Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 354 p. Audience: General/trade. Arctic Exploration. Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, 1881-1884. Mostly American soldiers, 25 men went north to establish a scientific base; after 3 years, 6 returned alive.

Heroic literature of the Viking Age is based on an unsettled society accustomed to violence and shortness of life. Short jacker edge tears. Jacket phto: Sigtuna warrior head, British Museum.

New York: Dial Press, 1947. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. Harrison, Richard Edes (Maps designed by), and Faye, Harold (Map art by).. 1 Copper-colored cloth over boards. Gold spine titles; xii, 788 p. 22 cm. Includes Maps. One of the world's greatest explorers, Vilhjalmur Stefansson first voyaged to the Arctic in 1904. He has been awarded international by several governments and by Geographical Societies. He proved in 1912 success in exploration combined native ideas with modern science, when he spent 53 months in the Arctic wastes. Admiral Robert E Peary was an admirer. Accounts from the earliest Mediterranean discoveries and North America to finding the South and North Poles.

Youth Audience: Historical fiction featuring a youth who travels across south central asia exploring with Marco Polo. The B&W artwork is wonderful, and the narrative inventive. However the book's cover condition has suffered water and general surface damage, leaving the iinterior pages still very readable, and binding intact. Good reding copy.

New York.: W.W. Norton & Company., 1960. 1st American Edition. Author copyright, 1959, Hollis & Carter.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor spine darkening. Light reading wear. Tucked inside, typed book review by Raymond Holden.. 1 First edition. Light blue cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 374p. 19 cm. B&W photos, facsimiles. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Historical overview of efforts by explorers in the North and South Polar Regions (shown in end paper maps), beginning with the Greeks and Norsemen, through both World Wars. Author L.P. Kid win was Director of the Royal Geographic Society at the time of this publication. Reviewer Holden's remarks that this history, "serves admirably, and will for some time continue to fill a conspicuous gap in the literature of the poles."

Viking Books, 1986. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library.. 0 Cloth & paper over boards. 240 p. Historical novel, 1682: La Salle set out with 22 Frenchmen, 18 Indians, and "his always grumbling, epileptic cartographer, Pierre Goupil, " to chart the length of the Mississippi River. It ends 5 years later. Written in a diary format by the explorer La Salle.

Knopf Publishing Group, 1991. First edition. No number line.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Light top edge soiling. Else fine.. Lindroth, David (Maps by).. 1 Brown cloth and paper over boards. 318 p. B&W illustrations. Audience: General/trade. History / Biography: Author is Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist. His research encompassed documents of the era of Christopher Columbus, theories and suppositions by historians, and on updated archaeological evidence. Much mystery had surrounded Columbus and his audacious plan to search on a 5th voyage for the Indies by sailing westward from Europe. Why did he fail as a governor of the subsequently discovered colony?

New York.: Viking Books., 2003. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has short edge wear, tear, repaired from inside.. 1 Paper over boards. 452p. B&W photo sections. Line art maps w/ gray. Audience: General/trade. Explorers / Ethnology, 19th century. The sea was America's first frontier, and in this tale, the Pacific Ocean. From 1838-1842, six sailing vessels and crews including botanists, geologists, map makers, biologists set out to plant the American flag wherever they landed. Commanded by Lt. Charles Wilkes, they achieved much: charting islands, finding the Columbia River, naming Antarctica, exploring Hawaii's volcanoes, bringing home thousands of specimens, many now in the Smithsonian collections. Author Nathaniel Philbrick (Heart of the Sea) combines scholarship with human drama.

New York.: M.W. Jones., 1891. Entered 1890, Library of Congress.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Blemishes (small) to spine, edgewear to spine ends and corners. Front lower spine wiggle.. 1 539 p. Includes illustrations. Olive tightly woven cloth over boards, gilt titles on spine, unadorned; newsprint quality paper (fragile); Small yellow flower print endpapers. 24 Illustrations plus frontispiece portrait of Stanley; Detailed Table of Contents. Subtitle: "Stanley's expedition to find Livingstone, his crossing the continent and exploration of the Congo from its headwaters to the ocean, his establishment of the Congo Free State, and his last great achievement, the discovery and deliverance of Emin asha. "