Search Results: Antarctic, Arctic from Lawrence Jones

Wellington: Millwood Press, 1981. xvii, 192pp, refrences, bw ills, maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Ten of the lesser known Antarctic explorers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: George G Harrap, 1931. 440pp, index, appendix, tables, bw ills, maps. Or blue cloth. Slight wear to corners and top/bottom of spine. Geography of Australia, NZ, the Pacific Islands and Antarctica.. Apparent First. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Bloomsbury, 2003. xvi, 303pp, bibliography, source notes, appendicesbw ills, maps. Or boards in jacket. Light even toning to page edges, slightest of edge wear to jacket. In 1925 when a diptheria epidemic broke out in Nome, Alaska, a relay of dogsleds was set up to transport supplies of desperately needed serum almost 700 miles across mountains, rivers, and the treacherous ice of Norton Sound through a blizzard at 60 degrees below zero.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1972. xiii, 306pp, index, notes, bw ills. Or cloth in jacket. Some silverfishing to edges and folds of jacket, otherwise nice. Arctic explorer Elisha Kane (1820-57) went further north than ever before setting the pattern for Arctic exploration until modern times.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press., 2008. xxiv, 168pp, index, appendices, bw ills, maps. Black cloth in jacket. Near new. Present day Nunavut Inuit tells their stories passed down from their ancestors of the first encounters with European explorers. From Frobisher in 1576 and the more recent (19th century) expeditions of Parry, Ross, Franklin and Amundsen.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.