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Fiddletown, CA:: Gaby Press,, (2009). SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. "This is a novel about culture shock, love, loss, identify, belonging, the Inuit people, and the birth of the Nunavut Territory in Arctic Canada." Although it is a work of fiction, it draws on research and years… Read more about this item

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (2018). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The first full-length non-fiction work by this documentary film-maker, the story of a scrappy teenager who stowed away on Admiral Byrd's flagship . "It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth,… Read more about this item

Palo Alto, CA:: The Wilderness Society and American West Publishing Co,, (1973). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in dark blue cloth in a near fine dust jacket. (some toning to the spine of the dj). First printing. A first-hand description of the Arctic - as it was and as it is - by a naturalist… Read more about this item

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, (1971.). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. 2nd printing. Canadian author's first novel, a modern classic which vividly portrays the beginning of the destruction of the traditional way of life of the Eskimos as they come into contact with white men. Based on stories passd down from elders about the… Read more about this item

Chicago:: Encyclopaedia Britannica Press,, (1961). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in red boards with gold lettering on spine in a very near fine dust jacket. Original price of $2.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. 190 pp. . First edition. An account of the American naval officer, aviator and polar explorer Richard Byrd which focuses on his… Read more about this item

Carmel, IN:: Cork Hill Press,, (2005). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a fine dust jacket (missing front endpaper). First edition. Novel spanning 200 years, from just before the arrival of the Russians in Alaska to the late 20th century, one which tells the story of "a native people struggling to meet the challenge of invaders… Read more about this item

Toronto, Ontario, Canada:: Key Porter Books,, (1990). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An account of a three month long odyssey in 1988 by a Canadian-Soviet team of adventurers, with the goal of linking polar regions in the west and east - starting in Siberia and ending on Canada's Ellesmere Island. INSCRIBED… Read more about this item

Shrewsbury, UK:: Swan Hill Press,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (embossed seal of previous owner). First printing. A combination of a history of polar exploration and an account of the author's own attempt to reach the North Pole. Illustrated with full-color photographs. Select bibliography, index. 144 pp.

Minneapolis:: Milkweed Editions,, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. INSCRIBED by Kantner on the half-title page. "His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the 1950s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Through… Read more about this item

New York:: Norton,, (1999). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 2nd printing. An attractive new edition of this classic account of Shackleton's 1914-1916 Antarctic expedition by the commander of the ship, Endurance, and originally published in 1931. Includes a new preface by Patrick O'Brian. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xxvi, 310 pp.

Greenwich, Connecticut:: New York Graphic Society Publishers,, (1964). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease on front flap of dj). First printing. An account of the history of exploration of Antarctica, "beginning with the imaginative ideas of early Greek geographers, tells of the first South Seas voyages, the rugged adventures of the sealers… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, (2006). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. "In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few know the harrowing story of the Ross Sea party, Shackleton's support group dispatched to the other side… Read more about this item

Toronto & Oxford,: Oxford University Press,, 1985.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated boards.. First printing. Charming Inuit folktale illustrated with scenes from shadow puppets. Includes a page on how to create your own shadow puppet theater and 2 pages of templates. Oblong format. 32 pp.

Mankato, MN:: Creative Editions,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a good dust jacket (tear along fold of back cover of dj) . First printing. A retelling of an Inuit creation myth which recounts how the wolf and the caribou came to be brothers. Retold by Jessell and illustrated with his full-color, full-page and double-page paintings.… Read more about this item

Edmonton, Canada: : Hurtig Publishers,, (1982.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.). First printing. A year's diary entries (actually an amalgam of the many years she lived in Igloolik and Repulse Bay), written by an American-born Canadian living a semi-reclusive life in the Northwest Territories, and which reflect a vanishing Arctic way… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2013.). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A true account of heroism and determination both during World War II and recently: "On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane on a routine flight slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to… Read more about this item

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. In 1988, at the age of 50, Thayer became the first woman to ski solo to the North Pole, her only companion a black husky named Charlie. Illustrated with a map and full-color photographs. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary.… Read more about this item

New York:: Hyperion,, (2001.). SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (the pen used in signing scored the title page.). Later printing. The true of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician stranded at a South Pole research station who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer until she could be airlifted out several months later. In… Read more about this item

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, (1971.). Hardcover -. Very good in a good dust jacket (some rubbing to the dust jacket.). Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). Canadian author's first novel, a modern classic which vividly portrays the beginning of the destruction of the traditional way of life of the Eskimos… Read more about this item

New York:: Walker,, (1972.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First US printing. At age 18, Pyrde, an orphan, ex-merchant seaman, disgruntled factory worker, anwered an ad for a fur trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, and emigrated to Canada, where he spent the next 12 years living in some of the most… Read more about this item