Natural history and human involvement in the polar regions of the Arctic and Antarctic.
Geology, weather, wildlife and scientific exploration.
From the Poles to the sub-antarctic and sub-arctic islands
A record of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program, in images and text.
Scott Base, McMurdo Sound, Ross Ice Shelf
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with minor edge chipping or short tears.
$20 C/D
Reed 1964 first edition, 90pp + 207 photos, map end papers.
[#5308 ]
Five chapters on the greats of Antarctic exploration; Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, Byrd, Fuchs and Hillary.
antarctica, south pole, expeditions
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Name to fep, price clipped jacket, faint foxing to prelims and closed edges.
$30 C/B
Evans 1958 first edition, 191pp + plates.
[#5309]
Dorothy Braxton, a female journalist (the first) makes it to Antarctica on the Magga Dan via the Sub-Antarctic Islands.
ANARE, New Zealand, Auckland Island, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island
VG hard back in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Reed 1969. First Edition, 201pp + plates
[#5664 ]
A study of the ecological risk to Antarctica and the conservation of its natural resources.
ISBN0725103906
antarctica, ecology, conservation, south pole, wildlife
VG softback
$15 B/C
Sun Books 1982 first edition, 125pp + plates in colour.
[#5310 ]
An account of two and a half years spent on the sub-arctic island of South Georgia in the Falklands.
ISBN 0091085101
Grytviken, King Edward Cove, arctic circle, north pole, polar
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Name to fep.
$30 C/C
Hutchinson 1971 first edition, 190pp + plates & colour frontis.
[#5311 ]
In July 1932 Gino Watkins, only 25 but already famous as an explorer, went to East Greenland with Rymill, Riley and Spencer Chapman to study meteorological conditions and to survey a tract of mountainous country.
The expedition opened with sudden tragedy: Watkins was drowned while out seal-hunting alone in his kayak.
His three companions decided to carry on with a modified programme of work, and for the next year, while two sledged or hunted, surveyed the coast or explored the interior, the third stayed alone at the base to keep up weather observations.
A vivid account of life among the Eskimo, of birds and plants, of solitude in the snow, and the habits of sledging dogs.
Perilous boat journeys, the thrills of navigating and rolling a kayak, methods of hunting seal and bear, these are but a few of the events in this absorbing story.
arctic, arctic circle, greenland
VG hardback with G dust jacket with chipped top edge.
$15 C/B
Vanguard Library/ Chatto 1953, 244pp.
[#181 ]
The Story of British Research in the Southern Seas.
antarctic circle, exploration, subantarctic
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light surface insect damage to cloth, name to fep.
$45 C/C
Odhams 1963 first edition, 255pp+ plates.
[#5312 ]
Graeme Connell was a young, disillusioned small town newspaper journalist who went to Antarctica with the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program.
He recounts his professional, and personal, experiences during his stay on the ice.
ISBN9780987692207
Scott Base, Vanda Station, Operation Deep Freeze
VG softback
$30 B/C
Polished Publishing Group 2011, 290pp.
[#4228 ]
A new biography of Scott based on detailed research which gives fresh insights to the Discovery and Terra Nova expeditions.
ISBN9780007219650
antarctic, south pole, polar, biography, Robert Falcon Scott
VG softback
$20 C/C
HarperCollins 2005 first edition, 637pp.
[#3918 ]
The only authoritative account by an experienced aviation writer of the Air New Zealand Erebus tragedy.
ISBN 0723306419
Antarctic, aviation disaster, Mt Erebus, DC-10
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$30 C/C
Whitcoulls 1980 first edition, 278pp + plates.
[#5180 ]
An investigation into the crash of Flight 901, an Air New Zealand DC 10 tourist plane, into Mount Erebus in Antarctica, and the official reports that followed.
ISBN0002172135
Mt Erebus, Air New Zealand, DC10, McMurdo, antarctic, erebus, aviation
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Collins 1984 first edition, 296pp + plates, map endpapers.[#3570 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Collins 1984 first reprint, 296pp + plates, map endpapers.[#5313 ]
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Collins 1984 first reprint, 296pp + plates, map endpapers.[#2902 ]
VG- softback with sewn binding
$10 A/B
Collins Fontana 1985 first softcover, 296pp + plates. [#2652 ]
Investigation into the Flight 901 air disaster in Antarctica, with reference to the Royal Commission.
ISBN0340320249
Mt Erebus, Air New Zealand, DC10, McMurdo
FINE softback, sewn into pictorial wrappers.
$25 C/C
Hodder 1983 first softback printing, 347 pages.
[#2292, 2485 ]
FINE softback, sewn into pictorial wrappers.
$25 C/C
Hodder 1990 reprint, 347 pages.
[#2292B ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Hodder 1983 reprint, 347 pages.
[#3569]
Scott's final fateful attempt to reach the South Pole.
Robert Falcon Scott, south pole, antarctic, antarctica
G only hardback, upper joint split at ends, boards rubbed to edges, backstrip fragile, paper scar to fep, rubber name stamps, soiled closed edges.
$10 C/B
Collins 1926 hardcover, xiv 284pp + maps and adverts.
[#182 ]
Titled Journey to the Polar Sea 1819-1822 to spine.
Everyman edition, with an introduction by Captain R F Scott.
The search for the Northwest Passage.
VG- cloth hardback, split at head of upper joint, no dust jacket.
$25 A/B
Dent/Dutton undated (1924?) first thus edition, x 434pp + maps.
[#5283 ]
Reminiscences of the years activities in Repulse Bay and Igloolik in Canada's Arctic circle, amongst the Inuit eskimo.
ISBN 0888302258
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket.
Library stamps to title and verso only, one leaf starting to detach, minor tape mark to lower board.
Dust jacket under plastic sleeve with sunned spine and shelf mark.
$10 C/B
Hurtig 1982 first edition hardcover, 192pp, photos in text, map endpapers.
[#5314 ]
In 2001, Kim Griggs was selected to go to Antarctica as a journalist for Antarctica New Zealand's media programme. This is funny, elegant and observant writing about one New Zealand woman's adventure in Antarctica. She interleaves a lively and entertaining account of her own journey and the people she met there with the many other connections between Antarctica and New Zealand.
Includes two eight-page colour sections of fascinating and candid shots of Antarctica and some of the New Zealanders who work there.
ISBN9781869415761
Scott Base, McMurdo, Erebus,
VG softback
$15 C/B
Random House 2003,156pp.
[#3532 ]
One year at Scott Base, Antarctica: a personal impresson.
new zealand, south pole
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket with slight fade to spine.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1968 first edition, 191pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#5315]
Edmund Hillary's own account of his Transantarctic Expedition.
antarctic, south pole, crossing the pole
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket, lightly creased front board, inscription to fep, dust jacket price clipped with chipping loss at head of spine and corner tips.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1961 second impression of first edition, 255pp + plates.
[#5316 ]
Scott and Amundsen's race to the South Pole, 1911-1912.
ISBN0330288164
antarctica, robert falcon scott, roald amundsen
G+ trade paperback with top inch of first page removed.
$9 C/C
Pan 1985, 565pp + plates.
[#2042 ]
The MV Greenpeace expedition to monitor the ecological balance in Antarctica, totally unsupported by any of the Governmental outposts on the continent
ISBN1869410203
VG+ softback
$20 B/C
Century Hutchinson 1988 first edition, 126pp + colour plates.
[#5317 ]
A study of the Australian Scientific Research Stations in Antarctica, and the work they conduct in the field.
Unmarked copy illustrated with b&w and colour photos.
Antarctic, South Pole, Polar, Geology, Balleny Islands, Vestfold, Wilkes Coast, Macquarie Island, Mawson Station, Heard Island, birds, animals, natural history
VG+ hardback in blue cloth, with no dust jacket.
$20 B/D
Oxford University Press 1957 first edition, 152pp.
[#4040 ]
The yacht Solo's expedition for the Oceanic Research Foundation to the Antarctic Balleny Islands and Cape Adare.
ISBN 0002166720
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket which is lightly watermarked to top edges.
$20 C/C
Collins 1979 first edition, 144pp + colour plates.
[#5318 ]
"An arctic expedition, disaster, heroic rescue, and escape from the frigid,desolate desert that is Greenland's great ice cap."
ISBN
keywords
VG- hardback in G- dust jacket with sunned spine, large chip top left front panel with a tear across the front, rear panel with tears and some small loss.
$20 C/C
Robert Hale & Co. 1954 first edition,155pp + plates.
[#5319 ]
Translated from the French by Richard Graves.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Free end paper clipped, light foxing to prelims.
Dust jacket with lightly soiled lower panel and short edge tears to joints.
$20 C/C
Travel Book Club undated, first thus, 206pp + many plates.
[#5320 ]
U.S. Antarctic Program USA, antarctica, biology, oceanography, marine geology, geophysics, geology, meteorology
VG- softback with lightly soiled wraps.
$20 B/C
National Science Foundation 1977, 216pp.
[#5321 ]
True account of a year in Antarctica, from the first woman to lead Australia's Antarctic research station, Mawson.
Bright and passionate, Diana Patterson was searching for her path in life when she was bitten by the Antarctic bug in her late twenties. She nursed her secret ambition and with dogged determination set her sights on becoming station leader at the Australian base Mawson.
After being refused four times, at the age of 38 she became the first woman in charge of this small, mostly male community of glaciologists, physicists, biologists and tradies, in each other's pockets 24/7, thousands of miles from the comforts of home.
ISBN9780733324239
antarctic, australia, south pole, antarctica, science
VG softback
$30 C/C
ABC Books 2010, 358pp + plates.
[#3544 ]
An account of two years at Scott Base, Antarctica when the New Zealanders were still using huskies as sled dogs.
Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and line illustrations by Maurice Conly.
ISBN0723305552
new zealand antarctic program, dogs on the ice, photo journalism.
VG hardback in VG dustjacket.
$20 B/C
Whitcoulls 1978 First Edition, 112pp.
[#4458 ]
An account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic
One of the fullest accounts of Scott's expedition.
G+ hardback.
Spine edges and corners rubbed and frayed, front hinge reinforced with pasted paper, lacks prelims, starts with frontis, minor foxing, rear hinge cracked, some plates have small rubber stamp to blank margins or are detached.
A good reading or reference copy.
$30 C/C
Duckworth September 1935 reprint, cloth with printed cover, xxvi 305 (+1) pp+ plates.
[#5322 ]
VG- hardback, cloth rubbed and lightly soiled, small fray head of spine, foxed prelims.
$35 C/C
Duckworth September 1949 reprint, xviii 300pp+ CXXXII plates.
[#5323 ]
A Glaswegians ten years as a fur hunter in Canada's north amongst the Eskimos.
ISBN 0261100122
Inuit, Franklin, Perry Island, Canadian northern provinces, anthropology
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Hinges loose, jacket has splits at joint and corner ends, some tape oxide to endpapers, some foxing.
$15 C/C
MacGibbon & Kee 1972 first edition, 285pp + colour plates.
[#5324 ]
An account of factory whaling in the southern oceans south of South Georgia off the coast of South America and the Antarctic.
whales, whaling, south atlantic, weddell sea, antarctica
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Reprint Society 1958, 255pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#4439 ]
Volume One is Scott's journals showing the human tragedy, while Volume Two has the Scientific Reports and Journals of Dr. E. A. Wilson and the other surviving members of this disastrous expedition to the South Pole.
south pole, antarctica, Robert Falcon Scott
G+ cloth bound set with decorative boards.
Some mild foxing, covers faded and slightly soiled.
Vol 1 lacks the rear folding map, but the one in Vol. 2 is present, with a repaired tear not affecting the printed map area.
$75 C/C
MacMillan 1913, first thus edition, xviii 497+ x 431pages + advertisements, plates and maps.
[#3990]
Being the cheap 1 volume edition comprising just Scott's Journals. With a biographical introduction by JM Barrie, some appendices, photographs etc.
G+ hardback with rubbed joints, split at head of upper joint, sunned and faded spine, hinges starting to open, foxing to the cheap paper, name to half title. No dust jacket. A good reading copy.
$10 C/C
John Murray, June 1927, xxvi 521pp+ photos.[#2847 antarctic, exploration, polar ]
The life and death of Captain Scott's naturalist, a talented artist, who captured the beauty and serenity of the Antarctic with his pen and brush.
VG hardback in VG+ unclipped dust jacket. Tape rust to endpapers and half title.
$25 C/C
John Murray 1959 reprint. 310 pages + plates and folding map.[#2433 ]
G+ hardback with no dust jacket. Endpaper removed. Spine browned. Mild foxing.
$20 C/C
John Murray 1939 reprint. 301 pages + plates and folding map.[#2991 ]
Surveys the life and work of Russians within the Arctic areas of the (former) Soviet Union, including a chapter on the Gulags.
USSR, CCCP, history
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Hutchinson 1937, 288pp + plates + folding maps + adverts at rear, decorative endpapers.
[#5325 ]
Observations in Antarctica by the wife of an Antarctic zoologist.
Pam paid particular attention to the Adelie penguins and their main predator, the skua.
She also observed her fellow researchers and the tough life they led on the ice.
ISBN058900686
natural history, ornithology
VG hardback in VG dut jacket
$15 C/B
Reed 1971 first edition, 166pp.
[#3762 ]