Published by Praeger Publishers (1975), New York, 1975
Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.
HC. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. B&W and color illustrations (illustrator). 160pp ISBN 0275526704 This book tells the story of Scott's last expedition. Herbert Ponting was the "camera artist" of the expedition, and his photographs are a marvelous record of this epic exploration. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).
Published by New York & Washington. Praeger. 1975, 1975
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 25cm, 2nd prtg., 160p. Extensively illustrated with plates and illustrations from photographs, blue boards, fine in very good to fine jacket (S6).
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 160pp. 10 x 7.5 inches approx. Fully illustrated. VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD.
Published by Book Club Associates, London, 1975
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Hardback. Book Club Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Mild age-toning to dustjacket. Previous owner's blind stamp to front free endpaper. Introduction by Sir Peter Scott. 160 pages. A photographic record of the tragic Terra Nova expedition of 1910-1913. Herbert Ponting was the official photographer who was with the expedition until the departure of Scott and his men for the final leg of the trek. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Published by Humanities Press, New York, New York, 1967
Seller: Bygone Pages, Aurora, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Published in United States. This is a nonfiction history book about the Antarctic region called Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic 1901-1904, copyright 1967, first published, hard cover, dust jacket, written by Edward Wilson, with a foreward by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and edited by Ann Savours. The books dust jakcet has usual library markings, remnants of some scotch tape and edge tears, otherwise in good condition in a new archival mylar wrap. The book itself has usual library markings, scotch tape marks a tears where dust jacket was once taped to inside boards, otherwise in good condition with tight binding, nice 47 watercolor plates, and 416 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by Polar Publishing, University of Cambridge, UK, 1995
Seller: NorWest Books (UK), Minehead, United Kingdom
First Edition
Pictorial Card. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as published). 1st Edition. 1V + 140 Pages, Portrait Of Roberts On Front Cover. An Unmarked "Vg" Book. Not Ex Library.
Published by London Blandford Press, 1966
4to. Dark blue cloth, with gilt titles and decoration. In fair dustwrapper. With Wilson's paintings and sketches throughout. An ex-library book, with the usual marks and labels, and thumb-marking to edges, etc., but still sound. pp. 416.
Publication Date: 2007
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. 2007, London, Ashgate for The Hakluyt Society, small 4to, ppx + 404, black and white illustrations, blue cloth in dustwrapper. This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals from the period 1775-1874. The first of these is the journal of a participant in a Spanish expedition sent from Mexico to explore the north-west coast of America. From the outset, difficulties plagued the voyage. Bodega's ship, a small schooner named Sonora, was not designed for open-ocean voyaging. A landing party was attacked and killed; midway into the voyage the Sonora became separated from her flagship; and later she was nearly capsized by a massive wave. Bodega's journal records the voyage's travails, hardships, discoveries and eventual return. Next comes the journal of Commander Stokes, who served in command of HMS Beagle, under Captain P. P. King during the survey of the Straits of Magellan in 1827. This is an account of a detached operation, in very difficult weather conditions, in the western part of the strait. It is introduced by remarks on the expedition and the hydrographic history of the strait from its discovery to the inception of the survey and supplemented by remarks from Captain King's account and also that of the clerk, Macdouall. The third text is the journal of a young midshipman in HMS Chanticleer, a small vessel commanded by Henry Foster, RN, who had recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his scientific work in the Arctic. The voyage of 1828-31 was to make observations in the South Atlantic to determine the shape of the Earth and to ascertain the longitudes of a number of ports. Kay's lively diary describes the Chanticleer's encounters with warships of the Brazilian navy, largely manned by Englishmen. He records his struggle to take observations at Deception Island during gales and snowstorms, and near Cape Horn in fierce squalls and constant chilling rain, nevertheless remaining cheerful in the company of his fellow midshipmen. The final piece is the diary of Jacob Wainwright, the young African freed slave who carved the inscription on the tree beneath which David Livingstone's heart was buried, covering his journey back to the coast with the body. This remarkable record throws important light on conditions in East Africa in the 1870s as well as on the story of Livingstone and the ulimately tragic life of Wainwright himself. Here published for the first time in English, it also throws some odd lights on Victorian missionary and publishing activities.