1928-1961 A Collection of Tales of Travel, Adventure, and Exploration in Blue Cloth Bindings

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Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Eighteen volumes. This set contains: The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 1932. Popular edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-six plates, four in-text images, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. Written by Sir Ernest Shackleton, an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. The Voyages and Works of John Davis, the Navigator, c1960. Later edition. Illustrated with a folding facsimile frontispiece, seventeen images, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. Edited with an introduction and notes from Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham, a British explorer, author, and officer in the Royal Navy. Glacier Island: The Official Account of the British South Georgia Expedition 1954-1955, 1957. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fourteen plates, and four maps. Collated complete. Written by George Sutton, an English explorer and leader of this expedition. The Lonely South, 1956. First translated edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-four plates, and three maps. Collated complete. Written by Andre Migot, a French doctor, traveler and writer. Translated by Richard Graves, an English a collector of poems, a translator, essayist and correspondent. Two Against the Ice, 1957. Travel Book Club edition. With a map to the front of the text. Written by Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish polar explorer and writer best known for his expeditions to Greenland. Translated by Maurice Michael, a British translator. Fourteen Men: The Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition to Heard Island, 1951. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. Written by Arthur Scholes, an Australian explorer noted for this expedition. The White Road: A Survey of Polar Exploration, 1959. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twelve plates, with seven maps and plans. Collated complete. Written by Sir Archibald Laurence Patrick Kirwan, a British archaeologist and geographer. Polar Exploration, 1939. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eight plates, and eight maps. Collated complete. Written by Colonel Noel Andrew Cotton Croft, a member of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War and an Arctic explorer, holding the longest self-supporting dog-sledge journey in the Guinness Book of Records for sixty years. Arctic Solitudes, 1953. First edition, third impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-two plates. Collated complete. Written by Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer. Skyward: Man's Mastery of the Air, 1928. First edition, fourth impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-eight plates. Collated complete. Written by Richard Evelyn Byrd, an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Those Greenland Days, 1932. First edition. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated complete. Written by Martin Lindsay, a British Army officer, polar explorer, politician and author. Northwest of the World: Forty Years' Trading and Hunting in Northern Siberia, 1951. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. Written by Olaf Swenson, a Seattle-based fur trader and adventurer active in Siberia and Alaska in the first third of the twentieth century. The Desolate Antarctic, 1950. First edition, second impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-two plates, and mapped endpapers. Collated complete. Written by Admiral Lord Mountevans. The Great North, 1957. First edition. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. Written by Felice Bellotti, an Italian explorer and author. Translated by James Cadell, a British translator and interpreter. The Great White South or With Scott in the Antarctic, 1928. First edition, eighth impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous images. Written by Herbert George Ponting, an English professional photographer best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition. Fifty Years Below Zero: A Lifetime of Adventure in the Far North, 1950. The Travel Book Club edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates. Collated complete. Written by Charles D. Brower, an American whaler, trader, and postmaster of Barrow, Alaska, dubbed the "King of the Arctic". Ordeal by Ice, 1961. First edition. Illustrated with four maps or plans. Selected and edited by Farley Mowat, a Canadian writer and environmentalist. Captain Scott, 1929. First edition. The Golden Mind Series. Illustrated with a frontispiece, six plates, and two folding plates. Collated complete. Written by Stephen Gwynn, an Irish journalist, biographer, author, poet and Protestant Nationalist politician.