Arctic Explorers - A Bulletin for Schools by J M Thomson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Education | Reading Level: very good
Trapped in Ice! - An Amazing True Whaling Adventure by Martin W. Sandler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this true story that reads as action-adventure, learn how 1,219 members of the world's largest whaling expedition managed to survive after becoming entrapped within an Arctic ice shelf. In the late summer of 1871, thirty-nine whaling ships traveled to the frigid Arctic waters in search of the prized ...Show more
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578 by James McDermott (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 6 | Reading Level: very good
Martin Frobisher's third (1578) voyage to Baffin island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism on the part of the adventurers of the ephemeral 'Company of Cathay'. Their original intention - to find a north-western route to the Far East - had been largely forgotten following the imag ...Show more
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger Volume I - The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813 by William Scoresby; C. Ian Jackson (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No12 | Reading Level: very good
William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ...Show more
Searching for Franklin - The Land Arctic Searching Expedition 1855 - James Anderson's and James Stewart's Expedition via the Black River by William Barr (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No1 | Reading Level: very good
In the Autumn of 1854 Dr John Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company astonished the world with the first news of the fate of the Franklin expedition, missing in the Arctic since 1845, on the basis of stories, rather vague as to time and place, which he had heard from Inuit in the vicinity of Pelly Bay. The res ...Show more
Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747 - Volume I - The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742 by William Barr (ed.); Glyndwr Williams (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 177 | Reading Level: very good
The 18th century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of a navigable passage to the Pacific. ...Show more
Arctic Explorations - The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search f John Franklin 1853, 54,55 by Elisha Kent Kane; Chauncey Loomis (ed.); Contance Martin (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #94 | Reading Level: near fine
The Future History Of The Arctic by Charles Emmerson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Arctic | Reading Level: very good
Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain s ...Show more
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