Polar books - a mix of new and old
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Available from The Book Cellar (home of Just Tassie Books), 132 High St, Campbell Town,
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| Antarctica & Arctic books (new & used) - Title |
Author |
Pub. |
Format |
The
Book Cellar price AU$ |
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| 1910-1916 Antarctic
Photographs - Scott, Mawson and Shackleton Expeditions |
Ponting, Herbert / Hurley, Frank |
1979 |
hb |
$36.00 |
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| 1912 The Year
the World Discovered Antarctica |
Turney, Chris |
2012 |
hb |
$15.00 |
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| 537 Days of Winter -
Lessons in resilience and leadership from being stranded at an Antarctic
station during the pandemic |
Knoff, David |
2022 |
sc |
$32.99 |
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| A Gun for a
Fountain Pen - Antarctic Journal November 1910 - January 1912 George Murray
Levick |
Levick, George Murray |
2012 |
hb |
$45.00 |
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| A Hostile
Beauty - Life on Macquarie Island, used |
Dermer, Alistair / Wood,
Danielle |
2011 |
hb |
$36-$69.99 |
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| A Tale of
Ambition and Unrealised Hope - John Montagu & Sir John Franklin |
Joel, Craig R. |
2011 |
sc |
$28-$44 |
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| Abandoned at
Fossil Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula |
Bowden, Tim / Ledingham, Rod
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2022 |
sc |
$29.95 |
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| An Antarctic Affair - a
story of love and survival by the great-granddaughter of Douglas and Paquita
Mawson |
McEwin, Emma |
2008 |
sc |
$18.50 |
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| ANARE - Australia's
Antarctic Outposts, ex-library |
Law, Phillip / Bechervaise, John |
1957 |
hb |
$20.00 |
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| ANARE First Aid Manual -
pocket sized |
ANARE |
1984-87 |
sc |
$5.50 |
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| ANARE Handbook - Antarctic
Division, Station and Field Operations Section |
ANARE |
1992 |
sc |
$5.50 |
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| Antarctic
Destinies - Scott, Shackleton & the changing face of heroism |
Barczewski, Stephanie |
2007 |
hb |
$39.95 |
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| Antarctic Eye - The Visual Journey - signed copy available |
Andrews, Lynne |
2007 |
hb |
$24-$39.95 |
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| Antarctic Odyssey - setting
up of the Mawson Station - signed |
Law, Phillip |
1983 |
hb |
$14.50 |
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| Antarctic
Wildlife |
Hosking, Eric |
1982 |
hb |
$18.00 |
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| Antarctica -
Authentic Accounts of Life and Exploration in the world's highest, driest,
windiest, coldest and most remote continent |
Neider, Charles (ed) |
1973 |
hb |
$19.00 |
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| Antarctica - The Heroic Age
1900 - 1914 |
Finkel, George |
1976 |
hb |
$9.50-$22.50 |
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| Antarctica - World Law and
the last wilderness |
Suter, Dr K D / Friends of the Earth
Sydney |
1980s |
sc |
$9.50 |
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| Antarctica An
Absent Presence - contains 2 CD |
Samartzis, Philip |
2016 |
hb |
$60.00 |
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| Antarctica
and Back in Sixty Days |
Bowden, Tim |
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sc |
$15.00 |
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| Antarctica Cruising Guide |
Carey, Peter / Franklin,
Craig |
2022 |
sc |
$44.99 |
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| Antarctica on
a Plate - she came, she saw, she burnt the toast |
Thomson, Alexa |
2003 |
sc |
$8.50 |
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| Antarctica or Two Years
Amongst the Ice of the South Pole |
Nordenskjold, Otto |
1977 |
hb |
$55.00 |
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| Antarctica
The Last Horizon |
Bechervaise, John |
1979 |
hb |
$15.00 |
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| Arctic &
Antarctica - Explore Earth's Polar Regions - wallchart |
Taylor, Barbara (DK
Eyewitness) |
2012 |
sc |
$16.95 |
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| Aurora
Australis 1908-09 from Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 -
a book about the first book to be wholly published within the Antarctic
region |
Shackleton, E.H. |
1988 |
hb |
$24-$45 |
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| Australian
Antarctica - Celebrating fifty years of Australian National Antarctic
Research Expeditions |
ANARE |
1997 |
hb |
$10.00 |
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| Before the Heroes Came -
Antarctica in the 1890s |
Baughman, T.H. |
1994 |
hb |
$14.50 |
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| Birdie'
Bowers of the Antarctic |
Seaver, George |
1947 |
hb |
$25.00 |
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| Captain Scott |
Fiennes, Ranulph |
2003 |
sc |
$12.50 |
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| Captain Scott the full
story |
Ludlam, Harry |
1965 |
hb |
$10.00 |
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| Discovery -
the Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition |
Byrd, Richard Evelyn |
1935 |
hb |
$45.00 |
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| Edward Wilson
of the Antarctic - Naturalist and Friend |
Seaver, George |
1950 |
hb |
$5.50 |
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| End of the Earth - Voyages
to Antarctica |
Matthiessen, Peter |
2003 |
sc |
$12.50 |
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| Endurance - a
novel of Ice, War and Adventure |
Griffiths, Tim |
2015 |
sc |
$22.50 |
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| Endurance -
An epic of polar adventure |
Worsley, F.A. / O'Brian,
Patrick (preface) |
1999 |
hb |
$15.00 |
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| Erebus - The
Story of a Ship |
Palin, Michael |
2018 |
sc |
$14.50 |
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| Escape to the
Pole - Two Kiwi guys dodge crevasses, starvation & marriage |
Biggar, Kevin |
2010 |
sc |
$9.50 |
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| Face to Face
Polar Portraits |
Lewis-Jones, Huw |
2008 |
hb |
$75.00 |
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| Fatal North - adventure and
survival aboard USS Polaris, the first US expedition to the North Pole |
Henderson, Bruce |
2001 |
hb |
$12.50 |
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| Feral Dilemma - the life of a ranger on sub-Antarctic
Macquarie Island |
Anderson, Michael |
2014 |
sc |
$16.50-$19.99 |
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| Flaws in the
Ice - in search of Douglas Mawson |
Day, David |
2013 |
sc |
$24-$32.95 |
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| Fridtjof
Nansen's "Farthest North" being the record of a voayge of
exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey
by Dr Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appenxid by Otto Sverdrup, Captain
of the Fram - Volume II only |
Macmillan's Colonial Library edition
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nd |
sc |
$10.00 |
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| From Edinburgh to the
Antarctic - an artist's notes and sketches during the Dundee Antarctic
expedition of 1892-93 |
Burn Murdoch, W.G. |
2012 |
sc |
$16.50 |
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| From
Snowdrift to Shellfire - Capt James Francis (Frank) Hurley 1885-1962 |
Millar, David P. |
1984 |
hb |
$30.00 |
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| Griffith Review 77 - Real
Cool World |
Griffith Review |
2022 |
sc |
$27.99 |
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| Grue of Ice,
novel set between Cape Town & Antarctica, searching for Thompson Island |
Jenkins, Geoffrey |
1962 |
hb |
$8.50 |
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| Have Sleeping
Bag will Travel - the life of an adventurer - signed |
Foote, Brian / Marr, Joan |
2006 |
sc |
$25.00 |
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| Huskies in Harness - A love
story in Antarctica |
Robinson, Shelagh (ed) |
1995 |
sc |
$18.50 |
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| Huskies Polar Sledge Dogs |
Chester, Jonathan |
1994 |
hb |
$8.50 |
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| Ice Bird |
Lewis, David |
1977 |
sc |
$6.50 |
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| Ice Floes and Flaming Water
- a true adventure in Melville Bay |
Freuchen, Peter |
nd |
hb |
$8.50 |
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| Ice in the Rigging - Ships of the Antarctic 1699 - 1937 |
Mitchener, E. A. (Ted) |
2015 |
hb |
$45.00 |
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| Icy Graves -
Exploration and death in the Antarctic |
Haddesley, Stephen |
2018 |
sc |
$34.99 |
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| Igloo Ripples - the story of a unique fibreglass cabin made
for Antarctica and used all over the world |
Wallhead, Anthea |
2022 |
sc |
$34.95 |
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In
Shackleton's Footsteps
A return to the heart of the Antarctic |
Worsley, Henry |
2011 |
hb |
$24.00 |
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| Journey to
the Polar Sea |
Franklin, John |
2002 |
hb |
$18.50 |
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| Key
Environments - Antarctica |
Bonner, WN / Walton, DWH
(eds) |
1985 |
hb |
$30.00 |
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| Life on the
Ice - No One Goes to Antarctica Alone |
Smith, Roff |
2005 |
sc |
$19.95 |
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| Macquarie Island - story of
the ships that visited |
Cumpston, J. S. |
1968 |
hb |
$95.00 |
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| Macquarie
Island Nature Reserve - Visitor's Handbook |
National Parks &
Wildlife Service, Tasmania |
1987 |
sc |
$10.00 |
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| Madigan's
Account - the Mawson Expedition, the Antarctic Diaries of C.T. Madigan
1911-1914 |
Madigan, J.W.
(transcribed) |
2012 |
hb |
$75.00 |
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| Mawson - a
life |
Ayres, Philip |
2003 |
sc |
$9.50 |
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| Mawson - a
life |
Ayres, Philip |
1999 |
hb |
$22.50-$28.00 |
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| Mawson and
the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen |
Fitzsimons, Peter |
2012 |
sc |
$24.00 |
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| Mawson and
the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen - signed copy
available |
Fitzsimons, Peter |
2011 |
hb |
$24-$28 |
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| Mawson in Antarctica |
Grochowicz, Joanna |
2024 |
sc |
$19.99 |
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| Mawson's
Antarctic Diaries |
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1988 |
hb |
$45.00 |
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| Mawson's
Forgotten Men - the 1911-1913 Antarctic Diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson |
Rossiter, Heather (ed) |
2011 |
sc |
$36.00 |
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| Mawson's Huts
- an Antarctic Expedition Journal |
McGregor, Alasdair |
1998 |
sc |
$29.95 |
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| Mawson's Huts
- the Birthplace of Australia's Antarctic Heritage |
Mawson's Huts Foundation
/ Jensen, David |
2014 |
sc |
$39.99 |
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| Mawson's Remarkable Men - personal stories of the epic
1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition |
Jensen, David |
2015 |
sc |
$35.00 |
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| Narrative of
a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819-220-21-22
(Everyman's Library edition) |
Franklin, John |
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hb |
$8.50 |
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| New Zealand
and the Antarctic |
Quartermain, L.B. |
1971 |
hb |
$15.00 |
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| Nimrod - Ernest Shackleton
and the extraordinary story of the 1907-09 British Antarctic expedition |
Riffenburgh, Beau |
2004 |
sc |
$16.50 |
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| Nimrod - Ernest Shackleton
and the extraordinary story of the 1907-09 British Antarctic expedition |
Riffenburgh, Beau |
2004 |
hb |
$24.00 |
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| Ocean Enough
and Time - Discovering the waters around Antarctica |
Gorman, James |
1995 |
hb |
$14.50 |
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| Of Ice and
Men |
Fuchs, Sir Vivian |
1982 |
hb |
$10.00 |
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| Of Whales and
Men - Antarctic whaling expedition |
Robertson, R.B. |
1954 |
hb |
$14.50 |
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| Pilgrims on the Ice -
Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic expedition |
Baughman, T.H. |
1999 |
hb |
$22.50 |
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| Pink Ice - Britain and the
South Atlantic Empire |
Dodds, Klaus |
2002 |
sc |
$8.50 |
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| Pinto and the
Nella Dan - signed copy available |
McLennan, Wendy /
Maclaine, Catriona |
2013 |
sc |
$14.50-$29.95 |
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| Polar Castaways - Ross Sea
Party (1914 - 17) of Sir Ernest Shackleton |
McElrea, Richard /
Harrowfield, David |
2004 |
hb |
$35.00 |
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| Poles Apart - Fascination, Fame and Folly |
Hansen, Anita & Brita
(eds) |
2018 |
hb |
$55-$75 |
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| Poles Apart, Fascination, Fame and Folly |
Hansen, Anita & Brita (eds)
|
2018 |
sc |
$50.00 |
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| Race for the
South Pole - the expedition diaries of Scott and Amundsen |
Hunford, Roland |
2010 |
sc |
$12.50 |
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| Racing with
Death - Douglas Mawson Antarctic Explorer |
Riffenburgh, Beau |
2008 |
hb |
$15.00 |
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| Racing with
Death - Douglas Mawson Antarctic Explorer |
Riffenburgh, Beau |
2008 |
sc |
$10.00 |
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| Scott of the
Antarctic |
Pound, Reginald |
1966 |
hb |
$10.00 |
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| Scott of the
Antarctic - a life of courage and tragedy in the extreme south |
Crane, David |
2005 |
sc |
$10.00 |
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| Scott of the
Antarctic - A study in character |
Seaver, George |
1948 |
sc |
$5.50 |
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| Scott's Men |
Thomson, David |
1977 |
hb |
$12.50 |
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| Shackleton -
the story of Ernest Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers |
Mortimer, Gavin |
2002 |
sc |
$10.00 |
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| Shackleton's Epic -
Recreating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival - signed |
Jarvis, Tim |
2013 |
hb |
$28.00 |
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| Shackleton's
Forgotten Argonauts |
Bickel, Lennard |
1982 |
hb |
$28.00 |
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| Shiver, a
novel of Antarctica |
Gemmell, Nikki |
2004 |
sc |
$12.50 |
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| Shores of
Macquarie Island |
Bennett, Isobel |
1971 |
hb |
$24.00 |
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| Snow Petrel -
a father / son voyage to Antarctica - signed |
Tucker, Jon |
2011 |
hb |
$28.00 |
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| South - the
Endurance expedition to Antarctica |
Shackleton, Ernest |
1999 |
sc |
$10.00 |
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| South
Latitude |
Ommaney, F.D. |
1947 |
hb |
$16.50 |
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| South with
Mawson |
Laseron, Charles F |
1957 |
hb |
$22.50 |
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| South with
Scott |
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1958 |
sc |
$7.50 |
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| South with
Scott |
Mountevans, Admiral Lord
/ Ponting, Herbert |
1961 |
hb |
$22.50 |
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| South with
Scott |
Mountevans, Admiral Lord
/ Ponting, Herbert |
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hb |
$10-$15 |
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| South! The
story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 |
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2011 |
sc |
$18.50 |
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| Southern
Light - Images from Antarctica |
Neilson, David |
2012 |
hb |
$35.00 |
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| Southern Quest - a journey
of discovery for Australian Antarctic Science |
Antarctic CRC |
2003 |
sc |
$10.00 |
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| Sub Antarctic Wilderness
Macquarie Island |
Terauds, Aleks / Stewart, Fiona |
2008 |
hb |
$35.00 |
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| Terra Incognita - travels
in Antarctica |
Wheeler, Sara |
1996 |
sc |
$8.50 |
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| The Amundsen
Photographs |
Huntford, Roland (editor)
|
1987 |
hb |
$18.50 |
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| The Crossing
of Antarctica - the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58 |
Fuchs, Sir Vivian / Hillary, Sir Edmund
|
1958 |
hb |
$18.50 |
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| The Dawning of Antarctica - through exploration to occupation |
Quilty, Patrick G. |
2021 |
hb |
$74.95 |
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| The Far South |
Bechervaise, John |
1961 |
hb |
$12.50 |
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| The Great
White South |
Ponting, Herbert G. |
1924 |
hb |
$10.00 |
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| The Great
White South - travelling with Robert F Scott's doomed South Pole expedition |
Ponting, Herbert G. |
2001 |
hb |
$14.95 |
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| The Heart of
the Antarctic / South - The Endurance Expedition - two classic tales in one
volume |
Shackleton, Sir Ernest /
Hurley, Frank |
2002 |
sc |
$15.00 |
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| The Home of the Blizzard -
The story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 - 1914 |
Mawson, Sir Douglas |
var |
sc |
$8.50 |
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| The Ice |
Pyne, Stephen J |
2004 |
sc |
$9.50 |
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| The Ice Beneath My Feet -
My year in Antarctica |
Patterson, Diana |
2010 |
sc |
$9.50 |
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| The Ice Master - the doomed
1913 voyage of the Karluk |
Niven, Jennifer |
2001 |
sc |
$8.50 |
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| The Ice Master - the doomed
1913 voyage of the Karluk |
Niven, Jennifer |
2000 |
hb |
$15.00 |
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| The
incredible life of Hubert Wilkins - Australia's Greatest Explorer |
Fitzsimons, Peter |
2021 |
hb |
$49.99 |
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| The Indestructible Tom Crean |
Thermes, Jennifer |
2023 |
sc |
$14.99 |
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| The
Invertebrates of Macquarie Island |
Greenslade, Penelope |
2006 |
sc |
$65.00 |
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| The Last Great Quest -
Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice |
Jones, Max |
2003 |
sc |
$8.50 |
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| The Last
Viking -The Life of Roald Amundsen |
Bown, Stephen R |
2012 |
hb |
$14.50 |
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| The Lichens and Mosses of
Mac.Robertson Land |
Filson, Rex B / Antarctic Division |
1966 |
hb |
$28.00 |
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| The Loneliest
Continent - The story of Antarctic Discovery |
Chapman, Walker |
1964 |
hb |
$18.50 |
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| The Loneliest
Mountain - the dramatic story of the first expedition to climb Mt Minto,
Antarctica - signed copy available |
Hall, Lincoln |
1989 |
hb |
$28-$35 |
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| The Lost Photographs of
Captain Scott |
Wilson, David M. |
2011 |
hb |
$42.00 |
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| The Many Lives of Douglas
Mawson |
McEwin, Emma |
2018 |
sc |
$39.95 |
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| The Oceanites
Site Guide to the Antarctic Peninsula |
Naveen, Ron |
2005 |
sc |
auction |
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| The Rescue of Captain Scott |
Aldridge, Don |
1999 |
hb |
$14.50 |
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| The Search for the North
West Passage - signed, with notes |
Savours, Ann |
1999 |
hb |
$45.00 |
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| The Silence
Calling - Australians in Antarctica 1947-97, the ANARE Jubilee history |
Bowden, Tim |
1997 |
hb |
$45.00 |
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The South
Pole
An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram 1910 - 1912,
English translation |
Amundsen, Roald |
2001 |
sc |
$28.00 |
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| The South
Pole - a historical reader |
Brandt, Anthony (ed) |
2004 |
sc |
$16.50 |
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| The
Sub-Antarctic - Proceedings of a forum July 2006 |
Royal Society of Tasmania
|
2007 |
sc |
$30.00 |
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| The Voyage of
the 'Discovery' - Popular Edition |
Scott, Captain R.F. |
1929 |
hb |
$15.00 |
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| The White
Desert |
Barber, Noel |
1958 |
hb |
$10.00 |
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| This Accursed
Land |
Bickel, Lennard |
1977 |
hb |
$12.50 |
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| This
Everlasting Silence - the love letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson
1911-1914 |
Robinson Flannery, Nancy
(ed) |
2005 |
sc |
$35.00 |
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| Through the Frozen Frontier
- the exploration of Antarctica |
Dufek, George J |
1959 |
hb |
$8.50 |
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| To the Poles without a
Beard - the polar adventures of a world-record breaking woman |
Harley, Catharine |
2003 |
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$12.50 |
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| Two Below
Zero - A Year Alone in Antarctica - Don and Margie McIntyre - signed copy
available |
McIntyre, Don / Meredith,
Peter |
1996 |
hb |
$24-$65 |
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| Under
Antarctic Ice - the photographs of Norbert Wu |
Wu, Nobert |
2004 |
hb |
$22.50 |
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| Unique &
Unspoilt - A year among the natural wonders of Heard Island, the 1953
journals of John Bechervaise |
Hince, Bernadette (ed) |
2011 |
sc |
$32.00 |
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| Voyages of
Delusion - the search of the northwest Passage in the Age of Reason |
Williams, Glyn |
2002 |
sc |
$15.00 |
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| Waiting to Fly - My
escapades with the penguins in Antarctica |
Naveen, Ron |
2000 |
sc |
$10.00 |
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| Willy the Wily Weka -
Children of the Midnight Sun Antarctic wildlife stories series |
Hawthorn, Ivan G |
1996 |
sc |
$9.95 |
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| Wings of Ice - the Mystery
of the Polar Air Race |
Maynard, Jeff |
2010 |
sc |
$9.50 |
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| With Scott to
the Pole, retold by Howard Marshall |
Country
Life |
1947 |
hb |
$10.00 |
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| You Have to
Be Lucky - Antarctic and other adventures - signed copy available |
Law, Phillip |
1995 |
sc |
$22.50 |
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