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Polar books - a
mix of new and old books currently for sale
Available from The Book Cellar (home of Just Tassie Books), 132 High
St, Campbell Town, Tasmania 7210 Australia
tel: 03 6381 1545
mob: 0414 369 837 email: info@bookcellar.com.au
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Contact
us by phone or email to purchase books and arrange delivery.
Special Offer: Maximum $10.00 postage for any
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Updated 28 Dec 2021
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Antarctica
& Arctic books (new & used) - Title
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Author
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Pub.
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Dustjacket?
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Format
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The Book Cellar price AU$
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ISBN/ISSN
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A First Rate Tragedy - Robert Falcon Scott and the race to the
South Pole
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Preston, Diana
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1999
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sc
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$8.50
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618002014
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A Gun for a Fountain Pen - Antarctic Journal November 1910 -
January 1912 George Murray Levick
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Levick, George Murray
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2012
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hb
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$45.00
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978098730601
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A History of Antarctica
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Martin, Stephen
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2013
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D/Ja
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hb
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$25-$45
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9781921719578
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A Hostile Beauty - Life on Macquarie Island,
used
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Dermer, Alistair / Wood, Danielle
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2011
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D/Ja
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hb
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$36-$69.99
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9780522855043
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A Man for Antarctica - the
Early Life of Phillip Law - signed
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Ralston, Kathleen
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1993
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D/Ja
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hb
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$35.00
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1875657134
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A Tale of Ambition and Unrealised Hope - John Montagu &
Sir John Franklin
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Joel, Craig R.
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2011
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sc
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$28-$44
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9781921509827
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An Empire of Ice - Scott, Shackleton, and the heroic age of
Antarctic science
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Larson, Edward, J
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2011
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D/Ja
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hb
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$15.00
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9780300154085
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ANARE - Australia's
Antarctic Outposts, ex-library
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Law, Phillip / Bechervaise, John
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1957
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D/Ja
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hb
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$20.00
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nil
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Antarctic Days with Mawson - a personal account of the British,
Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition of 1929-31
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Fletcher, Harold
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1984
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D/Ja
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hb
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$10.00
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207148899
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Antarctic Destinies - Scott,
Shackleton & the changing face of heroism
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Barczewski, Stephanie
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2007
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D/Ja
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hb
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$39.95
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9781847251923
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Antarctic Eye - The Visual Journey - signed copy available
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Andrews, Lynne
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2007
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D/Ja
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hb
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$24-$29.95
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9780646478395
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Antarctic Odyssey - setting up of the Mawson Station - signed
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Law, Phillip
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1983
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D/Ja
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hb
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$14.50
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858593203
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Antarctic Pioneers - the voyage of the
Belgica 1897-99
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Fram Museum Exhibition
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2010
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sc
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$15.00
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9788282350075
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Antarctic Wildlife
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Hosking, Eric
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1982
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D/Ja
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hb
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$18.00
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709912153
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Antarctica - Authentic Accounts
of Life and Exploration in the world's highest, driest, windiest, coldest and
most remote continent
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Neider, Charles (ed)
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1973
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D/Ja
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hb
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$19.00
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49100521
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Antarctica - The Heroic Age 1900 - 1914
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Finkel, George
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1976
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D/Ja
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hb
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$9.50
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1950266
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Antarctica a biography
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Day, David
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2012
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D/Ja
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hb
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$45.00
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9781741669084
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Antarctica An Absent Presence -
contains 2 CD
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Samartzis, Philip
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2016
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hb
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$60.00
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9780500500668
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Antarctica and Back in Sixty Days
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Bowden, Tim
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1991, 1992
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sc
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$15.00
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1865080993
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Antarctica on a Plate - she
came, she saw, she burnt the toast
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Thomson, Alexa
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2003
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sc
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$8.50
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1840244712
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Antarctica The Last Horizon
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Bechervaise, John
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1979
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D/Ja
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hb
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$15.00
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726904740
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Antarctica, that sweep of savage
splendour, collected writings
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McGregor, Alasdair (ed)
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2011
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D/Ja
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hb
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$16.50
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9780670074426
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Arctic & Antarctica - Explore Earth's Polar
Regions - wallchart
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Taylor, Barbara (DK Eyewitness)
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2012
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sc
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$16.95
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nk
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Aurora Australis
1908-09 from Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-09
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Shackleton, E.H.
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1988
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D/Ja
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hb
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$24.00
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Australian Antarctic Science - the
first 50 years of ANARE
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Marchant, Harvey J / Lugg,
Desmond J / Quilty, Patrick G (eds)
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2002
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hb
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$165.00
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1876934050
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Before the Heroes Came - Antarctica
in the 1890s
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Baughman, T.H.
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1994
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D/Ja
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hb
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$14.50
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803212283
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Birdie' Bowers of the Antarctic
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Seaver, George
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1947
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D/Ja
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hb
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$25.00
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nil
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Body at the Melbourne Club - Bertram Armytage,
Antarctica's Forgotten man
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Burke, David
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2009
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sc
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$12.50
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9781862548336
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Born Adventurer - the life of Frank Bickerton
Antarctic Pioneer
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Haddelsey, Stephen
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2005
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D/Ja
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hb
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$22.50
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750940123
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Captain Scott
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Fiennes, Ranulph
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2003
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sc
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$12.50
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340826983
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Captain Scott the full story
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Ludlam, Harry
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1965
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D/Ja
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hb
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$10.00
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nil
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Deadly Winter - the life of Sir John Franklin
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Beardsley, Martyn
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2002
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D/Ja
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hb
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$29.95
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1861761872
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Death on the Ice - Scott, Antarctica
1912
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Ryan, Robert
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2009
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sc
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$14.50
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9780755347216
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Discovery - the Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn
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1935
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hb
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$45.00
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Douglas Mawson's Antarctic Bases - Cape
Denison, Macquarie Island
and the Shackelton Iceshelf
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Jensen, David
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2010
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sc
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$24.00
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9780957937413
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Emperor Penguins - English translation from the French
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Rivolier, Jean
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1956
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D/Ja
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hb
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$19.00
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nil
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End of the Earth - Voyages to Antarctica
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Matthiessen, Peter
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2003
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sc
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$12.50
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792268369
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Endurance - a novel of Ice, War and Adventure
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Griffiths, Tim
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2015
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sc
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$22.50
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9781760111540
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Endurance - An epic of polar adventure
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Worsley, F.A. / O'Brian, Patrick (preface)
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1999
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D/Ja
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hb
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$15.00
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393046842
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Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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Lansing, Alfred
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2006
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sc
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$7.50
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078670621x
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Ernest Shackleton - Biography
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Plimpton, George
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2003
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D/Ja
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hb
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$20.00
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789493152
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Escape to the Pole - Two Kiwi guys
dodge crevasses, starvation & marriage
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Biggar, Kevin
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2010
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sc
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$9.50
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9781869793999
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Extreme South - in the footsteps of
Scott and Amundsen, two Aussies, Cas and Jonesy, set out to
conquer the last great wilderness on earth
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Castrission, James
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2012
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sc
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$7.50
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Face to Face Polar Portraits
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Lewis-Jones, Huw
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2008
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D/Ja
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hb
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$75.00
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9780901021083
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Fatal North - adventure and survival aboard USS Polaris, the
first US
expedition to the North Pole
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Henderson, Bruce
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2001
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D/Ja
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hb
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$12.50
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451409353
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Feral Dilemma - the life of a ranger on sub-Antarctic
Macquarie Island
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Anderson, Michael
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2014
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sc
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$16.50-$19.95
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9780992551308
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Flaws in the Ice - in search of
Douglas Mawson
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Day, David
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2013
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sc
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$24-$32.95
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9781922070746
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From Edinburgh
to the Antarctic - an artist's notes and sketches during the Dundee Antarctic
expedition of 1892-93
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Burn Murdoch, W.G.
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2012
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sc
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$16.50
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9781108048248
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From Snowdrift to Shellfire - Capt James Francis (Frank) Hurley
1885-1962
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Millar, David P.
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1984
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D/Ja
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hb
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$30.00
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908197594
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Grue of Ice, novel
set between Cape Town & Antarctica, searching for Thompson Island
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Jenkins, Geoffrey
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1962
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D/Ja
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hb
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$8.50
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708903320
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Have Sleeping Bag will Travel - the life of an adventurer -
signed
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Foote, Brian / Marr, Joan
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2006
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sc
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$25.00
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975173618
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Huskies in Harness - A love story in
Antarctica
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Robinson, Shelagh (ed)
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1995
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sc
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$18.50
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864177267
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Huskies Polar Sledge Dogs
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Chester, Jonathan
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1994
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hb
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$8.50
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947241639
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Ice Bird
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Lewis, David
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1977
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sc
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$6.50
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6346693
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Ice Floes and Flaming Water - a true
adventure in Melville Bay
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Freuchen, Peter
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nd
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hb
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$8.50
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nil
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Ice, Wind, Rock - Douglas Mawson in
the Antarctic
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Gouldthorpe, Peter
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2013
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hb
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$16.95
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9780734411556
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In Search of the South Pole
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Herbert, Kari /Lewis-Jones, Huw
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2011
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hb
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$39.99
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9781844861378
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In Shackleton's Footsteps
A return to the heart of the Antarctic
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Worsley, Henry
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2011
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D/Ja
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hb
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$24.00
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9781905264933
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Journey to the Polar Sea
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Franklin, John
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2002
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D/Ja
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hb
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$18.50
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851777899
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Key Environments - Antarctica
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Bonner, WN / Walton, DWH (eds)
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1985
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D/Ja
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hb
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$30.00
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80288812
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Life on the Ice - No One Goes to Antarctica
Alone
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Smith, Roff
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2005
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sc
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$19.95
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nk
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Macquarie Island Nature Reserve -
Visitor's Handbook
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National Parks & Wildlife Service, Tasmania
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1987
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sc
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$10.00
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724620176
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Madigan's Account - the Mawson Expedition, the Antarctic Diaries
of C.T. Madigan 1911-1914
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Madigan, J.W. (transcribed)
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2012
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hb
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$75.00
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9781921767098
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Mawson - a life
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Ayres, Philip
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1999
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D/Ja
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hb
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$22.50
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522848117
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Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen
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Fitzsimons, Peter
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2011
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D/Ja
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hb
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$22.50
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9781741666601
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Mawson's Forgotten Men - the 1911-1913 Antarctic Diary of
Charles Turnbull Harrisson
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Rossiter, Heather (ed)
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2011
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sc
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$36.00
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9781742661506
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Mawson's Huts - an Antarctic Expedition Journal
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McGregor, Alasdair
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1998
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sc
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$29.95
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868066532
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Mawson's Huts - the Birthplace of
Australia's Antarctic Heritage
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Mawson's Huts Foundation / Jensen, David
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2014
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sc
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$39.99
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9781760112660
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Mawson's Remarkable Men - personal stories of the epic
1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition
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Jensen, David
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2015
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sc
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$35.00
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9781760113339
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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)
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Franklin, John
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hb
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$8.50
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nil
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New Explorers - Women in Antarctica
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Land, Barbara
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1981
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D/Ja
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hb
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$16.50
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396079245
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New Zealand and the Antarctic
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Quartermain, L.B.
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1971
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D/Ja
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hb
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$15.00
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Nimrod - Ernest Shackleton and the extraordinary story of the
1907-09 British Antarctic expedition
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Riffenburgh, Beau
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2004
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sc
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$16.50
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747574448
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Ocean Enough and Time - Discovering
the waters around Antarctica
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Gorman, James
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1995
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D/Ja
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hb
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$14.50
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60166207
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Of Whales and Men - Antarctic whaling
expedition
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Robertson, R.B.
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1954
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D/Ja
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hb
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$14.50
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nil
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One Small Island - story of Macquarie Island
(children's)
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Lester, Alison / Tulloch, Coral
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2011
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hb
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$29.95
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9780670072361
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Pilgrims on the Ice - Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic
expedition
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Baughman, T.H.
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1999
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D/Ja
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hb
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$22.50
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803212895
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Pink Ice - Britain
and the South Atlantic Empire
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Dodds, Klaus
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2002
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sc
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$8.50
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1860647707
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Pinto and the Nella Dan - signed
copy available
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McLennan, Wendy / Maclaine, Catriona
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2013
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sc
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$14.50-$26
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9780987528100
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Polar Castaways - Ross
Sea Party (1914 - 17)
of Sir Ernest Shackleton
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McElrea, Richard / Harrowfield,
David
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2004
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D/Ja
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hb
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$35.00
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Poles Apart - Fascination, Fame and Folly
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Hansen, Anita & Brita (eds)
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2018
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hb
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$75.00
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9780648141389
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Poles Apart, Fascination, Fame and Folly
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Hansen, Anita & Brita (eds)
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2018
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sc
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$50.00
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9780648141372
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Race for the South Pole - the expedition diaries of Scott and Amundsen
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Hunford, Roland
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2010
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sc
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$12.50
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9781441126672
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Racing with Death - Douglas Mawson Antarctic Explorer
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Riffenburgh, Beau
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2008
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sc
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$10.00
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9780747580935
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Racing with Death - Douglas Mawson Antarctic Explorer
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Riffenburgh, Beau
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2008
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D/Ja
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hb
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$15.00
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9780747580935
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Scott of the Antarctic
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Pound, Reginald
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1966
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D/Ja
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hb
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$10.00
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Scott of the Antarctic
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Crane, David
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2005
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sc
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$15.00
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7219652
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Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts
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Bickel, Lennard
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1982
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D/Ja
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hb
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$28.00
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333338677
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Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition - the voyage of the Nimrod
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Riffenburgh, Beau
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2004
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D/Ja
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hb
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$24.00
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1582344884
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Shiver, a novel of Antarctica
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Gemmell, Nikki
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2004
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sc
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$12.50
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174051324x
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Shores of Macquarie
Island
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Bennett, Isobel
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1971
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D/Ja
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hb
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$24.00
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851792243
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Snow Petrel - a father / son voyage to Antarctica
- signed
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Tucker, Jon
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2011
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hb
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$28.00
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9780980533262
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South with Mawson
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Laseron, Charles F
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1957
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D/Ja
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hb
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$28.00
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South with Scott
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Mountevans, Admiral Lord / Ponting, Herbert
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1961
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D/Ja
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hb
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$22.50
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nil
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South with Scott
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Mountevans, Admiral Lord / Ponting, Herbert
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1957, 1921
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hb
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$15.00
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nil
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Southern Light - Images from Antarctica
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Neilson, David
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2012
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D/Ja
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hb
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$35.00
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9780958575317
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Sub-Antarctic Sanctuary - Summertime on Macquarie Island
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Gillham, Mary
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1967
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D/Ja
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hb
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$16.50
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Terra Incognita - travels in Antarctica
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Wheeler, Sara
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1996
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sc
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$8.50
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224047817
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The Ambitions of Jane Franklin - Victorian Lady Adventurer
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Alexander, Alison
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2013
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sc
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$22.99
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9781760292546
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The Dawning of Antarctica - through exploration to occupation
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Quilty, Patrick G.
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2021
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hb
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$75.00
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9780646842349
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The Great White South - travelling with Robert F Scott's doomed
South Pole expedition
|
Ponting, Herbert G.
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2001
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hb
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$14.95
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815411618
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The Heart of the Antarctic / South - The Endurance Expedition -
two classic tales in one volume
|
Shackleton, Sir Ernest / Hurley, Frank
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2002
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sc
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$15.00
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734305087
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The Home of the Blizzard - The story of the Australian Antarctic
Expedition, 1911 - 1914
|
Mawson, Sir Douglas
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var
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sc
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$8.50-$16.50
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1862543771
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The Ice Beneath My Feet - My year in Antarctica
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Patterson, Diana
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2010
|
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sc
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$9.50
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9780733324239
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The Invertebrates of Macquarie
Island
|
Greenslade, Penelope
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2006
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sc
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$65.00
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9781876934107
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The Last Explorer - Hubert Wilkins, hero of the great age of
polar exploration
|
Nasht, Simon
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2006
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D/Ja
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hb
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$28.00
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9781559708258
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The Last Great Quest - Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice
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Jones, Max
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2003
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sc
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$8.50
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192805703
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The Last Viking -The Life of Roald Amundsen
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Bown, Stephen R
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2012
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sc
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$18.50
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9780306822667
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The Loneliest Continent - The story of Antarctic Discovery
|
Chapman, Walker
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1964
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D/Ja
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hb
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$18.50
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nil
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The Loneliest Mountain - the dramatic story of the first
expedition to climb Mt Minto, Antarctica -
signed copy available
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Hall, Lincoln
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1989
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D/Ja
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hb
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$28-$35
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731800516
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The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott
|
Wilson, David M.
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2011
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D/Ja
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hb
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$42.00
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9781408703007
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The Rescue of Captain Scott
|
Aldridge, Don
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1999
|
D/Ja
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hb
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$14.50
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1862320705
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The Silence Calling - Australians in Antarctica
1947-97, the ANARE Jubilee history - signed copy available
|
Bowden, Tim
|
1997
|
D/Ja
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hb
|
$45-$48
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1864483113
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|
The South Pole
An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram
1910 - 1912, English translation
|
Amundsen, Roald
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2001
|
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sc
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$28.00
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1850654697
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The South Pole - a historical reader
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Brandt, Anthony (ed)
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2004
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sc
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$16.50
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792267974
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The Sub-Antarctic - Proceedings of a forum July 2006
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Royal Society of Tasmania
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2007
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sc
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$30.00
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nil
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The Unforgiving Minute - signed
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Jarvis, Tim
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2004
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sc
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$9.50
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186325434x
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This Everlasting Silence - the love letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas
Mawson 1911-1914
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Robinson Flannery, Nancy (ed)
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2005
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sc
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$35.00
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522851916
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Through Ice and Fire - the adventures, science and people
behind Australia's famous icebreaker Aurora Australis
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Laverick, Sarah
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2019
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sc
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$34.99
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9781760554798
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Through the Frozen Frontier - the exploration of Antarctica
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Dufek, George J
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1959
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D/Ja
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hb
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$8.50
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nil
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Two Below Zero - A Year Alone in Antarctica
- Don and Margie McIntyre
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McIntyre, Don / Meredith, Peter
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1996
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D/Ja
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hb
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$40-$65
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9781862760189
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Under Antarctic Ice - the photographs of Norbert Wu
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Wu, Nobert
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2004
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D/Ja
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hb
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$22.50
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520235045
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Voyages of Delusion - the search of the northwest Passage in the
Age of Reason
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Williams, Glyn
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2002
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sc
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$15.00
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6532136
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Waiting to Fly - My escapades with the penguins in Antarctica
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Naveen, Ron
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2000
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sc
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$10.00
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688175732
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Willy the Wily Weka - Children of the Midnight Sun Antarctic
wildlife stories series
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Hawthorn, Ivan G
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1996
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sc
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$9.95
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958696748
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Wings of Ice - the Mystery of the Polar Air Race
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Maynard, Jeff
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2010
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sc
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$9.50
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9781741669343
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You Have to Be Lucky - Antarctic and other adventures - signed
copy available
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Law, Phillip
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1995
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sc
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$22.50
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864177437
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