This United States expedition during the First International Polar Year, based at Fort Conger, Lady Franklin Bay, explored the north coast of Gree...

One of the most valuable sources for the history of exploration in northern Canada.The Nares expedition, so called after its commander George Nare...

Limited edition - signed by the authors. A remarkable work, not only for its size and weight (8.7 kg plus a box of 3.8 kg), but also for its magnif...

An officer's account - a legendary Cook rarity. The rarest of all the surreptitious accounts of Cook's voyages, issued with a title phrased to misl...

A superb large copy in contemporary green morocco of the preferred enlarged second edition. Ferrer Maldonado's account of a spurious 1588 voyage t...

Sparrman's work includes accounts of his travels inland from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and as assistant naturalist to Johann Forster...

Scarce. The French edition of Marras' Journal, possibly translated by Anne Francois Joachim de Fréville. Published anonymously and surreptitiously...

With the rare supplement. The rarely found supplement makes good the omissions from Journal.First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 310,...

The printed record of a weekly newspaper devised by Sabine to uphold morale amongst the crew of Parry's first voyage whilst frozen-in during the A...

Lyon's official account of a search for a Northwest Passage by Hudson Bay. The narrative of the voyage as far as Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay also ...

Journal by an officer on the first expedition commanded by William Parry. Fisher gives especially useful remarks on natural history and ice condit...

The first traversal of the North-west Passage. Even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin survivors, and (by explicit orders) ...

'Kane, on board the Advance, was commander of this expedition, which was financed by Grinnell. Franklin was not found; however, much data concerni...

De Veer (1570-1598), was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast Pa...

Parker Snow (1817-1895), an eccentric English explorer, was working as a writer in New York when he claimed to have had a paranormal vision of the...

'Nunn had joined the crew of the Royal Sovereign on a sealing voyage, which after being chased by pirates down the West African coast arrived at K...

In 1873 the Admiralty began planning an expedition to find a route to the North Pole through Smith Sound, the passage between Greenland and Canada...

Scarce. 'In his voyage to the Bering Sea, Niedeck split his time between Kamchatka and Alaska. Landing at Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatkan coast, h...