Vilhjalmur stefansson editor (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. "NEW EDITION 1952 (original was 1947)." Red boards lightly bumped. Spine faded. Clean unmarked pages. VERY GOOD+. Richard Edes Harrison - maps (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

hardcover. Condizione: Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. New, unused. Free of any markings and no writings inside.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 351 pages. Grey cloth boards with white titles to black cloth spine. 15 pages of full page, full color illustrations & additional photos in black & white throughout. Bright dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 750919. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. p. 1- 176. Some articles: Long Beach earthquake; A recent survey in Little Tibet (40 pages, several b/w illustrations and a large coloured map of the Eastern Karakoram); white settlement in Saba Island, Dutch West Indies; the population of the Malay Peninsula; Murray River basin; An Eskimo discovery of an island North of Alaska; Discovery of a new sketch of Cape Hudson in the Antarctic; Altitude and location of Minya Konka; and other articles.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xii, 788 pages. Name and date in ink inside front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Slightly shaken. Some edge soiling. Illustrated endpapers. Includes Note on the Maps, Concerning the Use of Symbols in this Book. Maps. Introduction, Acknowledgments, and Index, as well as 18 chapters. Also includes 18 black and white illustrations, as well as a map of The Mediterranean Discovers the Arctic. The maps illustrating this book were designed primarily to place the various explorations in their proper world perspective. This was deemed more important to the reader than complete detail, some of which is necessarily sacrificed in the larger view. Accordingly, most of the maps are on the orthographic projection. This shows exactly a hemisphere, and proves a good visual impression of the globe. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (November 3, 1879 - August 26, 1962) was an Icelandic American Arctic explorer and ethnologist. Under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, he and Dr. R. M. Anderson undertook the ethnological survey of the Central Arctic coasts of the shores of North America from 1908 to 1912. In 1908, Stefansson made a decision that would affect the rest of his time in Alaska: he hired the Inuk guide Natkusiak, who would remain with him as his primary guide for the rest of his Alaska expeditions. At the time he met Natkusiak, the Inuk guide was working for Capt. George B. Leavitt, a Massachusetts whaling ship captain and friend of Stefansson's who sometimes brought him replenishments of supplies from the American Museum of Natural History. Late in life, through his affiliation with Dartmouth College (he was Director of Polar Studies), he became a major figure in the establishment of the US Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire. CRREL-supported research, often conducted in winter on the forbidding summit of Mount Washington, was key to developing matériel and doctrine to support alpine conflict. Stefansson joined the Explorers Club in 1908, four years after its founding. He later served as Club President twice: 1919-1922 and 1937-1939. This book contains the great stories of explorations and tells them in the words of the discoverers themselves, their companions, or their contemporaries. The great tales which we are able to present are those of rediscovery. We can tell how the Greeks discovered the British Isles with the British already in them; how North Europeans discovered North America with the Indians there to meet them; how the Spaniards discovered the Pacific Ocean when the Chinese had already maintained on its shores a great empire through long ages; how modern navigators discovered islands a thousand miles from the nearest inhabited land to find living there the descendants of Stone Age navigators who had been the real discoverers. In our book you find some of history's big success stories, with merit finally and justly awarded, as in the case of the indomitable twenty-three-year struggle of Peary which led to his demonstrating that Greenland is an island, instead of being larger than Australia and thus a continent. This book, as the story of how man came to know his world, had endeavored to secure historical continuity by leading from one major narrative to the next through summaries of less important ones that belong in between, and by occasional passages of interpretations which seek to give the reader needed perspective. In a way, the book is an outline history of the world, told by its chief discoverers from Pytheas to Peary. Richard Edes Harrison (Maps) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 788 pages. No dj. Cover worn. Name on ffep. Text tanned.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919. Square, tight copy. NOT a library copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Six consecutive monthly issues, bound together in sturdy brown cloth. Contains Vol. CXXXIX (5 issues, July-Nov 1919) + Vol. CXL (1 issue, Dec 1919). Includes: THROUGH GERMANY ON FOOT [parts I, II, III, IV] by Harry A. Franck; QUINCUNX, A POEM by Amy Lowell; SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF THE ARCTIC [parts IV, V, VI] by Vilhjalmur Stefansson; MY CAPTURE AND ESCAPE by Lieut. John O.W. Gilchrist; EASTERN NIGHTS AND FLIGHTS by Captain Alan Bott [parts I, II, III, IV]; BEULAH, A STORY by Alice Hegan Rice; I KNOW THE STARS by Sara Teasdale; THE REAL CONQUEST OF THE AIR by Buckner Speed; HOSTS AND GUESTS by Max Beerbohm; MARSHAL FOCH: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT by Baron Andre De Maricourt; THE SECRET DOVE by Zona Gale; EIGHTY YEARS AND AFTER by W. D. Howells; WAR INVENTIONS THAT CAME TOO LATE by Frank Parker Stockbridge; Richard Le Gallienne; etc. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket. 8vo. 936pp. + 144pp. . …

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Argonaut Press. *** BOOK in fine condition, issued without dust jacket. This is the original two volumes published as one. Publisher's original fawn skivertex boards with gilt titles in dark brown panels on the spine and upper board. Top edge pale blue. This is a facsimile copy of the 1938 Argonaut Press work suffixed "In search of a passage to Cathay and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8. From the original 1578 text of George Best. Together with numerous other versions, Additions, etc. Now edited, with Preface, Introduction, Notes, Appendixes and Bibliography, . . . With the Collaboration of Eloise McCaskill, together with numerous maps and illustrations. cxxx (130) pages introduction, biography &c, then Volume I of 166 pages and Volume II of 293 pages, including 14 appendixes and index. Frontispiece, title page vignette, ( maps and illustrations - many of the maps are fold out and appear never to have been opened. Volume II has nine maps and illustrations. *** CONTENTS: This two volumes-in-one set describes the three voyages undertaken by Frobisher to Northern Canada to discover the North West Passage. Please note: this large and heavy book (packed weight just under 2kg) will be sent at default rates with the UK, and at Royal Mail rates and at Royal Mail rates overseas. Size: 255x200mm.…

Hardcover. First Edition. With the collaboration of Olive Rathbun Wilcox. Illustrated with maps designed by Richard Edes Harrison. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Stefansson on the half-title page on 27 January 1947 "For Dr. D C Coleman/from his admirer and/old friend." Also SIGNED by Wilcox and Harrison by their printed names on the title page. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. First Thus. Two volumes. 4to. Pp. cxxx, 166; 291. Frontis. black & white reproduction of a portrait of Martin Frobisher. Preface, introduction, and notes by the editor, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Illustrated with black & white illustrations, maps, and facsimiles, some of them fold-out. Bibliography. Index. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedowns. Bound in half-vellum over red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; color coat of arms to front covers. Rubbed edges; soiling to edges over cover of vol I, mild soiling to rear cover of both volumes. All told, an attractive set. Bookplates are those of prominent Australian surgeon Leslie Cowlishaw. Known as "the bibliophile from the bush," he laid the foundation for the prestigious Cowlishaw Collection at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.…