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1 BALLANTYNE, R. M.: The Gorilla Hunters.
Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1908. 
New edition. Blue pictorial boards, gilt embossed. Colour frontpiece. Wax stain on rear board, corners & edges slightly bumped. Very light foxing & crease to fep, pale initials on contents page, several pages slightly creased towards edge. Otherwise a nice. bright copy. 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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2 BROWN, D. C.: JOURNEY FROM THE ARCTIC.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. 
1st edition. Pale blue boards, no dustwapper. Frontispiece. Numerous black-and-white plates. Contents: very good & clean. Boards: spine faded with small smudge mark. Panels slightly unevenly tanned. Otherwise a good, tight copy. 188 pp. 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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3 FAWCETT, P. H.: EXPLORATION FAWCETT.
London: Hutchinson, 1953. 
1st edition. Dark aqua cloth, not dustwrapper. Frontispiece. With decorations by Brian Fawcett. Contents: pages very good and clean. Closed tear edge of title-page. Boards: slightly rubbed. Spine lettering faded. slight surface marks. Otherwise a good, tight copy. 312 pp. 
Price: 12.00 GBP
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4 FRANK, R.: FROZEN FRONTIER: The Story of the Arctic.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1964. 
1st edition. Numerous black-and-white plates. Contents: very good & clean throughout. Dustwrapper: a few small nicks, chips and slight rubbing/creasing to edges & corners, otherwise very good and bright. 192 pp. 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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5 HAMILTON, R. A. (ed).: VENTURE TO THE ARCTIC.
Penguin/Pelican, 1958. 
1st (thus). Paperback. Illustrated. Corners a little curled and spine lightly creased & browned, otherwise a good, clean copy. 282 pp + publisher's lists. 
Price: 5.95 GBP
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6 HARDCASTLE, Nate (ed).: SURVIVE: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals.
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press / Adrenaline, 2001. 
Reprint. Soft-cover. Wraps. Illustrated. A very good, clean, bright copy. 301 pp + publisher's ads. 
Price: 8.50 GBP
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7 HENNESSEY, D. J. G.: GREEN AISLES: A Story of the Jungles of Ceylon.
Colombo: Colombo Book Centre, 1949. 
1st edition. Turquoise boards (no dustwrapper). With map and illustrations. Contents: a few page edges slightly nicked & front hinge a little fragile, otherwise very good. Boards: spine & edges rubbed. White smudge front panel. A few black smudges & dents on rear panel, otherwise good. 190 pp. 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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8 HOGG, Garry.: PORTUGUESE JOURNEY.
London: The Travel Book Club, (no dated, circa 1950s/1960s). 
Hardback in dustwrapper. Contents: very good+. Dustwrapper: spine unevenly sunned. Edges & corners a little nicked and creased, otherwise very good and bright. 208 pp. 
Price: 12.00 GBP
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9 HOPE, Stanton.: ONE ONLY LIVES TWICE.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1955. 
1st edition. Orange cloth (no dustwrapper). Boots Booklovers Library edition/binding. Frontispiece. With illustrations. Contents: generally very good, minimal spotting. Bottom margin of pages 257-264 torn (text not affected). Boards: very good & bright, one slightly bumped corner. 272 pp. 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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10 HUNTFORD, Roland.: SHACKLETON.
Abacus, 2002. 
Reprint. Soft-cover. Illustrated. A very good, bright copy. Owner's inscription inside front cover. 774 pp. 
Price: 9.95 GBP
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11 JONES, Max.: THE LAST GREAT QUEST: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice.
Oxford University Press, 2003. 
1st edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. Illustrated. Contents: pages very good and clean. Dustwrapper: very good and bright. A very good, tight copy. 352 pp. 
Price: 12.50 GBP
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12 KINGSTON, W. H. G.: ON THE BANKS OF THE AMAZON; or, A Boy's Journal of his Adventures in the Tropical Wilds of South America.
London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1897. 
Reprint. Hardback. Blue boards, gilt embossed lettering and decorations. Frontispiece. With one hundred illustrations. Contents: some pages quite generously smudged and darkened, but all text readable. Endpapers browned. Binding a little fragile in places. Owner's inscription fep. Boards: generously darkened, especially spine. Edges and corners moderately rubbed/scuffed. Spine corners frayed. Suitable as a reading/reference copy. 512 pp. 
Price: 15.00 GBP
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13 Lord KINROSS.: EUROPA MINOR.
London: The Travel Book Club, (no date, circa 1950s). 
Fine in very good+, bright dustwrapper. 167 pp. POST FREE UK. 
Price: 12.50 GBP
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14 MACDONALD, Malcolm Ross.: Discovery and Exploration: BEYOND THE HORIZON.
London: Reader's Digest, 1979. 
Reprint. Small folio. Cloth spine. Illustrated washable boards, no dustwrapper. Full of colour illustrations. A very good copy. 189 pp. 
Price: 8.50 GBP
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15 MOORHEAD, Alan.: COOPER'S CREEK.
London: The Reprint Society, 1965. 
Reprint. 1st (thus). Hardback in dustwrapper. With map and illustrations. A very good+ copy in very good+, bright dustwrapper. One corner slightly rubbed. 223 pp. 
Price: 9.50 GBP
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16 PAPE, Richard.: POLES APART: A fast-moving account of his adventures from Alaska to Antarctica.
London: Odhams Press Ltd., 1960. 
1st edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. With frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations. With forewords by Lord Rootes and Rear-Admiral George Dufek. Contents: light browning to endpapers. Otherwise pages generally very good and clean. Boards in very good shape. Dustwrapper: moderate rubbing/creasing to edges, becoming more pronounced towards corners. A few short internally closed tears. Otherwise good and bright. Price-clipped. A tight copy. 256 pp. 
Price: 8.00 GBP
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17 SAVA, George.: VALLEY OF FORGOTTEN PEOPLE.
London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1941. 
2nd impression. Light brown boards (no dustwrapper). A very good, clean, tight copy (corners very slightly rubbed). Neat owner's inscription fep. 295 pp. 
Price: 12.00 GBP
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18 TOWNSEND, Peter.: EARTH, MY FRIEND.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. 
1st edition. Green cloth, gilt embossed spine. No dustwrapper. Colour photo frontispiece. Illustrated by the author's own photographs. Maps endpapers. Numerous black-and-white photo illustrations. Contents: pages very good and very clean throughout. Previous owner's name stamp and inscription. Boards: base of spine slightly sunned. Bottom edge of front panel a little rubbed & whitened, otherwise a very good, tight copy. 351 pp. 
Price: 12.00 GBP
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19 UNSWORTH, Walt.: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MOUNTAINEERING.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. 
New enlarged and updated edition. Soft-cover. Illustrated. A very good, bright copy. 283 pp. 
Price: 12.50 GBP
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