McLYNN, FRANK

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: maritime exploration Captain James Cook history biography biographies

RODGER, N A M

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: W W Norton & Company 1994

KEYWORDS: history biography John Montagu earl of Sandwich 18th eighteenth century

GILBERT, BENTLEY BRINKERHOFF

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Ohio State University Press 1987

KEYWORDS: political biographies memoir biography politics British government Prime Ministers Davis Lloyd George government

POWERS, RICHARD GID

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1987

KEYWORDS: US America American FBI J Edgar Hoover history biography memoir biographies

FINNIS, BILL

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Chaucer Press 2003

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history biography memoir Captain James Cook sailors exploration

GRIBBIN, JOHN and MARY

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Review 2004

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history exploration weather forecasting forecasts Robert FitzRoy HMS Beagle meteorology biography New Zealand

EVISON, HARRY C

UNCOMMON, octavo, brown & white light card wrappers with french flaps, brown lettering to spine- faded, unpaginated prelims + 447pp, illus, VG+ (light to moderate fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl soiling to covers, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Panuitia Press 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand social history Walter Mantell biography biographies memoir racism race relations colonialism Maori pakeha

HODGKINSON, R

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, printed rear eps, errata slip pasted in to front pastedown, viii + 64pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Roebuck 1975

KEYWORDS: Roebuck series maritime nautical history Australia Australian whaling whalers Eber Bunker biography

BOMANN-LARSEN, TOR & HADOW, PEN (Fore) & CHRISTOPHERSEN, INGRID (Trans)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 384pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing 2006

KEYWORDS: exploration polar expeditions south pole Antarctica antarctic history biography memoir biographies Roald Amundsen explorers

MARWICK, WILLIAM

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 664pp, VG- (minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light discolouration to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, ffep missing, single library plate to front pastedown, 2x sm ink stamps to front eps, moderate soiling & unidentified residue to front & rear eps, other minor soiling to pages throughout, occasional minor cracking to gutters, moderate wrinkling to fore-edge of frontispiece)

PUBLISHER: Andrew Elliot 1897

KEYWORDS: history historical biography biographies memoir William Louisa Anderson Caribbean Jamaica old Calabar

HIMMLER, KATRIN & MITCHELL, MICHAEL (Trans)

Octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 333pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 2007

KEYWORDS: nazi Germany Heinrich Himmler family history biography autobiography Katrin Himmler war criminals holocaust

ORMISTON, ROSALIND & WELLS, NICHOLAS MICHAEL

Oblong quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 191pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing/curling to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Flame Tree Publishing 2013

KEYWORDS: art patterns design William Morris biography memoir biographies

LOMAX, JUDY

Ex-library, super octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 244pp, illus/photos, VG- (usual library markings, spine cocked & creased, moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate tape & residue to board edges, light to moderate tanning to page edges, minor soiling & tape/residue to eps, library tape reinforcement to front & rear gutter, occasional moderate cracking to gutters, occasional light soiling to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & light chipping to edges & spine, light tanning & fading to spine, other minor wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1988

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 aviation luftwaffe aerial warfare combat pilots Hanna Reitsch nazi Germany biography

Y OUNG-BRUEHL, ELISABETH

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, liii + 563pp, illus/photos, VG (light fading to spine & cover edges, light to moderate creasing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning/foxing & moderate soiling to page edges, light cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Hannah Arendt biographies philosophy politics political

VOOGT, GERRIT

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 268pp, illus, VG (light to moderate fading to spine & cover edges, minor chafing & curling/creasing to covers/edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, minor pencil markings/annotation to margins)

PUBLISHER: Truman State University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: biography Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert biographies memoir history historical philosophy

SEAVER, GEORGE & CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY (introduction)

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Butler & Tanner Ltd 1951

KEYWORDS: biography Edgar Christian exploration travel polar exploration south pole antarctica

GREENE, RICHARD

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown 2020

KEYWORDS: biography Graham Greene mental health suicide politics religion literary

SMITH, MICHAEL

Super octavo softcover (VG+) all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Headline Book Publishing 2002

KEYWORDS: biography Tom Crean Antarctic voyage exploration travel adventure expedition

HAYTER, REBECCA

Super octavo hardcover (VG+): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: HarperCollinsPublishers 2004

KEYWORDS: maritimie nautical biography Chris Sayer adventures travel