Books about scientists and their endeavors to learn more about the Arctic region through their research in fields including but not limited to anthropology, biology, marine biology, botany, climatology, earth science, ecology, ethnography, geophysics, geology, geography, glaciology, hydrology, and zoology,
New York: (Smithsonian Books) HarperCollins, 2009. First. Hardcover. [9.25x6.25 in.] 208 pp., blue and white cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, maps embedded in text block. Ex-library, but good clean copy, library stamp in title page, tape removed from boards. Dust jacket very good, slight bumping at bottom. After the.....
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. First American Edition. Hardcover. Folio [12.75x9.75ins] , 208 pp., black cloth-bound, silver-stamped lettering on spine. Book is near-fine, bumped corners but tightly bound. Dust jacket is fine, mylar-wrapped. Contains more than 300 original maps to illustrate five centuries of polar exploration. The author offers.....
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. First American Edition. Hardcover. Folio [12.75x9.75ins] , 208 pp., black cloth-bound, silver-stamped lettering on spine. Book is near-fine, bumped corners but tightly bound. Dust jacket has minor edge-creasing, mylar-wrapped. Contains more than 300 original maps to illustrate five centuries of polar exploration. The author.....
Boston: New England Aquarium and Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, 2003. First. Hardcover. [10.75 x 11.5] oblong folio book of photos and text. 75 pp., color & b/w plates, text ills., maps, references. Navy blue cloth boards with silver lettering on cover and spine. Book is fine, dust jacket shows shelf war.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. First. Hardcover. 8vo, 352 pp, (6.5x9.5") blue boards, silver-stamped title and author's name on spine. Like new. Lavelle has written a comprehensive history of U.S. involvement in the Arctic, beginning with the Alaska purchase and ending with the current concern over the Arctic's geostrategic importance.....
New York: American Geographical Society, 1948. First. Hardcover. [10.2 x 7 ins] 339 pp., 194 b/w photos, graphs, charts, and maps. Includes chapters by co-authors on geology, geomorphology, flora, hydrographic and topographical surveys, tidal and magnetic observations. Gray cloth boards with black title boxes with gilt stamped titles on cover and.....
New York: American Geographical Society, 1935. First. Hardcover. [10.2 x 7 ins] 369 pp., First edition. 363 b/w photos, maps, and illustrations, plus fold-out chart. Faint stain on rear board, near fine, errata slip tipped in.
Canton, Massachusetts: Scientific History Publications/USA (Watson), 2002. First. Hardcover. [9.25x6.25 in] ix, 373 pp, with illustrations, black cloth boards with silver stamped lettering on spine. Scarce. Very good, but evidence of underlining in chapters 2 and 3. The book is an anthology of nine essays reflecting Danish and Swedish scholarship on.....
New York: Scribners, 2015. First. Hardcover. [9.25x6.25in], 291 pp., beige and black boards, gold lettering on spine. Marshall argues that geopolitics is constrained by geography, and that it is impossible to understand international political events without a geographic context. He uses ten maps (including one of Greenland and the Arctic) to.....