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1994Features: First President of the Explorer's Club - Major General Adolphus Washington Greely; Kisil Trepanation - an ancient Surgical Procedure in Modern-day Kenya; The 1918 Expedition by Jim and Maud Watt across the Frozen Wilderness of Labrador-Ungava; The Little Known Heroes of Halley Bay; The Asian Elephant, Elephas Maximus, and Chinese Culture; Madagascar Notebook - The 1992 Elder-Haddad Anambanzana Expedition; Kenya Wildlife Habitats - Changes and Challenges. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1994Features: The Day We Bombed Mt. McKinley; South of the Antarctic Circle; Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Safari Photographers; Society's Antithesis - Wedding Dance of the Samburu; Inti Raymi - Inca Festival of the Sun; Measuring the Three Highest Mountains in Greenland; Willard Glazier and the Discovery of the Headwaters of the Mighty Mississippi. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1994Features: Cruising across the Arctic Ocean; Mapping the North - Who Was Really Where When?; The Last Resort - Cannibalism in the Arctic; Plying the Northwest Passage - The First Single-Season Traverse by Yacht; Plants of the Arctic Tundra; Capturing the North - The Work of Claire Fejes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1995Features: On Wildlife - Education - the key to Understanding; Mission Planet Earth - the future of Underwater Exploration; Diving Solo to 1,000 Meters and Beyond; Ocean Everest - Reaching Earth's Greatest Depths; Arms Race of Antiquity - a Quest for Naval Supremacy. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1995Features: On Wildlife - Ambassadors for Wildlife; The Building of Tibet; Measuring the Roof of the World; Power Places of Kathmandu (Katmandu); A man and his castle - a visit with Reihnold Messner; The Eight Summits; Bhutan Diary - a Kingdom Comes of Age. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1995Features: On Wildlife - messages for a New Millennium; Death of a Comet - The discovery and Demise of Shoemaker-Levy 9; A Bridge to the Stars - Tethered Satellites in Space; Strange New Worlds - The Quest for Extra-Solar Planets; A View from Space - NASA's new generation of Satellites. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1995Features: On Wildlife - Elephant Stories; Footprints from the Past - Conservation Efforts at Laetoli, Tanzania; A Quest for Human Origins; Sacred Ceremonies - African Rites of Passage; Exploring the Giza Plateau; KV 5 - The Tomb of the Sons of Ramesses II; The Spirit of Exploration photo contest. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1996Features: On Wildlife - Talking to the animals; Mount Wilson Reborn - a new era dawns for "America's Observatory"; Nomads of the High Plateau; The Case of the Caverna da Pedra Pintada - Rewriting South America's Ancient History; Roof of the Americas Expedition - Challenging Britain's Best. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1996Features: On Wildlife - Fiddling while Rome burns; Expedition News; Is Everest for Everyone? - an Expedition news Special Report; Yeronisos - Sanctuary of Apollo; Technology Before Its Time - A Byzantine Ship from Tantura Lagoon; The Naturalist Genius of Leonardo da Vinci. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1996Features: A future for zoos?; On Eagle's Wings - spacecraft for the 21st century; Challenging a dragon - descending the mighty Mekong; Spiritual Summits - Mountainscapes; Expedition Mongolia - A window on the past; Graven Images - The Rock art of the Helan Shan; Sheep Domestication on the roof of the world. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
1996Features: On Wildlife - it's a jungle out there; Notes from the Bandiagara Escarpment; Journey through an Ancient Land; Seeking the Source of the Song of God; Mission to Mars - a quest for life. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1997Features: On Wildlife - Last rites for the Rhino; Kon-Tiki 50 Years Later; El Nino's Wrath; Seeking Paradise - a trek through the Tahitian Outback. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1997Features: Special Report - Alone across Antarctica; Saving an African Legacy; Forest Medicine; On Wings of Hope. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1988Features: The Xinjiang - Tibet Mountain Bike Expedition; The Dyaks of Borneo; Walking to Cape Londonderry, Western Australia; Time and Tide; The Flight of the Arctic Tern; The Chariot Animals of Queen Shub-Ad at Ur; Henry S. Evans - Profile of Accomplishment. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1988Features: The Black Caiman of Zancudo Cocha; Solo in the Arctic; Explorations Among the Stars; In Search of Hypercharge - A Matter of Some Gravity; Huautla; Yamantaka - Tibet's Yak-headed Deity; Soko Islands, South China Sea. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1988Features: Which is the Highest Mountain in the World; The National Geographic Society Looks to the Future; Lowell Thomas and the Youth Activities Fund; What is Adventure?; In Search of Pharaoh's Ship; Long Vistas and Stone Arches; Our Arctic Heritage; Matthew henson, Polar Explorer; Quest for the Coelacanth; The Ethics of Exploration; The Polar Explorers Stamp Series. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1988Features: Capturing Satellites in Space looking back at earth; Waiting for a Vision; Exploring Earth's Life Support System; Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette; Ecuador's Forest Refuge; The Rock Art of Cape York Peninsula; Indian Sites of the Alaskan Islands; Why we do it; The Great Horned Owl. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
194134 pages. Loaded with great black and white photos. Features: The Morning After the Blitz; Hitler's Spring Offensive - the diary of the war No. 84; Convoy - the Channel Convey is the most highly-organized convey afloat; That Admiral Darlan (of France) - the man who has tried to deceive and injure Britain; Open Air Camp - American girls train at Sergeant Camp in New Hampshire; Foundling Hospital - One of England's most famous schools; Does Backyard Farming Pay? - the Jones family shares their experience. Nice full-page two-colour ad for Batchelor's canned fruits and vegetables on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1968101 pages including index. Black and white photos. "It is a truism that wherever and whenever men formed settlements on this continent a newspaper of some kind would soon be born. Commencing in 1875, more than 30 newspapers have been published in Fort William and Port Arthur in Thunder Bay District at the head of Lake Superior. This book represents an invaluable and rare contribution to the history of news media in Canada. It is almost a paradox that Canada's most powerful news medium..has had so little to say about itself throughout the years." - from forward. Average wear, sound binding. Small 0.5mm openings top of dust jacket back panel. Book
1986168 pages. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Moderate wear. Contents include: Conception; Survey and Construction; The Last Spike; The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Land Grant; Passenger Service; The Development of Freight Service; Weather, High Water and Wrecks; E&N Presidents and other personalities; Early Facilities and Locomotives; The Sale of the E&N; Contract for Construction; Locomotive Roster; Engine Movements from Dispatcher's Diary; E&N Employees in the running trades; Railway Statistics; Abstracts of Payroll, 1905. Unmarked. Moisture exposure to last 10 pages or so has resulted in modest undulating. Binding sound. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this uncommon and highly informative work. Book
192587 pages + viii pages of advertisements. Large fold-out map of Onitsha Province, Nigeria affixed inside back cover. Articles include: The Fourth Centenary of the Death of Vasco da Gama; Physiological Difficulties in the Ascent of Mount Everest; The People of the Aures Massif; Notes on the Ibo Country, Southern Nigeria; The Japanese Earthquake of 1 September 1923; The Mount Everest Film of 1924; Two Ancient Monuments in Southern Kurdistan (including two pages of black and white photographic plates); Memorial to Mungo Park and Richard Lander; Notes on the Ross Sea. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
1980Almost two inches thick. Some of the many topics include: Blood feud between Iraq and Iran; Uniforms for white collar industries; Shelly Duvall; Helmut Schmidt; Pierre Trudeau and Canada's Arctic Oil; Lindsay Wagner; Urban Cowboy; Strike by PSAC; Anne Murray; Politically incorrect lawn jockeys; Burt Reynolds; William Pollock and Drake International; France's Nuclear Gamble; Rita Moreno; Vietnamese Boat People; CDC - Canada Development Company is now majority-owned by private shareholders; El Asnam Earthquake; Brian Peckford - Confederation's Bad Boy; Carter vs. Reagan campaign; Tennessee Williams; Monique Leyrac; Big Government Squeezes Big Oil; Trudeau's National Energy Policy (NEP); Sterling Lyon; Michaele Jordana; Reza Pahlavi assumes the mantle of Shah in exile; Reagan Beats Carter; Single parent poverty; Problems with the Dall Sheep in the Kluane Lake area of the Yukon; Lockeport Nova Scotia has lost three fish plants but the people remain strong; Melody Anderson; The Global Struggle for Human Rights; Discovering Saturn; Susan Jacks; Lynn Johnston; Roy McMurtry and RCMP wrongdoing; The West Goes Wild over federal energy policy; Douglas Christie and the Western Canadian Concept; Sharon Timmins; Nick Taylor; John Fraser views China; The Pain Threshold; Mood Drugs - cure or curse; Cherie Lunghi; Farewell to Jules Leger; Devastating earthquake in southern Italy; Search for an industrial strategy for Canada; Viktor Beleko lands his Soviet Union Foxbat aircraft in Japan; Two Hungarians defect to Canada; Soviet tanks roll into Poland; Joni Mitchell dons black face to play a pimp; John Lennon killed - cover photo; Brooke Shields; Poles in search of food; The Kent Commission looks at the concentration of Newspaper ownership; Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. Book
1964Articles include: Reducing the Hazards of Being Born; Fort Hood - Sparta Goes Suburban; An African Student in China; My Poetic Career in Vermont Politics; Columbia's Unorthodox Seminars; What is a Jew?; J.F.K. - Portrait of a President; What Psychiatry can and cannot do; Second Thoughts on the Religious Revival; Small Rebellion in Miami; Why Nobody Can't Write no good; Los Angeles' Cultural Curcus; A Draftee's Diary from the Mississippi Front; Harold Wilson's Britain; Arms and the Big Money Men; Attack on Poverty; The Uncompleted Man; The Strange Twilight of Harry Bridges; Every Artist needs a hard-boiled patron; Italy's Forgotten City; Crime and Punishment - special supplement; Oswald in Moscow; JFK's voyage of discovery; If I were a company President; New Jersey's search for identity; Give slum children a chance; The Jews in Germany Today; Aldous Huxley in California; A New Kind of National Election; The Quickening War against Viruses; The Scotch in Canada; Miami Notebook - Cassius Clay and Malcolm X; The Psychiatrist in the Looking Glass; A Negro Governor for Massachusetts; What's to Become of Architecture; Why Labor Lost the Intellectuals. Light wear. Binding tight. Few library markings. Book
1966Over one inch thick. Many black and white photos. Features include: Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Minimal library markings. Book
196840 pages. Features: Athabasca Tar Sands; The New N.W.T.; Canada's Bouquet - By Law; Point Edward - A Village in a City; The Alligator - Unique Canadian Boat; Gambia - Africa's Smallest Country. Includes colour flower illustrations plus many great archival black and white photos. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
