Search Results: Titles starting with A from Barking Mad Books

AFTER EVEREST - The experiences of a mountaineer and medical missionary, Howard Somervell, 1936 1st edn., Hodder & Stoughton, London, 339 page hardback in original green cloth with gilt titles, extremely scarce original jacket with a some small pieces missing/spine fade but overall bright, archival tape repair - endpaper map of 1924 attempt on north/Tibet side Chomolungma, frontispiece painting by Somervell with glassine protection, B&W plates throughout with fold-out map of Travancore in Sthn India where Somervell was a medical missionary. Lovely biography covering early war years, Everest 1922 and 1924 expeditions, his music & his superb mountain paintings - Very hard to find in this condition with original jacket THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

AHAB'S TRADE - The saga of South Seas Whaling - Granville Mawer, St Martin's Press, New York, 1st edition, 1999, VG+ with good dustjacket, Great B&W illustrations, 390 pages, Gladiator one minute galley slave the next. Danger and abuse, excitement and tedium, these were the lot of open boat whalemen in the South Seas for more than two centuries. The good, the mad, and the ugly tell their tales of high-seas excitement, focusing on the history of South Sea whalers known as the Nantucketers. A history of the whaling industry in British, French, Australian and New Zealand waters. Describes the world of whaling, its unique pressures, its difference from other seaman's trades, and the stories of those who survived the occupation. A fine piece of research. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ALBATROSS - Their world, their ways - Tui De Roy, Mark Jones, Julian Fitter, 240 page large format hardback, David Bateman, Auckland, 2009 reprint, VG+ hardback with VG jacket, as new, - a definitive reference book on every species, natural history and their conservation... a masterpiece of photography.
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ALONE - RICHARD BYRD - Putnam, London, 1st UK edn.2nd imp, 1939, original blue cloth, gilt titles, facsimile jacket, sl foxing, previous owner's small stamp prelims, - Byrd's tale of his 1934 solo part-winter inland from Little America station on the Ross Ice Shelf, during which he had to be rescued by his men when it became clear he was suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. A nice addition to a polar library - a classic THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE ALPS, Prof F Umlauft, Kegen Paul, London, 1889 1st edn., 2 fold-out maps, 110 illustrations, original decorated boards darkened, some foxing on tissue guards 7 plates but overall pretty good, Scholarly description of each region in The Alps - scarce THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER - Dr Pennell, Seeley Service & co., London, 1922 edn., bright fine original green cloth with decorations, B&W plates, internally VG, no foxing " A record of 16 years close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches" THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE ANCIENT RUINS OF RHODESIA, R HALL & W NEAL, Methuen, London, 1902, original blue cloth with gilt decoration and gilt titles, silverfish damage to boards and spine..but, overall a bright sound copy, very large foldout map of Rhodesia in rear pocket, some tears but complete, profusely illustrated with B&W plates, diagrams - Geography, mining, archaeology - a detailed account. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANNAPURNA SOUTH FACE, signed by Chris Bonington, Book Club Associates, London, first edition 2nd imp, 1971, 334 page hardback, Good jacket with tape glue marks top/bottom, one small tear, now protected in plastic covering, previous owner's name stamp on endpaper. The first big Himalayan wall to be climbed - great story, well written, super expedition photography. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED.

ANNAPURNA II, Captain R Grant, William Kimber, London, 1961 1st edn., B&W plates, chipped jacket, piece missing from base of jacket spine, previous owner's signature fep, British military expedition involving Jimmy Roberts and Chris Bonington.
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THE ANTARCTIC TODAY - A mid century survey by the New Zealand Antarctic Society - Edited by Frank Simpson, Large 388 page hardback with VG+ dustjacket, AH & AW Reed in conjunction with NZ Antarctic Society, Wellington, 1952, large fold-out Antarctic regions map in rear pocket, - 18 essays by scientists & historians such as Cumpston, Dell, Odell, Fleming, Falla, Law & Quartermain a cornerstone book for any New Zealand polar library. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANTARCTIC's VOYAGE TO THE SOUTHERN OCEAN. An English translation signed by Paul Chaplin, from the historic Norwegian journals of Captain Leonard Kristensen. A narrative of the 1893-95 sealing and whaling expedition during which the first verified landing on the Antarctic continent was made at Cape Adare, Northern Victoria land.Printed by Caxton Press in A5 format with 236 pages and 3 fold-out charts, it includes multiple illustrations from the original journals. Available signed in both hard and soft cover versions.Soft cover THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANTARCTICA'S FORGOTTEN MEN - Les Quatermain, Millwood press, Wellington, 1st edn., 1981, VG with original blue cloth with sl sun faded dustjacket, - Ten well-crafted mini-biographies of lesser known Antarctic pioneers - William Bruce, Charles Royds, Bill Lashly, Prof Edgeworth David, Dick Richards, etc THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANTARCTIC RESEARCH, Sir Raymond Priestley, Ray Adie, Gordon De Q Robin, Butterworths, London, 1964, 360 page VG+ hardback in original blue cloth, silver titles, in slip case, Profusely illustrated, maps, charts, etc of British Scientific Research in Antarctica - A most comprehensive piece of work up to 1963. - polar travel, sledge, dogs, biology, survey work, glaciology auroral studies, seals and sealing, whaling, polar ships etc THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANTARCTICA, The extraordinary history of man's Conquest of the Frozen Continent. Revised / updated with extra chapters on tourism & Trans-antarctic dog sledging expedition written by Colin Monteath - Signed Colin Monteath principal photographer, Reader's Digest, Sydney, 1990, VG+ with VG+ jacket, large format. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANTARCTICA - LAND OF SILENCE - Colin Monteath, David Ling publishers, Auckland, 95 pages, 1st edn., 2010, softbound - signed by author & polar photographer Colin Monteath - Introductory essay plus 100+ colour plates selected from 32 seasons in Antarctica -THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE ANTARCTIC PILOT, Comprising the Coasts of Antarctica and All Islands Southward of the Usual Route of Vessels.- Published by the Hydrographic department of The Admiralty, London, 2nd edition, 1948, 370 page hardback in original blue cloth, yellow titles, fold-out charts, covers slightly bowed otherwise VG+, v minor foxing. Uncommon THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANTARCTICA - Beyond the Southern Ocean - signed by Colin Monteath, 2nd edn., 1997 - four essays with associated colour plates from author's first 20 seasons in Antarctica - wildlife, sub-antarctic islands, tourism and mountaineering, Ross Island/Scott Base/Dry Valleys/DC10 accident/Mt Erebus - VG+ in VG jacket - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANTARCTIC PSYCHOLOGY, Professor Tony Taylor, Science Information Publishing Centre, Wellington, 1987, 145 page large format softbound VG+, B&W plates, diagrams, graphs, for 30+ years Tony Taylor looked after the mental wellbeing of Scott base staff working for NZARP - a detailed study that says much about the pressures of life especially during the winter in Antarctica Very hard to find. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE ARCTIC WHALERS - Basil Lubbock, Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., Nautical publishers, Glasgow, 1978 Edn (originally published 1937): Hardback, 350 pages, VG, almost mint with VG+ dustjacket, numerous B&W illustrations, fold-out plans for square-riggers, bookplate of Colin Monteath - Lubbock's detailed history of whaling, its ships and seamen from the earliest times to WWI, British whaling in the Arctic, Svalbard, wintering in the Arctic, Greenland, Baffin Bay & David Straits One of the classics in Lubbock's series on sail-powered vessels. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE ASCENT OF RUM DOODLE - W.E. Bowman - Max Parrish, London, First UK edition, 1956, Hardback, in scarce dustjacket with spine piece missing, tape marks on both endpapers. Time-honoured classic of the first ascent of Rum Doodle, in the fashion of the true mountaineering epics of the 1950s. A parody of the Himalayan expedition stories documenting the ascent of Rum Doodle, estimated at somewhere around 40,000 feet, complete with confessions about the mountaineers' failures at romantic relationships, horrible camp cooking, lousy navigation and all the physical hardships of mountaineering at impossibly high elevations. Illustrations mainly from magazines/books of the day With the bookplate Ex Libris John Nankervis. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED