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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Trade paperback. Glued binding. xvi, 288, [4] p. Illustrations. Index. PQ 17 was the code name for an Allied convoy in the Arctic Ocean. In July 1942, Convoy PQ 17 lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships during a series of heavy enemy daylight attacks which lasted a week. The German success was possible through German signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cryptological analysis. The convoy was located by German forces on 1 July, after which it was shadowed continuously and attacked. The convoy's progress was being observed by the British Admiralty. The convoy was the first joint Anglo-American naval operation under British command in the war. The individual merchant ships were left without their escorting destroyers. The merchant ships were repeatedly attacked by Luftwaffe and U-boats. Of the initial 35 ships, only 11 reached their destination, delivering 70, 000 short tons of cargo. The disastrous outcome of the convoy demonstrated the difficulty of passing adequate supplies through the Arctic, especially during the period of perpetual daylight. Very good. Signed by author. Signed on t-p. Cover has slight wear and soiling. First U.S. Edition [stated]. Presumed First printing.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Various (illustrator). A collection of eighteen polar, travel, and adventure works, featuring account of important expeditions and early exploration into these harsh climates. Eighteen volumes. This set contains: The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 1932. Popular edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-six plates, four in-text images, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. Written by Sir Ernest Shackleton, an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. The Voyages and Works of John Davis, the Navigator, c1960. Later edition. Illustrated with a folding facsimile frontispiece, seventeen images, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. Edited with an introduction and notes from Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham, a British explorer, author, and officer in the Royal Navy. Glacier Island: The Official Account of the British South Georgia Expedition 1954-1955, 1957. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fourteen plates, and four maps. Collated complete. Written by George Sutton, an English explorer and leader of this expedition. The Lonely South, 1956. First translated edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-four plates, and three maps. Collated complete. Written by Andre Migot, a French doctor, traveler and writer. Translated by Richard Graves, an English a collector of poems, a translator, essayist and correspondent. Two Against the Ice, 1957. Travel Book Club edition. With a map to the front of the text. Written by Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish polar explorer and writer best known for his expeditions to Greenland. Translated by Maurice Michael, a British translator. Fourteen Men: The Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition to Heard Island, 1951. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. Written by Arthur Scholes, an Australian explorer noted for this expedition. The White Road: A Survey of Polar Exploration, 1959. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twelve plates, with seven maps and plans. Collated complete. Written by Sir Archibald Laurence Patrick Kirwan, a British archaeologist and geographer. Polar Exploration, 1939. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eight plates, and eight maps. Collated complete. Written by Colonel Noel Andrew Cotton Croft, a member of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War and an Arctic explorer, holding the longest self-supporting dog-sledge journey in the Guinness Book of Records for sixty years. Arctic Solitudes, 1953. First edition, third impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-two plates. Collated complete. Written by Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer. Skyward: Man's Mastery of the Air, 1928. First edition, fourth impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-eight plates. Collated complete. Written by Richard Evelyn Byrd, an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Those Greenland Days, 1932. First edition. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated complete. Written by Martin Lindsay, a British Army officer, polar explorer, politician and author. Northwest of the World: Forty Years' Trading and Hunting in Northern Siberia, 1951. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. Written by Olaf Swenson, a Seattle-based fur trader and adventurer active in Siberia and Alaska in the first third of the twentieth century. The Desolate Antarctic, 1950. First edition, second impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-two plates, and mapped endpapers. Collated complete. Written by Admiral Lord Mountevans. The Great North, 1957. First edition. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. Written by Felice Bellotti, an Italian explorer and author. Translated by James Cadell, a British translator and interpreter. The Great White South or With Scott in the Antarctic, 1928. First edition, eighth impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous images. Written by Herbert George Ponting, an English professional photographer best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition. Fifty Years Below Zero: A Lifetime of Adventure in the Far North, 1950. The Travel Book Club edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates. Collated complete. Written by Charles D. Brower, an American whaler, trader, and postmaster of Barrow, Alaska, dubbed the "King of the Arctic". Ordeal by Ice, 1961. First edition. Illustrated with four maps or plans. Selected and edited by Farley Mowat, a Canadian writer and environmentalist. Captain Scott, 1929. First edition. The Golden Mind Series. Illustrated with a frontispiece, six plates, and two folding plates. Collated complete. Written by Stephen Gwynn, an Irish journalist, biographer, author, poet and Protestant Nationalist politician. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spines of the odd volume with the odd mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Frontispiece loosening slightly to Arctic Solitudes. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, light age toning to the endpapers. Part of the front free endpaper of Skyward has been cut away, with a 1" closed tear to the frontispiece sympathetically repaired with tape. Very Good. book.