Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 ARCTIC SECTION 1. ALASKA & YUKON. Alaska and the Yukon. Skagway to Dawson. Via White Pass and Yukon Route. 20 Real Photographs for your snapshot album. Vancouver. The Gowen Sutton Co. n.d. [193??]. 20 snapshot photographic views (9x7cm), in fold over printed shipping case, fine 35.00 Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 2. ANONYMOUS Historic Tinned Foods. Greenford. International Tin Research and Development Council. 1939. 21.5cm, 70p., frontispiece, 22 plates and illustrations, illustrated boards (hardcover), a very good to fine copy 25.00 Includes sections on: Parry’s Tin of Roast Veal, Parry’s Tin of Carrots and Gravy, Belcher’s Tin of Roast Beef, and Libby’s canned Tripe. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 3. [BEECHEY]. Bershad, Sonia S. The Drawings and Watercolours by Rear Admiral Frederick William Beechey, (1796- 1856). In the Collection of the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary. Note: This reprint supersedes the text printed in the March issue of Arcitc ... 1980. [1981]. 25cm, pp117-167, with 37 illustrations, reference, printed wrapper, as issued, with library stamp on the upper cover else fine 40.00 Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 4. BOUDREAU, N.J. (Managing Editor). The Athabaskans: Strangers of the North. An international travelling exhibition from the collection of the National Museum of Man, Canada, and the Royal Scottish Museum. Ottawa. National Museum. 1974. 4to. 27cm, 208p. 2 maps, with 268 plates and illustrations (inc. several colour plates), bibliography, illustrated wraps, very good to fine 25.00 "devoted entirely to the Indians of Alaska and Northwestern Canada, and combines the best material from two of the foremost collections.." Foreword. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 5. CANADA. National Museum. Inuit Print. A travelling exhibition of the National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. (bilingual). Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. 1977. oblong4to. 23x 26cm, 267p., with 155 plates including 12 in colour, map, appendices, bibliography, colour illustrated stiff wraps, very good to fine 40.00 A retrospective of the first twenty years of Canadian Inuit prints. Selected from a collection numbering in the thousands begun in 1957 at Cape Dorset by Oshowetuk and James Houston. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 6. COOKMAN, Scott Ice Blink. The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition. New York. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000. 22.5cm, first edition, xii, 244p., text illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index, fine in fine jacket 25.00 "Ice Blink" was the name nineteenth-century sailors gave polar mirages, caused by light reflected off the ice pack. An appendix provides a muster roll of officers and men of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 7. DE BRAY, Emile Frédéric A Frenchman in Search of Franklin. De Brayès Arctic Journal, 1852-1854. Translated and Edited by William Barr. Toronto, Buffalo, London. University of Toronto Press. 1992. 8vo. 23cm, xxii,339p., frontis portrait, maps and illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, green cloth, a fine copy in fine jacket 35.00 Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 8. DOUGLAS, George M. Lands Forlorn. The Story of an Expedition to Hearne's Coppermine River. With Douglas' journal and maps from his First Journey to the Coppermine and some letters pertaining to the expedition. Edited by Robert S. Hildebrand. Tucson, AZ. Zancudo Press. 2008. 8vo, new edition, 404p., with over 200 plates, illustrations, line drawings & maps, dark blue cloth, in colour illustrated jacket, new 42.50 A new and expanded edition which includes an extended foreword, documenting the lives of George and Lionel Douglas; various letters to and from James Douglas, sponsor of the expedition; and a diary, with maps, of their first two-man trip to the Coppermine River. "Only a few books of far northern travel have the quality of classics; George Douglas's Lands Forlorn is one of these select few" - Robert Cockburn, University of New Brunswick, Editor, Sleeping Island. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 9. FRANKLIN, John Narrative of a Journey to the Polar Sea. With an introduction by Capt. R.F. Scott. London & New York. J.M. Dent & E.P. Dutton. 1924. 16mo. 17.2cm, x,434p., green cloth, gilt spine titles, very good to fine, Everyman's Library 40.00 Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 10. GOODSELL, John W. On Polar Trails: The Peary Expedition To the North Pole, 1908 - 09. Revised and Edited by Donald W. Whisenhunt. Austin, Texas. Eakin Press. 1983. 22cm, xi,202p. notes, index, portrait, map and 4 plates, fine in fine jacket 30.00 This is the first publication of Surgeon John Goodsell manuscript of his account of the Peary expedition - he was the only member who did not publish at the time. The aftermath of the expedition generated a bitterness toward Peary and feelings that the members of the expedition had been denied the recognition they had earned Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 11. HARPER, Kenn In Those Days. Collected Writings on Arctic History, Book 2: Arctic Crime and Punishment. Iqaluit. Inhabit Media. 2015. 23cm, 156p., map, illustrations from photographs, fine, new 20.00 A collection of tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 12. HEARNE, Samuel A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to The Northern Ocean undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of Copper Mines, A North West Passage, &c. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Edmonton. M.G. Hurtig Ltd.. 1971. 4to. 26cm, facsimile reprint, lvi,458p. with 5 folding maps (frontis coloured in outline) & 4 folding plates, red cloth, a fine copy in fine complete jacket 150.00 One of the classic journals of North American travel, particularly notable in terms of Arctic exploration, Hearne will always be remembered as the first white man to see the Arctic Ocean. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 13. [HUISH, Robert] The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, To The Arctic Regions; for the Discovery of a North West Passage; performed in the years 1829-30-31-32- and 33. To which is prefixed An Abridgement of the former Voyages of Captns, Ross, Parry, & Other Celebrated Navigators to the Northern Latitudes. Compiled from Authentic Information and Original Documents, transmitted by William Light, Purser's Stewart to the Expedition. Illustrated by Engravings from Drawings Taken on the Spot. London. Printed for the Proprietors, Published by John Saunders. 1836. thick8vo, 21.5cm, [1],716,[1],44p. (supplement), engraved frontis portrait of Ross and engraved vignette title page, and 6 engraved plates, 1 folding table, dictionary of the Esqimaux language, appendix, and supplement "On the Position of The North Magnetic Pole", rebound in modern blue cloth, gilt spine titles, foxed, a very good copy 300.00 Please note: in this copy the printed title page (as above) is placed before the appendix and pagination is indicated on the verso with the last page on an introduction printed to one third from the bottom. cf. A.B. 7528. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 14. FRANKLIN, Sir John, (Edited with introduction by Richard C. Davis) Sir John Franklin's Journals and Correspondence: The First Arctic Land Expedition. 1819- 1822. Toronto & Ottawa. The Champlain Society & The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. 1995. thick8vo, 23cm, cix,463, xxiiipp., with 4 plates (5 illustrations), 3 maps (2 double-page), appendix, index, navy blue cloth, silver spine titles, fine. Signed by editor 65.00 A nearly complete transcription of the extant journals kept by John Franklin, along with a selection of correspondence, during his expedition to the unknown northern coast of the North American continent in the years 1819 to 1822. This blue cloth bound volume, a joint publication by The Champlain Society and The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, was issued, autographed, before The Champlain Society edition on the first day of issue - 14 October 1995. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 15. [HAYES, Isaac I]. Periodical. Biographical Sketch of Dr. Isaac I. Hayes. By George . Cullum. In: Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York. MDCCCLXXXXI. Vol. XIII. pp110-124. New York. Printed for the Society. 1881. 8vo, 22.5cm, 219p., in the original tan fine grain book linen, gilt spine titles, several small internal library stamps, fine 125.00 A tribute, by the Society vice-president, to American Arctic explorer, Isaac Hayes on his passing on December 17, 1881. Primarily about the Arctic expeditions of 1853, 1860 and 1869. Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. mcgahernbooks.ca order line 613-230-2277 16. KANE, Elisha Kent Arctic Explorations in Search of Sir John Franklin. London. T. Nelson and Sons. 1882. 12mo, 20cm, xii,[1],10- 443,[1]p., frontis plate view, 76 plates and illustrations from engravings, folding map, in the original brick brown cloth, gilt stamped titles and small decorations on the spine, black stamped titles and borders on the upper cover, bevelled boards, foxed on the text edges, else a fine copy 100.00 A reprint of Kane's famous account of his mission to northwestern Greenland to rescue the missing British explorer, Sir John Franklin Patrick McGahern Books, Inc.