Lazell, J. Arthur.MareMagnum
Alcan Trail Blazers
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 66 pages. 8 1/2"w x 11"h. Many black and white photographs.
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218 p., illus. Hardcover Good condition in chipped d.j. fair
In-8, tela editoriale; ai risguardi è disegnata la mappa con il percorso della spedizione compiuta dall’A. (il Senatore Young) ed altri due compagni, all’interno dei territori dell’Alaska e dello Yukon. Il volume, di pp. (14), 273,(V), è ben illustrato nel t. da numerose immagini fotografiche in b.n. e da cartine geografiche. "Prima edizione". Ben conservato.
Browning to endpapers, as from a DJ; All edges gilt. Decorative boards with gilt lettering and gilt pictorial design ; 8vo; 410 pages
12mo [19.5 x 13 cm]; [ii], 402 pp, frontis, plates from photos, appendix. original pictorial gilt decorated cloth, all edges gilted, spine bit darkened, fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Nicely illustrated. Ricks p. 130. Wickersham 5337. Smith 5103.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 66 pages. 8 1/2"w x 11"h. Many black and white photographs.
128 pages. Features: A Tale of Two Carvers - The Rain Wall Screen of the Whale House, Klukwan, Alaska; Native Views - Influences of Modern Culture Aboard Artrain USA; "The Greatest Individual Hunter of Material in the North" - Collecting in Alaska, Canada and Chukotka with Captain Joseph-Fidele Bernard; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
104 pages. Features: Inuguat, Iinrut, Uyat-Llu - Yup'ik Dolls, Amulets and Human Figures; Nushagak Baskets - A case study in Fusion; Shishmaref - Whalebone Carving in an Inupiaq Village; Alaska Native Doll Makers; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Book shows light wear to covers only Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Oversize format, 85 pages b&w drawings throughout, maps.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear to cover. 132 pages. 9 3/4"w x 9 7/8"h. Many photos and illustrations.
222 pages including index and glossary. Fold-out map at page 15. Black and white photographic plates. "This book is the outcome of forty years residence amongst the Haidas, and is an accurate description of what I have seen and heard in the villages and homes. Through my knowledge of their language I have been enabled to get all my information regarding their customs, traditions and social organization direct from the principal chiefs, men who at that time were from sixty to eighty years old." - from Preface. Chapters include: Queen Charlotte Islands; Early History; The Haidas; Haida Customs; Births, Marriages, Divorce, Death and Burial Ceremonies; Tools, Ornaments and Ceremonial Masks; Industries and Medicines; The Sa-ag-ga or Shaman; The Haida Pantheon; Haida Legends; The Haida Traditions of Creation; Chief Edenshaw; The Natural History of the Islands; Geology of the Islands and Natural Resources. Appendix lists cranial measurements. Average wear. Binding intact. Red cloth-covered boards. Black lettering and decoration legible upon spine. Prior owner's stamp to bottom edge, front fixed and free endpapers, and title page. Faint bookseller's stamp to back fixed endpaper. A sound copy. Edwards & Lort 1668, Thibault 2,231. Book
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1951, pp.469-495, in the series "Miscellaneous Collections" N°4042
Washington, Smithsonian institution, 1937. In 8°, PP XI+431n. Brossura originale. Numerose illustrazioni in nero fuori testo, alcune tavole più volte ripiegate.
171 pages. Contents include: The Polar Oceans Progarm of the Alaska SAR Facility; Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Training Requirements in Arctic Canada; Topographic Data and Satellite Spectral Response in Subarctic High-Relief Terrain Analysis; Monitoring the Water Bodies of the Mackenzie Delta by Remote Sensing Methods; Operational Remote Sensing of Sea Ice; Remote Sensing of the Sea Surface Temperatures for Aquaculture Planning in Northern Norway; Remote Sensing of Permafrost by Ground-Penetrating radar at Two Airports in Arctic Canada; Mapping Muskox Habitat in the Canadian High Arctic with SPOT Satellite Data; Calibration of Aerial Thermal Infrared Imagery for Walrus Population Assessment; Detection and Classification of Muskox Habitat on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data; An Assessment of Bison Habitat in the Mills/Mink Lakes area, Northwest Territories; Preliminary Geologic Interpretation of SAR Data, Yellowknife-Hearne Lake Area; Monitoring Natural Vegetation in Southern Greenland Using NOAA AVHRR and Field Measurements; Satellite Geological Mapping of the Yellowknife Volcanic Belt; Measuring Climatc State Variables from SAR images of Sea Ice - The SIMS SAR validation site in Lancaster Sound; The Role of Imaging Radar in the Development of the Canadian Arctic - Background and applications; The Use of AVHRR Thermal infrared imagery to determine sea ice thickness withing the Chukchi Polyna; In Situ Measurements of Micro-Scale Surface Roughness of Sea Ice; Derivation of Snow Water Equivalent in Boreal Forests Using Microwave Radiometry; Lake and River Ice Investigations in Northern Manitoba using airborne SAR Imagery; Location and Areal Extent of Polynyas in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. Faint small crease to front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small paper flaw to one page and no bumping to corners. 176pp. A land of pristine wilderness, to where photographer Subhanker Banerjee devoted two years of his life documenting the land, its wild species and its Native peoples, with Inupiat guide Robert Thompson, travelling 4000 miles through the refuge on raft, kayak and snowmobile in all four seasons. This superb exhibition of his photographs is accompanied by essays from six people who know the area and a foreword by Jimmy Carter.
xliii, 859 pages. Footnotes, references, index. Black and white diagrams and reproductions of photos. "Provides insight at a ground level of Jenness' long, tough voyage of discovery, so that anyone interested in Arctic America or Canadian studies will find this journal a rare and enriching experience. Further, for Arctic scholars, this journal presents the detailed context for those pioneer monographs that launched the career of young Jenness and led to his becoming Canada's pre-eminent anthropologist." - dust jacket. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Modest bow to front board. Possible light cigarette scent. A sound reading copy of this fascinating early Arctic diary. Book
256 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and photographs in the text; blue boards, yellow cloth back lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
232 p., illus. by the author. Hardcover Very good condition; gift inscription on front endpaper
Maroon octavo ; 344 p. illus, maps, ports. ; 23 cm Alaska -- History -- Anecdotes
95 pages. Profusely illustrated in both colour and black and white. Written by one of the world's authorities on auroras, a professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska. "In these pages you will be introduced to the history of auroral science and the development of our understanding of the phenomenon, and we'll explain, in layman's language, what we now know about how the aurora works. Finally, the reasons for auroral study today will be outlined, with particular emphasis on its great relevance to our technological future." - from the introduction. Unmarked. Average wear. Six inch crease to lower corner of illustrated front cover. Book
444pp.+ qqs.planches hors-texte, br.orig., 22cm., 76e mille, bon état, R52903
215 pages. Index. Wonderfully illustrated in colour and black and white. "A grand, detailed book that will be a standard for years to come." - James A. Michener. "The history, development and redevelopment of the Aleut kayak" - from back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
301 pages. Black and white sketches in text. Occasional black and white photographic plates. Reprint of the 1913 First edition. Colour frontispiece illustration. Charming colour illustration of Baldy upon navy cloth front board. Binding intact. Average wear. Front free endpaper removed. White lettering upon backstrip faintly legible. A sound early copy of this beloved sled dog classic. Wickersham 2282. Book
