Chessler Books
Rock Climbing - Mountaineering - Exploration
New - Used - Collectible - Signed
Chessler Books Accepts PAYPAL Chessler Books Accepts VISA Chessler Books Accepts MASTERCARD Chessler Books Accepts DISCOVER CARD Chessler Books Accepts AMERICAN EXPRESS
All Orders Shipped via United States Postal Service   Chessler Books Ships Via USPS
Author:
Title:
Keyword:
Item #:
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M Mc N O P Q
R S T U V W X Y Z
Item #: PL90-9584
THE FOURTH WORLD: THE HERITAGE OF THE ARCTIC AND ITS DESTRUCTION Hall 1988 Softcover Near Fine Multiple Copies Available
By Hall, Sam
Price: $1.49

List Price: $8.95
You Save $7.46 (83%)



Add to wish list


Detailed Product Description
New York, Vintage, 1988. 240 pp, maps. Used paperback. Near Fine.

The history of the Arctic and the danger of environmental degradation. Life on the ice: sealers, trappers, oilers and the cold war. For millennia the lands within the Arctic Circle, from Canada to Greenland to the Soviet Union, were a world apart, protected by distance and climate from invasion and exploitation and amply supporting the Eskimos (Inuit), and Lapps (or Sami), and other tribes scattered across the huge expanse of ice, land, and water. Then, beginning hundreds of years ago, the white man came. First the whalers, explorers, traders, and missionaries, and now the oil men, the dam builders, the military, the bureaucrats. The result, for the Arctic and its people, has been devastation. 

Other Items You Might Like

  • Similar Items Available
  • Items From This Author
  • Items From This Category
ALPINE JOURNAL 100s OF INDIVIDUAL ISSUES LISTED HERE! PAPERBACK, WRAPPERS or HARDCOVER ISSUES 1863-1986
By: Alpine Club UK
Price $10.00
- Item # JR207B
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
SUMMIT MAGAZINE BACK ISSUES 1960-1969 See This List
By: Summit Magazine
Price $10.00
- Item # JR154J-936
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
MAZAMA BULLETIN INDIVIDUAL BACK ISSUES 1905 - 1975 New issues recently added
By: Mazama Bulletin
Price $5.00
- Item # JR225-127
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
DEAD LUCKY: LIFE AFTER DEATH ON MOUNT EVEREST Lincoln Hall 2008 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available
By: Hall, Lincoln
Price $4.99 ~ Regular $24.95, You Save $19.96 (80%)
- Item # BK2362A-96615
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
TRAIL AND TIMBERLINE 1962 - 1998 As Available Not a Set $5 each
By: Colorado Mountain Club
Price $5.00 ~ Regular $10.00, You Save $5.00 (50%)
- Item # JR727A-966
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ALIVE IN THE DEATH ZONE: MOUNT EVEREST SURVIVAL Lincoln Hall 2009 Hardcover Very Good-Near Fine 2 Copies Available, ALIVE IN THE DEATH ZONE: MOUNT EVEREST SURVIVAL Lincoln Hall 2009 Hardcover Very Good-Near Fine 2 Copies Available
By: Hall, Lincoln, Hall, Lincoln
Price $24.95 ~ Regular $40.00, You Save $15.05 (38%)
- Item # BK4460-9482p, BK4460-9482p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
FATAL NORTH: ADVENTURE AND SURVIVAL ABOARD USS POLARIS, THE FIRST U.S. EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH POLE Bruce Henderson 2001 1st ed Hardcover Fine
By: Henderson, Bruce
Price $12.50 ~ Regular $23.00, You Save $10.50 (46%)
- Item # PL4488-960
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE CLIMBING ART MAGAZINE Individual Back Issues Number 1 to 31
By: Climbing Art Magazine, Pat Ament
Price $5.00
- Item # JR156-127
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE FOURTH WORLD: THE HERITAGE OF THE ARCTIC AND ITS DESTRUCTION Sam Hall 1987 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine 2 Copies Available
By: Hall, Sam
Price $1.49 ~ Regular $17.95, You Save $16.46 (92%)
- Item # PL90A-9582
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ARCTIC DREAMS IMAGINATION AND DESIRE IN A NORTHERN LANDSCAPE Barry Lopez Softcover Near Fine
By: Lopez, Barry
Price $3.95 ~ Regular $15.00, You Save $11.05 (74%)
- Item # PL283A-960
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE FOURTH WORLD: THE HERITAGE OF THE ARCTIC AND ITS DESTRUCTION Sam Hall 1987 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine 2 Copies Available
By: Hall, Sam
Price $1.49 ~ Regular $17.95, You Save $16.46 (92%)
- Item # PL90A-9582
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ALLE MEINE GIPFEL [ALL MY PEAKS] 1984 Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Reinhold Messner
By: Messner, Reinhold
Price $49.99 ~ Regular $150.00, You Save $100.01 (67%)
- Item # BK1015-950p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
SOUTH WITH SCOTT Edward R.G.R. Evans 1953 Hardcover Near Fine
By: Evans, Edward R.G.R. (Admiral Lord Mountevans)
Price $4.99 ~ Regular $19.95, You Save $14.96 (75%)
- Item # PL6703A-960
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE FOURTH WORLD: THE HERITAGE OF THE ARCTIC AND ITS DESTRUCTION Sam Hall 1987 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine 2 Copies Available
By: Hall, Sam
Price $1.49 ~ Regular $17.95, You Save $16.46 (92%)
- Item # PL90A-9582
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
SOUTH POLE 900 MILES ON FOOT Wood and Jamieson 1996 Paperback Fine INSCRIBED by Gareth Wood
By: Wood, Gareth and Eric Jamieson
Price $7.99 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $22.01 (73%)
- Item # PL228-960
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
NO LATITUDE FOR ERROR Edmund Hillary 1961 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Fine (Not Signed)
By: Hillary, Edmund
Price $35.00 ~ Regular $69.95, You Save $34.95 (50%)
- Item # OP57-950
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE ANTARCTIC CHALLENGED Admiral Lord Mountevans 1956 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Very Good
By: Mountevans, Admiral Lord
Price $4.99
- Item # PL6297-960
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
POLAR ATTACK, FROM CANADA TO THE NORTH POLE AND BACK Weber and Malakhov 1996 1st ed Hardcover Fine
By: Weber, Richard and Mikhail Malakhov
Price $12.50 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $17.50 (58%)
- Item # PL222-960
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ANTARCTICA: BEAUTY IN THE EXTREME Jonathan Chester 1991 1st ed Hardcover New
By: Chester, Jonathan
Price $19.99 ~ Regular $55.00, You Save $35.01 (64%)
- Item # PL4332-960p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
GREAT EXPLORATION HOAXES David Roberts 1982 1st ed Hardcover No DJ Fine
By: Roberts, David
Price $7.99 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $12.01 (60%)
- Item # OP236B-958
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
EMPIRE OF ICE AND STONE: THE DISASTROUS AND HEROIC VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK Buddy Levy 2022 1st ed Hardcover DJ New Multiple copies available
By: Levy, Buddy
Price $24.99 ~ Regular $29.99, You Save $5.00 (17%)
- Item # PL4718-9352
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart