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The Arctic, A Guide to Coastal Wildlife
Tony Soper Dan Powell
FIELD GUIDE 2007 PAPER 144 PAGES
A compact, illustrated guide to coastal marine mammals and seabirds of the circumpolar north featuring handsome watercolor illustrations by Dan Powell and lively text on the natural history of each species by intrepid expedition leader and bird-lover Tony Soper. An essential handbook for the ship-based traveler. With a brief overview of history, short chapters on plants and invertebrates, and glossary of snow and ice.
(ARC85, $21.95)
Hell on Ice, The Saga of the Jeanette
Edward Ellsberg
EXPLORATION 2003 HARD COVER 421 PAGES
A dramatic fictionalized account of the fateful 1879 Jeannette expedition to the North Pole, as told through the eyes of chief engineer George Wallace Melville. First published in 1938, the vivid tale was adapted as a radio broadcast by Orson Welles for the Mercury Theater (who famously went on to produce War of the Worlds). This limited edition includes a CD of the memorable radio play. The outspoken Ellsberg, who attained the rank of Rear Admiral, was a noted navy salvage expert, diver, and prolific author.
(ARC138, $27.95)
To the Arctic, The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times
Jeanette Mirsky
EXPLORATION 1997 PAPER 334 PAGES
A classic and wide-ranging narrative of Arctic exploration from the Dutch in Spitsbergen to the Russian Great Northern Expedition, the search for Franklin and the quest for the North Pole, originally published in 1934 and updated in 1970. It includes an excellent chapter on the discovery and exploration of Franz Josef Land.
(ARC31, $17.00)
Polar Bears
Nikita Ovskynikov
NATURAL HISTORY 1998 PAPER 72 PAGES
An illustrated account of polar bears, which draws heavily on the author's research on Wrangel Island.
(ARC57, $17.95)
North Circumpolar Region Rolled Map
Canada Map Office
A bird's-eye view of the Arctic Ocean and all the lands of the far north, at a scale of 1:10,000,000.
(ARC178, $24.95)
The Atlas of Climate Change, Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
Thomas E. Downing
Kirstin Dow
REFERENCE
Fifty innovative color maps illuminate cureent changes in climate, weather, temperature, environmental funding, emissions and a host of related facts as compiled by geographers Kirstin Dow and Thomas Downing.
(REF16, $19.95)
Antler on the Sea, the Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East
Anna Kerttula
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A portrait of the daily life, culture and economy of a typical village along the Chukotka Peninsula, written by an anthropologist who lived there for 18 months.
(RUS100, $22.95)
Bering, The Russian Discovery of America
Orcutt Frost
HISTORY
The first modern biography of the great explorer -- and an excellent account of still little-known regions of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East. The author draws on new evidence to reinvigorate the life and adventures of the seafaring Dane.
(SIB33, $35.00)
The Conquest of a Continent, Siberia and the Russians
W. Bruce Lincoln
HISTORY
The marvelous Lincoln, who wrote widely on Russia, captures the ambition and avarice of fur trappers, Cossacks, military adventurers and the Soviets in this vivid history. It's an absorbing tale, well told and sweeping in scope.
(SIB37, $25.00)
Ada Blackjack
Jennifer Niven
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The incredible story of a failed 1921 mission to colonize Wrangel Island that left four men dead and Ada Blackjack, a young Inuit seamstress, alone in the arctic wilderness for six months.
(ALA196, $14.95)
Farthest North
Fridtjof Nansen
EXPLORATION
A classic account of the voyage of the Fram by the great Norwegian polar explorer Fridjof Nansen, originally published in 1897. Illustrated with maps and photographs, his tale is a compelling adventure.
(ARC60, $17.95)
Historical Atlas of the Arctic
Derek Hayes
EXPLORATION
A handsome collection of 300 striking maps, most in glorious color and many presented here for the first time. Hayes provides captivating, scholarly commentary.
(ARC135, $60.00)
In the Land of White Death, An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
Valerian Albanov
David Roberts
Jon Krakauer
EXPLORATION
A Russian sailor trapped aboard a ship in the ice sets out over the pack for Franz Josef Land.
(SIB16, $14.95)
The Cruise of the Corwin
John Muir
William Frederic Bade
EXPLORATION
An account of an 1881 voyage with Muir and others in search of the Jeanette Expedition, this book is also an eyewitness report of little-known lands including the Chukchi Peninsula, Diomede, Wrangel and Herald islands.
(ALA76, $16.95)
The Franz Josef Land Archipelago, E. B. Baldwin's Journal of the Wellman Polar Expedition, 1898-1899
E.B. Baldwin
P.J. Capelotti
EXPLORATION
The previously unpublished journal of Arctic explorer Evelyn Briggs Baldwin (1862-1933), second in command on the first American expedition to Franz Josef Land.
(ARC146, $49.95)
The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
Jennifer Niven
EXPLORATION
A well-researched and detailed account of the ambitious Canadian Arctic Expedition. Nivens draws on diaries, journals and letters to reconstruct, month by month, the explorers' tragic fate in the Russian Arctic surrounding Wrangel Island.
(ARC130, $14.95)
Where the Sea Breaks its Back
Corey Ford
EXPLORATION
Ford paints a vivid portrait of Georg Steller and his first encounter with the wildlife of the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Alaskan coast in this gripping tale of Bering's 1741 Expedition.
(ALA07, $14.95)
A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic
E.C. Pielou
NATURAL HISTORY
Our best-selling book on the Arctic, this guide covers the geography and climate, plants, birds and wildlife of the circumpolar north.
(ARC03, $22.00)
Islands of the Arctic
Julian Dowdeswell
Michael Hambrey
NATURAL HISTORY
The authors, glaciologists both, use examples from their work in Greenland, Spitsbergen, Russia and the Canadian Arctic in this illustrated survey.
(ARC122, $50.00)
Polar Bears
Ian Stirling
Dan Guravich
NATURAL HISTORY
A tribute to the polar bear by a pre-eminent researcher, this handsome natural history features 150 outstanding color photographs by the intrepid wildlife photographer Dan Guravich. Stirling enriches chapters on polar bear biology, distribution and abundance, behavior and study with snippets of Inuit legend and hoary tales of fieldwork across the Arctic.
(ARC58, $29.95)
Poles Apart
Galen Rowell
NATURAL HISTORY
Noted landscape photographer Galen Rowell turns his attention to the ends of the earth: a gorgeous collection of 188 color photographs with insightful commentary on the story behind each picture.
(ANT27, $39.95)
What We Know About Climate Change
Kerry Emanuel
SCIENCE
With the power of a polished lecturer, Emanuel brilliantly lays out the issues, causes and concern about the fate of our climate in plain language in this illuminating essay, as balanced as it is lucid. This is the book to read.
(GEO46, $14.95)
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