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ARCTIC
High Arctic: Greenland & Canada
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/HQ11841. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 5 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXARC296) |
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The Arctic, A Guide to Coastal Wildlife
• Tony Soper
FIELD GUIDE •
2012 •
PAPER
• 160 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 a glossary of snow and ice.
(ARC85, $23.99) |
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A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic
• E.C. Pielou
NATURAL HISTORY •
1994 •
PAPER
• 327 PAGES
A well written primer on Arctic climate, geography, plants, birds, mammals and insects in a single nicely written book. It's a highly recommended, enthusiastic guide to natural history throughout the North -- a good first choice for even the keenest naturalist. With line drawings, charts, and maps.
(ARC03, $22.00) |
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The Last Gentleman Adventurer
• Edward Beauclerk Maurice
• Lawrence Millman
EXPLORATION •
2006 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
Maurice's poignant tale of coming-of-age with the Hudson Bay Company in the Canadian Arctic in the 1930s. Posted to Pangnirtung as a remarkably unlikely 17-year-old recruit, Maurice grew into a man with the fur traders and Inuit of Baffin Island, earning the name of Issumatak (One Who Thinks). The memoir, written 50 years after the fact, shows both immediacy and the wisdom of age. Maurice died at 90 in 2003, just as the book was being readied.
(ARC173, $14.95) |
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Arctic Dreams
• Barry Lopez
NATURAL HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 417 PAGES
• FAVORITE
One of the best books we've read on any destination, this celebrated meditation on the Arctic draws on Lopez's travels throughout the North, including Baffin Island, Siberia and Greenland. A dazzling writer and compassionate observer, Lopez weaves biology and history into his storytelling, including extended chapters on the polar bear and narwhal.
(ARC11, $16.00) |
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Circumpolar North / Greenland Map
• ITMB
2009 •
MAP
This revised full-color, folded map of Greenland at a scale of 900,000 (with index, shaded coastal relief and travel notes) includes on the reverse the stunning North Circumpolar Region Map, published by the Natural Resources Canada. Showing all the land above 60 degrees north, this striking map also shows limits of polar sea ice, position of the magnetic North Pole and bathymetry of the Arctic basin. Two Sides. 39x27 inches.
(ARC111, $12.95) |
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Also Recommended
Nunavut Map
• International Travel Maps
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A regional traveler's map at a scale of 1:1,85 million with good topographic relief, showing roads, physical features and nature preserves.
(CND328, $12.95)
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The Basic Book of Sea Kayaking
• Derek C. Hutchinson
• GUIDEBOOK
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A brief guide to the fundamentals of sea kayaking by a leading authority, equally useful for the beginner and as a review for experienced paddlers. With 50 color illustrations.
(OCE54, $9.95)
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What We Know About Climate Change
• Kerry Emanuel
• REFERENCE
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With the power of a polished lecturer, Emanuel outlines the issues, causes and concerns about the fate of our climate.
(GEO46, $14.95)
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A History of Arctic Exploration
• Juha Nurminen
• EXPLORATION
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The ancient Inuit, Vikings, Vitus Bering, whalers, explorers and James Cook are all paid tribute in this sumptuously illustrated history, drawing on the collections of Helsinki's Nurminen Foundation.
(ARC257, $60.00)
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Baffin Island
• Al Lee
• EXPLORATION
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Photographer and mountaineer Alastair Lee reveals Baffin Island's astonishing landscapes with panoramic photos, accompanied by individual accounts from each member of the eight-man expedition team to Mount Asgard.
(ARC303, $40.00)
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Inuit Art, An Introduction
• Ingo Hessel
• Dieter Hessel
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A history, survey and guide to appreciating Inuit drawings, prints, textiles and sculpture with 125 color photographs.
(ARC142, $45.00)
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The Voyage of the Narwhal
• Andrea Barrett
• EXPLORATION
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A gripping work of historical imagination in the form of a 19th-century account of Arctic exploration. It's Barrett's evocative tale of a Philadelphia naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells who sets out on a foolhardy mission in search of the Franklin Expedition in the Canadian Arctic.
(ARC40, $14.95)
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The Ice Finders, How a Poet, a Professor and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
• Edmund Blair Bolles
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A wonderfully eccentric history of 19th-century science, focusing on three personalities and their ideas about the role of ice in Earth's history. Each contributed to the Victorian debate among scientists, explorers and the man on the street about the nature of the polar regions.
(ARC78, $17.95)
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The Last Imaginary Place
• Robert McGhee
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, McGhee combines a lifetime of field work, ethnography and travel in this illuminating account of the human history of the Arctic.
(ARC164, $18.00)
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The Magnetic North
• Sara Wheeler
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Wheeler writes with zest and insight of the people, nature and future of the Circumpolar North in these many marvelously recounted adventures, including her time in Spitsbergen.
(ARC250, $15.00)
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The Snow Tourist, A Search for the World's Purest, Deepest Snowfall
• Charlie English
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• NEW
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Combining on-the-slopes experience with off-trail research, English follows in the footsteps of the Romantic poets across the Alps, learns how to build igloos with the Inuit on Baffin Island, examines snow-patches in the Cairngorms to detect signs of global warming, and tests his mettle on some of the most perilous peaks on Earth.
(CON54, $15.95)
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This Cold Heaven
• Gretel Ehrlich
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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Ehrlich spent seven seasons in Greenland, mostly alone, traveling by boat, helicopter, plane and dogsled. This exhilarating book reflects her insight, knowledge and deep appreciation of the people and barren landscapes of the north.
(ARC107, $18.95)
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Arctic Kingdom, Life at the Edge
• National Geographic Society
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Filmed in the Canadian arctic, this breathtaking entry in Nat Geo's Last Great Places series stars polar bears, ringed seals, arctic foxes bowhead and beluga whales, narwhals and other Arctic wildlife. Narrated by James Coburn.
(ARC284, $19.95)
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Masters of the Arctic Ice
• National Geographic Society
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This spectacular one-hour documentary, filmed using the National Geographic Crittercam, features the ringed seals and polar bears of Prudhoe Bay and narwhals around Baffin Island.
(ARC211, $19.98)
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Polar Obsession
• Paul Nicklen
• NATURAL HISTORY
• NEW
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Born and raised on Baffin Island, Nicklen has ice in his blood. The National Geographic photographer, wildlife biologist and naturalist presents up-close portraits of the creatures of the high latitudes in 150 dazzling photographs of swimming bears, cavorting seals, penguins, dueling narwhals and all manner of polar life.
(ANT305, $50.00)
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Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
• Mark Carwardine
• FIELD GUIDE
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In the trademark, graphic Eyewitness style, this sturdy guidebook colorfully describes the world's cetaceans with numerous illustrations, range maps, fluke drawings and a few paragraphs on each species.
(FG02, $20.00)
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