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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $73, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXARC150)		  
Bradt Guide Spitsbergen  •  Andreas Umbreit
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 246 PAGES
This convenient guide features an overview of the history, wildlife and natural history of Spitsbergen along with a few color photographs and many maps. It's a good one-volume introduction to the archipelago, revised with this edition to also include sections on Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen. (NOR01, $26.99)		   Bradt Guide Spitsbergen
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)		   The Arctic, A Guide to Coastal Wildlife
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)		   Arctic Dreams
Spitsbergen Explorer Map  •  Ocean Explorer Maps
2006 •  MAP
A detailed map of Svalbard for the traveler, at a scale of 1:1,000,000, with illustrated biographies of 27 explorers and a brief guide to wildlife on the reverse. Designed and published by intrepid expedition leader and editor Nigel Sitwell. Tony Soper contributed the natural history information. (ARC88, $11.95)		   Spitsbergen Explorer Map



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The Svalbard Archipelago  •  P.J. Capelotti   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A reprint of a WWII-era report on Spitsbergen by U.S. intelligence, covering the geography, history and geo-politics of the archipelago. With 63 photographs, maps, glossary, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, and an index. (ARC91, $49.95)
 		  
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Innocents in the Arctic, The 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition  •  Colin Bull   • EXPLORATION  •  A marvelous account of adventure and scientific inquiry, glaciologist Colin Bull recounts his role in the 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition with humor and humility. Drawn from Bull's field notes, journals and published reports, this book paints a compelling portrait of what it means to be young and daring. (ARC176, $19.95)
 		  
The Ice Balloon  •  Alec Wilkinson   • EXPLORATION  •  New Yorker writer Wilkinson recounts in thrilling detail the ill-fated attempt by Swedish engineer and aeronaut Salomon August Andree to reach the North Pole from Svalbard by balloon in 1897. (ARC289, $25.95)
 		  
A Woman in the Polar Night  •  Christiane Ritter   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Ritter's classic account of living in a hut with her husband on the north coast of Spitsbergen in the 1930s "to read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, to sleep to my heart's content" conveys the radiant beauty and magic of the Arctic. (ARC278, $19.95)
 		  
Ice Bears and Kotick, Rowing on Top of the World  •  Peter Webb   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In Webb's thrilling tale of circumnavigating Spitsbergen in an open rowing boat, he recounts the sheer exhilaration of survival and doing what one loves. This is a story for all those that ever wanted to run away to sea. (ARC262, $17.95)
 		  
The Magnetic North  •  Sara Wheeler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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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Svalbard, A Guide to Plants of the High Arctic  •  Stephen MacLean   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Take it along. The veteran naturalist's slim guide features large color photographs of commonly encountered lichen, buttercups, sandworts, saxifrages and other plants of the tundra. (ARC266, $14.95)
 		  
 
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