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A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic

by E.C. Pielou

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 1994
• PAPER
• 327 PAGES

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)

Arctic Dreams

by Barry Lopez

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2001
• PAPER
• 417 PAGES
• FAVORITE

A dazzling meditation on the Arctic, breathtaking in scope. Lopez draws on his travels throughout the North, including Baffin Island, the Chukchi and Bering seas, Alaska, the Yukon and Greenland, interweaving natural history, accounts of early exploration, anecdote and lore into an indelible portrait of place. (ARC11, $16.00)

The Last Imaginary Place

by Robert McGhee

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2007
• PAPER
• 296 PAGES

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)

Circumpolar North / Greenland Map

by ITMB

• 2009
• MAP

With the North Circumpolar region on one side, including Iceland, and a detailed map of Greenland on the other. (ARC111, $12.95)

 

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Nunavut Map

by International Travel Maps

• 2009
• MAP

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)

What We Know About Climate Change

by Kerry Emanuel

• REFERENCE
• 2012
• HARD COVER
• 85 PAGES

With the power of a polished lecturer, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel outlines the issues, causes and concerns about the fate of our climate, updated for this second edition to cover the latest from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and unfortunate lack of political and popular will in the United States to tackle this vexing issue. (GEO46, $14.95)

The Future History of the Arctic

by Charles Emmerson

• HISTORY
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 448 PAGES

In awe of the Arctic, fascinated with the place since he was a kid, British economic analyst and geopolitical expert Charles Emmerson challenges romantic notions of the remote Arctic. Home to the Russian nuclear fleet, Murmansk, he reminds us, has 340,000 inhabitants. With a focus on the increasing importance of the region, he deftly tackles sovereignty, shipping, nature and resources of the Arctic in just over 300 absorbing pages. With notes and photographs. (ARC256, $28.95)

The Scramble for the Arctic

by Richard Sale

• HISTORY
• 2009
• HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES

Sales and co-author Eugene Potapov focus on the history of Arctic exploitation, legal status and future of the region in this compact survey. (ARC240, $24.95)

Who Owns the Arctic?, Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North

by Michael Byers

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 179 PAGES

Who actually controls the Northwest Passage? Who owns the trillions of dollars of oil and gas beneath the Arctic Ocean? A leading Arctic expert and international lawyer, Byers clearly and concisely explains the sometimes contradictory rules governing the division and protection of the Arctic in this timely little primer. (ARC276, $17.95)

A History of Arctic Exploration

by Juha Nurminen

• EXPLORATION
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 349 PAGES

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)

Across the Top of the World

by James P. Delgado

• EXPLORATION
• 2009
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this richly illustrated history by James Delgado covers the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage, from the disaster of the Franklin Expedition, to the triumph of Roald Amundsen, all the way up to present-day research. (ARC61, $19.95)

Arctic Labyrinth, The Quest for the Northwest Passage

by Glyn Williams

• EXPLORATION
• 2011
• PAPER
• 464 PAGES

Drawing on letters, archives and explorer accounts, Williams charts the full sweep of the history of discovery and the quest for the Northwest Passage. (ARC254, $24.95)

Ghosts of Cape Sabine, The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition

by Leonard F. Guttridge

• EXPLORATION
• 2000
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Abandoned to their fate, all but six of the 25 men of the Greely Expedition died before their much-delayed rescue at "Starvation Camp" on Pym Island in the Canadian Arctic in 1883. (ARC71, $26.95)

The Gates of Hell, Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage

by Andrew Lambert

• EXPLORATION
• 2010
• PAPER
• 428 PAGES

In this re-examination of the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage, Lambert shows the savvy, stamina and navigational acumen of the great explorer. (ARC249, $22.00)

The Man Who Ate His Boots

by Anthony Brandt

• EXPLORATION
• 2011
• PAPER
• 448 PAGES

The enthralling tale of the adventurers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage, holy grail of 19th-century British exploration. (ARC246, $16.95)

The Voyage of the Narwhal

by Andrea Barrett

• EXPLORATION
• 1999
• PAPER
• 416 PAGES

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)

The Magnetic North

by Sara Wheeler

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2012
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

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)

Tikta'liktak, An Inuit-Eskimo Legend

by James Houston

• LITERATURE
• 1991
• PAPER
• 63 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Houston's much loved retelling of the adventures of a young Inuit hunter, Tikta'liktak, set adrift on an ice floe. (ARC140, $11.00)

After the Ice

by Alun Anderson

• SCIENCE
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 298 PAGES

Anderson includes his travels, often by ship, and interviews with dozens of researchers and local leaders from Greenland to Siberia for this sharp report on the people, politics and impact of climatic change at the top of the world. (ARC263, $26.99)

Arctic Eden

by Jerry Kobalenko

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES

Kobalenko's dramatic photographs capture the grandeur and stark beauty of the High Arctic in this illustrated tale of epic ski expeditions in places including Ellesmere Island, Grise Fiord, Alexandra Fiord and remote NW Greenland. (ARC269, $40.00)

Cold, Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

by Bill Streever

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

From avalanches to glaciers, seals to snowflakes, Shackleton to hibernating bears and the history of the search for Absolute Zero, Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography and ecology in a year-long search for the meaning of cold. (ARC242, $14.99)

Islands of the Arctic

by Julian Dowdeswell | Michael Hambrey

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2002
• HARD COVER
• 280 PAGES

A beautifully illustrated, authoritative overview of the physical geography of the Arctic, especially the role of glaciers and ice in shaping the land and history of northern islands across the Arctic from the Canadian Archipelago, Greenland and Svalbard to the Russian Arctic. (ARC122, $65.00)

On Thin Ice, The Changing World of the Polar Bear

by Richard Ellis

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 416 PAGES

Ellis spins tales of natural history, conservation and lore in this beautifully illustrated ode to the polar bear and life in the circumpolar north. (ARC244, $18.95)

Planet Arctic

by Wayne Lynch

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2012
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

Expedition leader, photographer and colleague, Wayne Lynch presents the "large and legendary" musk oxen and bear, tundra plants, birds, mammals and, of course, polar bears and other marine creatures of the sea ice in this portfolio of 150 striking full-page color photos. (ARC268, $29.95)

Polar Obsession

by Paul Nicklen

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2009
• HARD COVER
• 240 PAGES
• NEW

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)

The Big Thaw, Adventures in the Vanishing Arctic

by Ed Struzik

• SCIENCE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 278 PAGES

Struzik repoorts on cutting edge climate research across Arctic North America, ranging from the Yukon to Beaufort Sea, Baffin, Hudson Bay and Halifax. (ARC302, $18.95)

The Fate of Greenland

by Philip Conkling

• SCIENCE
• 2011
• HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES

Both a sumptuous portrait of a remarkable place and an up-to-date overview of research into climate change, this gorgeously illustrated book brings together essays by leading geoscientists and oceanographers. (ARC285, $29.95)

The Great White Bear

by Kieran Mulvaney

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2011
• HARD COVER
• 251 PAGES

A journalist with an affinity for the wild (he once lived on the shores of Cook Inlet), Mulvaney combines natural and human history, myth and eyewitness reports from Barrow, Churchill and other locales, for this astute chronicle. (ARC267, $26.00)

To the Arctic

by Florian Schulz

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2011
• HARD COVER
• 204 PAGES

From aerial photographs of the tundra in summer to stark winter landscapes and underwater images, Shultz showcases the cycle of an Arctic year in 160 color photographs in this sumptuous book, a companion to the 2012 IMAX film. (ARC273, $45.00)

The Northwest Passage

by Tony Soper

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2012
• HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES

Soper draws on his many years exploring polar regions for this illustrated natural history, covering both exploration and wildlife with aplomb. (ARC312, $23.99)

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