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	An African in Greenland • Tete-Michel Kpomassie • James Kirkup • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A memorable account of the odyssey of West African author from his home in Togo to Paris, Denmark and, ultimately, Greenland. (ARC110, $14.95)
	Agassiz, A Novel in Stories • Sandra Birdsell • R.W. Scholes • LITERATURE • Several generations of the Lafreniere family set in the fictional town of Agassiz in Manitoba. (CND55, $14.95)
	Ancient Mariner, The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece • Ken McGoogan • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • McGoogan tells the adventurous 18th-century story of Samuel Hearne, the first European to write about the Arctic -- and maybe the inspiration for Coleridge's classic poem. (ARC166, $14.95)
	Ancient People of the Arctic • Robert McGhee • ARCHAEOLOGY • In this nicely illustrated overview of the Paleo-Eskimos, Robert McGhee, an archaeologist, brings vibrantly to life North America's first settlers and their culture. (ARC163, $32.95)
	Arctic Adventure, My Life in the Frozen North • Peter Freuchen • Gretel Ehrlich • EXPLORATION • OUT OF PRINT • A marvelous account of life in remote northwest Greenland, originally published in 1935. Freuchen ran a trading post at Thule with Knud Rasmussen. (ARC133, $17.95)
	Arctic Discoveries, Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North • John R. Bockstoce • EXPLORATION • This handsome collection of 100 color photographs documents people and places in throughout the circumpolar north. (ARC154, $29.95)
	Arctic Spectacles, The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875 • Russell A. Potter • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Drawing on letters, diaries, cartoons, and sketches, as well as ephemera such as newspaper advertisements, playbills, and program booklets, Potter shows how representations of the Arctic expressed the fascination, dread, and wonder of the region to 19th-century Britain and America. (ARC199, $35.00)
	Arctic Superstars • William Putnam • EXPLORATION • An American Alpine Club centennial celebration of Adolphus Greely and George Melville. (ARC144, $19.95)
	Arctic Wildlife Nature Activity Book • James Kavanagh • NATURAL HISTORY • An informative and entertaining book of games, facts and quizzes about animals and natural history for kids, published by the Pocket Naturalist series. (ARC171, $6.95)
	The Arctic, A Guide to Coastal Wildlife • Tony Soper • Dan Powell • FIELD GUIDE • A compact guide to coastal marine mammals and seabirds of the Circumpolar North, featuring handsome watercolor illustrations and lively text. (ARC85, $21.95)
	Aurora • Candace Savage • SCIENCE • Savage unveils the mystery, myth and science of the Northern Lights in stunning color celestial photographs, drawings and essays. (ARC106, $19.95)
	Aurora: The Northern Lights in Mythology, History and Science • Torbjorn Lovgren • Harald Falck Ytter • SCIENCE • OUT OF PRINT • An account of the history, folklore and science of the Northern Lights. (ARC105, $19.95)
	Bear Attacks, Their Causes and Avoidance • Stephen Herrero • NATURAL HISTORY • Despite its frightening title, this book is a helpful introduction to the natural history and behavior of the bear by a long-term researcher in the field. With useful tips on "avoidance." (BST21, $16.95)
	Being Caribou, Five Months on Foot With an Arctic Herd • Karsten Heuer • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAMILY • Heuer's account of a season with the migrating caribou of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (ALA229, $24.95)
	The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife • Christopher W. Leahy • Gordon Morrison • NATURAL HISTORY • A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching. (NAM21, $19.95)
	Bradt Guide Faroe Islands • James Proctor • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to the North Atlantic islands, essential for anyone contemplating an extended visit. With islands maps, city plans, and detailed information on what to do and where to go throughout the archipelago. (ARC156, $25.99)
	By Airship to the North Pole, An Archaeology of Human Exploration • P.J. Capelotti • EXPLORATION • A history of Salomon Andree, Charles Wellman and the first attempts to reach the North Pole by airship. This book includes a detailed archaeological analysis of the aerial polar base camps in Spitsbergen. (ARC68, $26.00)
	Call of the North, An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole • Andre Malaurie • EXPLORATION • A handsome, oversize memoir and celebration of the Inuit by the French polar explorer (Last Kings of Thule), featuring 300 of Malaurie's color photographs spanning 50 years in the Arctic. Malaurie became the first Frenchman to reach the Pole by dogsled in 1951. (ARC109, $60.00)
	Canada Map • Map Art Maps • A folded, color map of all Canada at a scale of 1:4,500,000. It's better than most, and at an unbeatable price. (CND15, $4.95)
	Canada: A People's History, Volume 1 • Don Gillmor • Pierre Turgeon • HISTORY • An illustrated history of Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective. (CND160, $60.00)
	Canada: A People's History, Volume 2 • Don Gillmor • Pierre Turgeon • HISTORY • An illustrated history of Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective. (CND161, $60.00)
	Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths • R.I. Page • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of recently translated Viking writings. (VIK16, $29.95)
	Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe • Glynis Ridley • HISTORY • The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state. (FRN536, $12.00)
	The Coldest Crucible, Arctic Exploration and American Culture • Michael F. Robinson • EXPLORATION • A cultural history of the emblematic voyages, often military, of Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Hall, Adolphus Greely, Walter Wellman, Robert Peary, Frederick Cook and other 19th-century American adventurers. (ARC189, $39.00)
	Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond • HISTORY • Diamond tackles nothing less than the history and fate of civilization in this compelling book in which he offers case studies, present and past, of societies that work and societies that do not, devoting 100 carefully reasoned pages, for example, to the fate of the Norse settlements in Greenland (climatic change, Inuit) and another big section on Easter Island (deforestation, hubris). (GEN324, $18.00)
	Coming into the Country • John McPhee • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE • McPhee's lyrical portrait of frontier life and some unforgettable Alaskan characters captures the spirit of the place like no other. (ALA04, $17.00)
	Cook and Peary, The Polar Controversy Resolved • Robert M. Bryce • EXPLORATION • A massive and massively detailed book, the most thorough examination yet of Peary and Cook's competing claims to have been the first-ever at the North Pole. (ARC44, $50.00)
	A Death on the Barrens • George Bird Grinnell • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A 1955 canoe trip through the Canadian Arctic leads the author and five other men on a journey rife with perils, including food shortages, record low temperatures and a tumble over a waterfall that proves fatal for the group leader. (CND259, $19.00)
	Denmark Map • Freytag & Berndt • 1:400,000 scale map of Denmark (SCN15, $12.95)
	Disaster at the Pole, The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole • Wilbur Cross • EXPLORATION • A thrilling account of the crash of the airship Italia in 1928 and the political aftermath in an increasingly fascist Europe. (ARC84, $24.95)
	The Discovery of Global Warming • Spencer Weart • SCIENCE • A cool-headed analysis and history of our current understanding of planetary weather. (SCI66, $16.95)
	The Discovery of Slowness • Sten Nadolny • Ralph Freedman • LITERATURE • An inventive fictional biography of the 19th century polar explorer Sir John Franklin (also governor of Tasmania), who disappeared on a voyage to the Canadian Arctic. (ARC59, $16.95)
	Distant Shores, The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent • Constance Martin • Rockwell Kent • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A striking collection of work by the great American illustrator and adventurer. (ART34, $24.95)
	Drawing Shadows to Stone • Laurel Kendall • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • Featuring 83 photographs, this book is a record of the 1897 American Museum of Natural History expedition to Alaska and Siberia under Franz Boas. It illuminates the anthropology of peoples on both sides of Bering Strait. (ARC34, $22.50)
	Driving to Greenland • Peter Stark • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT • Stark is an adventurous, entertaining writer -- whether he's at the precipice of the monster ski jump in Iron Mountain, Michigan, squeezed into a kayak with the local Greenlanders or on the road in Iceland. (ARC69, $14.95)
	Encyclopedia of the Arctic • Mark Nuttall • REFERENCE • This landmark reference, published in a three-volume set, covers the Arctic environment, its wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more with great authority and panache. 305 maps. (ARC221, $650.00)
	The Ends of the Earth, An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic • Francis Spufford • Elizabeth Kolbert • LITERATURE • A handsome edition of the best polar writing, north and south, including classic accounts of exploration, fiction, science writing and essays. (ANT264, $29.95)
	The Eskimos • Ernest S. Burch, Jr. • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A beautifully illustrated, authoritative portrait of diverse peoples, cultures and landscapes of the circumpolar north with a focus on the Eskimo peoples of Alaska. (ARC165, $19.95)
	Extremes, Surviving the World's Harshest Environments • Nick Middleton • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In this latest journey to impossible places, British geographer Middleton learns how to survive with nomadic peoples in Greenland, the Congo, Niger and Papua New Guinea. (TVL65, $24.95)
	Far Afield • Susanna Kaysen • LITERATURE • This charming novel about a social anthropologist off on a grant to study the residents of the Faroes wonderfully evokes the people, culture and windswept landscapes of the islands. (ICL08, $14.00)
	Farthest North, A History of North Polar Exploration in Eyewitness Accounts • Clive Holland • EXPLORATION • An anthology of eyewitness accounts, this book excerpts the memoirs and adventure tales of Peary, Franklin, de Long, Nansen and other great polar explorers in search of the North Pole. (ARC55, $12.95)
	Fatal Passage, The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot • Ken McGoogan • EXPLORATION • A compelling biography of the Scottish explorer who pioneered Inuit methods, completed the Northwest Passage and found Franklin. (ARC118, $14.00)
	A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife: Marine Mammals, Seabirds, Fish and Other Sea Life • Noble S. Proctor • Patrick J. Lynch • FIELD GUIDE • A comprehensive pocket guide to commonly encountered marine mammals, seabirds and other marine life of Northeastern North America, from North Carolina to Newfoundland and the Canadian Maritimes. (NAM24, $19.95)
	The First Crossing of Greenland • Fridtjof Nansen • EXPLORATION • Nansen's account of his 1888 Greenland journey by ski and sledge with five companions, the first successful expedition across the Greenland icecap. (ARC132, $19.95)
	The Flight of the Red Knot • Brian Harrington • NATURAL HISTORY • The tale of the annual migration of a sandpier 18,000 miles between Brazil and Hudson Bay. (GEN67, $29.95)
	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)
	Frost on My Moustache, The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer • Tim Moore • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In this inspired folly, a British comic heads to Iceland, Spitsbergen and other northern locales in pursuit of a fictitious Arctic hero. (ARC74, $13.95)
	Frozen Earth, The Once and Future Story of the Ice Ages • Doug Macdougall • SCIENCE • An balanced history of the ice ages and climatology (SCI76, $16.95)
	The Frozen Echo, Greenland and the Exploration of North America, 1000-1500 • Kirsten Seaver • HISTORY • A scholarly account of Norse settlements in Greenland and Canada -- the best analysis of the subject to be published in decades. (ARC76, $29.95)
	Frozen in Time, The Fate of the Franklin Expedition • Owen Beattie • John Geiger • EXPLORATION • An exhaustive examination of the evidence surrounding the disappearance of the Franklin Expedition. Beattie and Geiger, a forensic anthropologist and historian, build a credible tale of the disappearance of the expedition. (ARC81, $22.95)
	The Future of Ice, A Journey into Cold • Gretel Ehrlich • EXPLORATION • The marvelous Ehrlich (This Cold Heaven) continues her fascination with out-of-the-way places with this account of journeys to the ends of the earth, including chapters set in Patagonia and Spitsbergen. The book is not so much about place as the experience of cold. (ANT215, $13.95)
	Glaciers • Michael Hambrey • SCIENCE • This lively, illustrated overview of glaciers and glacial phenomena from Scandinavia to Alaska, Antarctica and Central Park features 200 color photographs and expert commentary. (GEO03, $85.00)
	The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral • Robert A. Scott • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs. (EUR190, $17.95)
	Great North, Celebrating Man, Animal, and Landscape at the Top of the World • Martin Dignard • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A dazzling portrait of the wildlife, landscapes and cultures of the circumpolar north, originally presented in IMAX theaters. At the heart of the film are the caribou herds of the Inuktitut of northern Quebec. 41 minutes. (ARC152, $19.99)
	H.W. Tilman, The Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books • H. W. Tilman • EXPLORATION • An omnibus featuring Tilman's adventures aboard the Mischief, his base for exploring the mountains of the Southern Ocean archipelagos, Patagonia and the Arctic; a wry, cantankerous and entertaining writer. (EXP13, $38.00)
	Handbook of North American Indians: Arctic • David Damas • REFERENCE • An encyclopedia of the culture, art, ceremony and history of the native peoples of the Arctic. (ARC15, $52.00)
	Here Is Where We Meet • John Berger • LITERATURE • This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow. (EUR189, $14.00)
	High Latitudes, An Arctic Journey • Farley Mowat • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A chronicle of Mowat's hopscotch across the Canadian Arctic in 1966 on behalf of the Canadian government. In high spirits, Mowat encounters and interviews an eccentric cast of characters throughout the north. (ARC141, $15.95)
	Holman, Forty Years of Graphic Art • Darlene Coward Wight • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An exhibition catalog from the Winnepeg Art Gallery. (ARC120, $25.00)
	The Horizontal Everest, Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island • Jerry Kobalenko • EXPLORATION • OUT OF PRINT • A warm tribute to a very remote, cold place. Kobalenko combines tales of personal adventure, history and rumination with a handsome collection of photographs. (ARC115, $15.00)
	Ice Ages, Solving the Mystery • Katherine Palmer Imbrie • John Imbrie • NATURAL HISTORY • An examination of the geologic evidence explaining the Earth's ice ages, written for a general audience. (GEO17, $23.00)
	The Ice Chronicles, The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change • Paul Andrew Mayewski • Frank White • Lynn Margulis • NATURAL HISTORY • A history of the Greenland Ice Sheet drilling project, started in 1998 to help measure global climate change throughout history. (SCI70, $19.95)
	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)
	Ice Station Zebra • John Sturges • MYSTERY • A gripping cold war thriller starring Rock Hudson and Ernest Borgnine and featuring a mad dash for the North Pole. (ARC179, $14.97)
	Ice, The Nature, The History, And The Uses Of This Astonishing Substance • Mariana Gosnell • SCIENCE • A thorough, engaging read about the incredibly versatile stuff that has had a fundamental effect on history, science and everyday life. (SCI103, $30.00)
	The Idea of North • Peter Davidson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A meditation on the concept of "northerly places," which draws upon famous writings, mythology, films and visual art to create a dynamic portrait of life in cold northern lands. (ARC159, $27.00)
	The Illustrated History of Canada • Craig Brown • HISTORY • A good, nicely illustrated history of Canada, featuring contributions by six Canadian historians, along with hundreds of engravings, maps, photographs and illustrations. (CND19, $32.95)
	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)
	Insight Guide Canada • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • An illustrated guide to Canada with essays on history, culture and nature. (CND42, $23.95)
	Insight Illustrated Dream Cruises of the World • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • (GEN436, $29.95)
	Inuit Art, An Introduction • Ingo Hessel • Dieter Hessel • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A history, survey and guide to appreciating Inuit drawings, prints, textiles and sculpture with 125 color photographs. (ARC142, $35.00)
	Islands of Fate • Fred Bruemmer • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Bruemmer celebrates 25 favorite islands scattered across the globe, including both Arctic (his accustomed haunt) and equatorial, in this history and travelogue. With maps and a few photographs. (TVL126, $38.00)
	The Karluk's Last Voyage • Capt. Robert Bartlett • EXPLORATION • A personal account Karluk expedition by its captain (ARC129, $18.95)
	Lapland, A Natural History • Derek Ratcliffe • NATURAL HISTORY • An authoritative, indispensable overview of the birds, plants, habitats and wildlife of the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia. (ARC182, $65.00)
	Last Places, A Journey in the North • Lawrence Millman • Paul Theroux • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Millman explores the culture and history of the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland in this often-hilarious account of his travels in the wake of the ancient Vikings. (ARC54, $13.00)
	The Last Spike, The Great Railway, 1881-1885 • Pierre Berton • HISTORY • Part two in Berton's exhilarating narrative of the boldest project in Canadian history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. (CND179, $24.95)
	The Last Voyage of the Karluk, A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster • William McKinlay • EXPLORATION • An eyewitness account of losing the ship and the harrowing events surrounding the camp on Wrangel Island. (ARC131, $12.95)
	Light at the Edge of the World • Wade Davis • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic Davis surveys the global diversity of peoples and cultures in this meditative account of travels from the Arctic to the Amazon to Borneo. (WLD34, $16.95)
	The Little Ice Age, How Climate Made History 1300-1850 • Brian Fagan • SCIENCE • A delightful and well-documented survey of the impact of medieval cooling on world affairs, including the hardships suffered by the Norse on Greenland. (ARC147, $16.95)
	Lonely Planet Canada • Mark Lightbody • Thomas Huhti • Ryan Ver Berkmoes • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, practical guide to Canada. (CND54, $26.99)
	Lonely Planet Iceland • Deanna Swaney • GUIDEBOOK • A concise guide to Iceland with short essays on history, culture and attractions and plenty of practical travel information. (ICL06, $22.99)
	The Long Exile, A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic • Melaine McGrath • HISTORY • The poignant tale of the fate of the Inuit. (ARC196, $24.95)
	Mammals of Europe • Priscilla Barrett • David W. MacDonald • FIELD GUIDE • Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals. (FG61, $34.95)
	Mammals of North America • Roland W. Kays • Don E. Wilson • FIELD GUIDE • The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico. (NAM11, $19.95)
	Mammals of North America, Temperate and Arctic Regions • Adrian Forsyth • NATURAL HISTORY • A handsome, illustrated reference to the mammals of North America. (NAM02, $29.95)
	Manitoba Map • Rand McNally Maps • A map of the Canadian province of Manitoba at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (CND51, $4.95)
	Marine Mammals of Alaska • Kate Wynne • FIELD GUIDE • Designed for use in the field, this indispensable guide features large color photographs, key information and detailed range maps for all the whales, seals and other marine creatures of Alaska and the Bering Sea across to Russia. (ALA08, $25.00)
	Midnight Sun • Lawrence Osgood • LITERATURE • A novel about the eerie intertwining lives of the people of the town of Poniktuk, a small village on the Beaufort Sea. (ARC170, $16.95)
	Moose • Valerius Geist • Michael H. Francis • NATURAL HISTORY • A natural history and photographic portrait of the moose. (BST56, $21.95)
	My Attainment of the Pole • Frederick A. Cook • Robert Bryce • EXPLORATION • Cook's original, and much disputed, account of his expedition to the North Pole. This edition includes several new assessments of the dispute whether he ever made it to the Pole. (ARC100, $19.95)
	Nanook of the North • Robert J. Flaherty • EXPLORATION • A gorgeously produced DVD of the groundbreaking Nanook of the North, originally released in 1922. (ARC153, $29.95)
	Nansen • Roland Huntford • EXPLORATION • The centerpiece of Huntford's masterful biography of the polar explorer is the gripping account of the drift of the Fram -- and Nansen's epic trek across the ice to Franz Josef Land. (ARC121, $29.95)
	The National Dream, The Great Railway, 1871 to 1881 • Pierre Berton • HISTORY • An exhilarating narrative of the boldest project in Canadian history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. The first of two parts, this book follows the railway from idea to the beginning of construction. (CND178, $24.95)
	National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America • National Geographic • FIELD GUIDE • From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
	A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson • Matthew Henson • S. Allen Counter • EXPLORATION • A handsome edition of Henson's 1912 memoir recounting his polar exploits, and two-decade-long association with Robert Peary. With 50 nicely reproduced period photographs. (ARC113, $14.95)
	Never Cry Wolf • Farley Mowat • LITERATURE • FAVORITE • A laugh-out-loud account of wolf research and government folly set on the barren lands of northern Manitoba. Perfect for teens. (BST34, $12.99)
	No Man's River • Farley Mowat • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A memoir of Mowat's experiences working as a biologist n Manitoba after World War II. (ARC157, $14.95)
	No One Thinks of Greenland • John Griesemer • LITERATURE • The Allies secret WWII army base in Greenland serves as inspiration for this tale of mysterious goings-on during the Korean War. (ARC149, $15.00)
	The Norsemen in the Viking Age • Eric Christiansen • HISTORY • A cultural history of the Norse. (VIK17, $26.95)
	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 North Pole • Robert E. Peary • Robert Bryce • EXPLORATION • A reprint of the original, and much disputed, account of Peary's 1909 journey to the North Pole. Robert Bryce provides the introduction for this new edition, setting the controversy in historical context. (ARC99, $22.95)
	North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo • S. Allen Counter • EXPLORATION • A biography and reconsideration of Matt Henson. (ARC114, $14.95)
	The North Pole, A Narrative History • Anthony Brandt • ANTHOLOGY • Anthony Brandt samples the literature of exploration for this anthology. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into three parts: early exploration; the quest for the Northwest Passage; and North Pole journeys. (ARC155, $15.00)
	North to the Night, A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic • Alvah Simon • EXPLORATION • A well crafted tale of adventures in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland aboard a 36-foot sailing yacht, including most memorably a solo winter frozen in the sea ice off Bylot Island. (ARC97, $14.95)
	North to the Orient • Anne Morrow Lindbergh • EXPLORATION • A classic account of pioneering aviation, this wonderfully written memoir includes adventures in Petropavlovsk and the Russian Far East, Japan and the Yangtze. (ARC36, $12.00)
	The Northern Copper Inuit, A History • Julia Ogina • Richard G. Condon • HISTORY • A vivid history of the Holman region of the Northwest Territories. (ARC119, $34.95)
	The Northern Lights, The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis • Lucy Jago • SCIENCE • The compelling story of Kristian Birkeland, the turn-of-the-century Norwegian scientist who devoted his career to understanding the aurora borealis, this book also covers the science, history, myth and romance of the phenomenon. (ARC104, $14.00)
	Northern Lights: The Science, Myth and Wonder of Aurora Borealis • Calvin Hall • Daryl Pederson • George Bryson • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • An essay and collection of photos of the aurora borealis. (ARC126, $19.95)
	On the Wing, To the Edge of the World with the Peregrine Falcon • Alan Tennant • NATURAL HISTORY • Naturalist Tennant tries to follow Peregrine Falcons along their migratory route to the Arctic and back, using radio-ID tags and flying behind in an old airplane. (WLD46, $25.00)
	One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead • Clare Dudman • LITERATURE • Dudman takes the bare facts of Alfred Wegener's adventurous life and builds an engrossing novel of science and exploration, set in Greenland (where Wegener ultimately died). (ARC148, $14.00)
	The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings • Peter Sawyer • HISTORY • An insightful overview of the Viking Age in Norway and abroad, illustrated throughout and featuring essays by 12 experts. (VIK18, $27.99)
	Paddle to the Arctic • Don Starkell • EXPLORATION • Not simply the story of a man in a kayak, this diary of a 3,000-mile journey from Churchill to Tuktoyaktut captures the challenges of the Northwest Passage. (ARC26, $15.95)
	Pass the Butterworms, Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered • Tim Cahill • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A collection of enertatining travel essays. (WLD01, $13.00)
	Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings • John Haywood • REFERENCE • The history of the Vikings told through a series of innovative maps and excellent photographs. This book traces the route of the 9th-century Viking merchants and explorers throughout Europe and on to the New World. (VIK02, $20.00)
	Polar Bears • Nikita Ovskynikov • NATURAL HISTORY • This illustrated natural history of the polar bear draws on the author's work on Wrangel Island. (ARC57, $17.95)
	Polar Journeys, The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration • Robert Feeney • EXPLORATION • This is the book for anyone who has ever wondered about hoosh, pemmican and all the other makings of the early explorers' diets. The author, a biochemist, looks at the nutrition and diet of explorers, linking developments in food preservation techniques to the history of polar exploration. (ANT107, $27.95)
	The Presence of Whales, Contemporary Writers on the Whale • Frank Stewart • NATURAL HISTORY • In this well chosen series of essays, some of our best modern writers enlighten and entertain on the subject of whales, with pieces from Roger Payne, Diane Ackerman, and Barry Lopez. (BST02, $15.95)
	Prisoners of the North • Pierre Berton • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • In this engaging series of biographies, Berton recounts the lives and adventures of poet Robert Service, gold prospector Joe Boyle and other personalities of the Canadian North. (CND217, $26.00)
	Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary • Rick Steves • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. (EUR142, $9.95)
	The Road Past Altamont • Gabrielle Roy • Joyce Marshall • LITERATURE • Roy depicts a young girl's world through four connected stories that ultimately trace her coming of age. (CND57, $7.95)
	Rowing to Latitude, Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge • Jill Fredston • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An enjoyable account of watery travels along the coasts of Alaska, British Columbia, Labrador, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. It's a lyrical tale of the adventurous life of this husband-and-wife team. (ARC108, $15.00)
	The Royal Physician's Visit • Per Olov Enquist • LITERATURE • Swedish novelist Enquist fleshes out a footnote in Danish history in this story of the Enlightenment-era Danish court, the mad king Christian VII, the ambitious royal doctor and the passionate young queen. (DMK21, $14.00)
	Salamina • Rockwell Kent • LITERATURE • A warm account of adventures in Greenland circa 1931, featuring portraits of the people encountered (including the title heroine) and pen-and-ink illustrations by the sailor, adventurer and illustrator. (ARC143, $22.95)
	Seals and Sea Lions of the World • Nigel Bonner • FIELD GUIDE • An accessible, comprehensive overview of the pinnipeds. With wit and grace, Bonner outlines the evolutionary history, biology and ecology and behavior of seals, sea lions and walruses. (FG05, $35.00)
	Servants of the Map • Andrea Barrett • LITERATURE • Barrett introduces a cast of truth-seekers and explorers in these luminous tales of discovery ranging the map (and centuries) from the Himalayas to Pennsylvania and New York. (WLD30, $13.95)
	Silent Snow, The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic • Marla Cone • NATURAL HISTORY • On a journey intended to investigate the deteriorating Arctic environment, Cone travels across the northern region and makes several surprising discoveries about the dangers of pollution and how toxic chemicals from around the world end up contaminating the Arctic. (ARC181, $14.00)
	Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic • Michael Smith • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The first biography of Sir James Wordie, whose many polar adventures took him from the Heroic Age of Shackleton and Scott to the modern era. (SCT109, $35.00)
	Skyward, Man's Mastery of the Air • Richard E. Byrd • EXPLORATION • Admiral Bryd's chronicle of a life in aviation, originally published in 1928. (ARC87, $14.95)
	The Sledge Patrol, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Victory • David Howarth • HISTORY • An engrossing true-life adventure story of Danish and Norwegian hunters evading Nazi troops across the hostile terrain of Greenland. (ARC112, $16.95)
	Sleeping Island, A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens • R.H. Cockburn • P.G. Downes • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Harvard graduate Downes recounts his solo 1939 canoe adventure through the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North to the then-unmapped Nueltin Lake. He meets Indians and Inuits who remain completely untouched by the world of white men. (CND258, $19.95)
	Smilla's Sense of Snow • Peter Hoeg • LITERATURE • Set in Denmark and Greenland and aboard a secret ship, this page-turner includes an excellent portrait of modern day Copenhagen in its first half. (DMK03, $15.00)
	The Snow Walker • Farley Mowat • LITERATURE • A collection of Arctic tales by the master storyteller and Canadian National Treasure. (ARC160, $19.95)
	Spitsbergen Explorer Map • Ocean Explorer Maps • A detailed map of Svalbard at a scale of 1:1,000,000. With illustrated biographies of explorers and a wildlife guide on the reverse. (ARC88, $11.95)
	Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas • Ronald Wright • HISTORY • A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account. (NAM20, $17.00)
	The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon, Siberian Folk Tales • James Riordan • LITERATURE • A collection of tales from throughout Siberia, divided thematically, and with an excellent introduction by James Riordan. Many of the stories feature the harsh setting of the tundra and importance of the spirit. (SIB12, $11.95)
	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)
	Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo • Henry Rink • ANTHOLOGY • A facsimile edition of a collection of Greenlandic tales with a sketch of "their habits, religion, language and other peculiarities" by the explorer and Danish governor of Southern Greenland, originally published in 1875. With woodcuts and engravings. (ARC184, $12.95)
	The Tenderness of Wolves • Stef Penney • LITERATURE • Penney evocatively sets her Costa Award-winning debut novel -- murder mystery, historical novel and family epic -- in 19th-century Canada's snowy north. (CND293, $25.00)
	This Cold Heaven, Seven Seasons in Greenland • Gretel Ehrlich • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • 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, $14.95)
	The Thrall's Tale • Judith Lindbergh • LITERATURE • Inspired by the Norse sagas, this well-researched historical novel follows the fate of three women at the beginning of the Christian era in Greenland. (ARC174, $15.00)
	To the Ends of the Earth, Adventures of an Expedition Photographer • Gordon Wiltsie • Alex Lowe • EXPLORATION • National Geographic photographer Wiltsie chronicles his inspiring adventures from bouldering as a youth in California's Chalk Bluff cliffs to early climbs in the Himalayas, and expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctic, Patagonia, Mongolia and beyond in this illustrated journal. (ANT242, $35.00)
	To the Top of the Continent • Frederick A. Cook • EXPLORATION • The 90th anniversary edition of the much-debated account by Frederick Cook of his first-ever ascent of Mount McKinley (1903-1906). (ALA83, $19.95)
	Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe • Marybeth Bond • Mary Morris • ANTHOLOGY • Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris. (EUR160, $17.95)
	A Traveller's History of Canada • Robert Bothwell • HISTORY • A readable and admirably concise march through Canadian history from prehistory to today, including a timeline. (CND82, $14.95)
	True North, The Yukon and Northwest Territories • William R. Morrison • HISTORY • An illustrated history of the Yukon and Northwest territories. (CND33, $49.50)
	True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole • Bruce Henderson • EXPLORATION • A brief account the controversy, bitter rivalry and competing claims between Robert Peary and Frederick Cook. (ARC158, $24.95)
	The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future • Richard Alley • SCIENCE • A persuasive, accessible survey of climatic change as revealed through ice core drilling. The author includes enthusiastic tales of his research in Greenland and Antarctica, an overview of how climate works, and his prognostication for the future. (SCI24, $19.95)
	Under Polaris, An Arctic Quest • Tahoe Talbot Washburn • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A record of Arctic living and adventure by a woman who accompanied her husband to the Canadian Arctic. (ARC82, $27.50)
	Uqalurait, An Oral History of Nunavut • John Bennett • Susan Rowley • HISTORY • A history of the people of Nunavut in their own words, drawing on accounts of early exploration, interviews and traditional tales. (ARC169, $75.00)
	The Vikings and America • Eric Wahlgren • HISTORY • An insightful account of the Vikings' discovery and exploration of America, based on archaeology and the ancient sagas. With site diagrams and black-and-white photographs throughout. (VIK12, $18.95)
	Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga • William Fitzhugh • Elisabeth Ward • HISTORY • An extensively illustrated volume of Viking culture, history and exploration that focuses especially on voyages to North America. Published in conjunction with a Smithsonian exhibit, it features essays and 400 color photographs. (VIK11, $34.95)
	Vinland Sagas, Norse Discovery of America • Magnus Magnusson • EXPLORATION • These Icelandic sagas, as edited by the great Magnus Magnusson, tell the compelling story of the Norse discovery of America five centuries before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. (VIK03, $13.00)
	Voyage to the North Star • Peter Nichols • LITERATURE • A novel of Arctic exploration. (ARC56, $16.00)
	Voyages of Delusion, The Quest for the Northwest Passage • Glyn Williams • EXPLORATION • A lively, sophisticated history of the search for the Northwest Passage during the 18th century. (ARC128, $40.00)
	The Whale and the Supercomputer, On the Northern Front of Climate Change • Charles Wohlforth • SCIENCE • Anchorage-based journalist Wohlberg heads out with climatologists and the Inupiat of Alaska's northern slope in this clear-headed report from the field. (ALA204, $14.00)
	White Paradise, Journeys to the North Pole • Francis Latreille • EXPLORATION • From reindeer herders and Inuits to modern-day explorers and travelers, walruses, polar bears and icescapes, this stunning collection of photographs celebrates the Arctic. (ARC192, $40.00)
	White Sky, Black Ice • Stan Jones • MYSTERY • In this first rate murder mystery state trooper Nathan Active returns to Chukchi from Anchorag