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Arctic Crossing, A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture
• Jonathan Waterman
• HISTORY
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A riveting account of a 2,200 mile solo journey across the Arctic from Prudhoe Bay to the Gulf of Boothia by kayak, accomplished in stages from 1997-1999.
(ARC98, $16.95)
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Arctic Discoveries, Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North
• John R. Bockstoce
• EXPLORATION
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This handsome collection of 100 color photographs documents people and places in throughout the circumpolar north.
(ARC154, $29.95)
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Arctic Mission
• Discovery Channel
• EXPLORATION
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This 5-disc set includes the voyage of the SEDNA from Montreal to Vancouver across the Northwest Passage and episodes on global warming and its impact on the people and the wildlife of the North.
(ARC215, $19.95)
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Arctic Wildlife Nature Activity Book
• James Kavanagh
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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)
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Call of the North, An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole
• Andre Malaurie
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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The Future of Ice, A Journey into Cold
• Gretel Ehrlich
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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Great Exploration Hoaxes
• Jan Morris
• David Roberts
• EXPLORATION
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The story behind the first-ever claims for the North Pole, Mount McKinley and eight other expeditions that have landed in controversy.
(EXP09, $19.00)
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The Humboldt Current: 19th-Century Exploration and the Sources of American Envionmentalism
• Aaron Sachs
• EXPLORATION
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Aaron Sachs takes on the towering figure of the early 19th-century scientist explorer, Alexander von Humbodt, revered by Darwin and celebrated in Europe and America, to trace the history of American exploration.
(EXP43, $16.00)
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The Ice Museum, In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
• Joanna Kavenna
• SCIENCE
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The enchanting account of travels throughout the North, with chapters on Shetland, Iceland, Estonia, Greenland and Spitsbergen, all proposed as the Thule of the ancient world.
(ARC175, $15.00)
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The Idea of North
• Peter Davidson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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)
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Midnight Sun
• Lawrence Osgood
• LITERATURE
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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)
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National Geographic Expeditions Atlas
• National Geographic
• EXPLORATION
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Drawn from the archives. This illustrated atlas, divided into seven thematic and geographic sections, features many all-new full-color maps and hundreds of illustrations from National Geographic.
(EXP27, $40.00)
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Ninety Degrees North, The Quest for the North Pole
• Fergus Fleming
• EXPLORATION
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A thrilling, artfully told chronicle of the mostly 19th-century adventurers, madmen and explorers who quested after the North Pole.
(ARC124, $15.00)
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No Man's River
• Farley Mowat
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A memoir of Mowat's experiences working as a biologist n Manitoba after World War II.
(ARC157, $14.95)
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The North Pole, A Narrative History
• Anthony Brandt
• ANTHOLOGY
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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)
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North to the Night, A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic
• Alvah Simon
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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Points Unknown, A Century of Great Exploration
• David Roberts
• EXPLORATION
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Luminaries as Sir Ernest Shackleton and Freya Stark bump against modern journalist-adventurers like Eric Newby, Eric Hansen and Tom Wolfe in this anthology of 20th-century exploration. Edited by Outside contributor, author and mountaineer David Roberts.
(EXP08, $29.95)
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Polar Bears
• Ian Stirling
• Dan Guravich
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A tribute to the polar bear by a pre-eminent researcher, this handsome natural history features 150 outstanding color photographs by intrepid wildlife photographer Dan Guravich. Stirling intersperses polar bear biology, distribution, behavior and study with snippets of Inuit legend and hoary tales of fieldwork across the Arctic.
(ARC58, $29.95)
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Prisoners of the North
• Pierre Berton
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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Silent Snow, The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic
• Marla Cone
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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)
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The Terror, A Novel
• Dan Simmons
• LITERATURE
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Inspired by actual events, Simmons turns the tale of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a Gothic thriller.
(ARC195, $14.99)
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Trial by Ice, The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition
• Richard Parry
• EXPLORATION
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(ARC167, $14.00)
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True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole
• Bruce Henderson
• EXPLORATION
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Henderson tackles the bitter rivalry between Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, along with the competing claims, controversy and politics of who first reached the North Pole.
(ARC158, $24.95)
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Under Polaris, An Arctic Quest
• Tahoe Talbot Washburn
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A record of Arctic living and adventure by a woman who accompanied her husband to the Canadian Arctic.
(ARC82, $27.50)
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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, $14.00)
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White Paradise, Journeys to the North Pole
• Francis Latreille
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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