ARCTIC EXPLORATION More Books Arctic Crossing, A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture  •  Jonathan Waterman HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 376 PAGES 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. Waterman, who has also written of his sailing and climbing adventures in Alaska, includes a portrait of the Inuit people and villages that he encountered along the route. (ARC98, $16.95)   Arctic Discoveries, Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North  •  John R. Bockstoce EXPLORATION •  2000 •  PAPER  • 122 PAGES This handsome collection of 100 color photographs documents people and places in throughout the circumpolar north. John Bockstoce, an Arctic historian and archaeologist, has been traveling and working in the North since 1962. (ARC154, $29.95)   Arctic Kingdom, Life at the Edge  •  National Geographic Society NATURAL HISTORY •  2009 •  DVD Stalk the Arctic ice with the fiercest predator, the polar bear, as it prowls one of the most forbidding places on the planet: a hidden kingdom of magnificent creatures. Armed with a keen sense of smell and backed up by 1,700 pounds, fur and fangs, the polar bear stands alone at the top of the food chain. Yet many other hunters manage to survive in and around harsh arctic waters from the savvy arctic fox to the massive, whiskered walrus. The Arctic ice is revealed as a place of danger and drama as animals are stranded on frozen waters, trapped between moving sheets of ice, and caught in the struggle to survive. Brave the worst that nature has to offer. (ARC284, $19.95)   Arctic Mission  •  Discovery Channel EXPLORATION •  DVD 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)   Arctic Wildlife Nature Activity Book  •  James Kavanagh NATURAL HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 32 PAGES 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)   Call of the North, An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole  •  Andre Malaurie EXPLORATION •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 336 PAGES A handsome, oversize memoir and celebration of the Inuit by the French polar explorer, featuring 300 of his own color photographs spanning a 50 year career in the Arctic. Maluarie is also the author of the wonderful Last Kings of Thule. Among his many polar accomplishments, he was the first Frenchman to reach the North Pole by dogsled in 1951. (ARC109, $60.00)   The Future of Ice, A Journey into Cold  •  Gretel Ehrlich EXPLORATION •  2005 •  PAPER  • 200 PAGES The marvelous Ehrlich (This Cold Heaven, Seven Seasons in Greenland) continues her fascination with out-of-the-way -- and cold -- places with this impressionistic account of journeys to the ends of the earth, encompassing deserts, tundra and mountains from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Circle. The longest chapters are set in Patagonia and Spitsbergen but the book is not so much about place as the experience of cold. (ANT215, $13.95)   Great Exploration Hoaxes  •  Jan Morris  •  David Roberts EXPLORATION •  2001 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Here is an entertaining read that is back in print after 15 years. David Roberts, a prolific author on exploration, examines the psychology of explorers who may have -- and probably did -- fudge their results, including icons Admiral Byrd and long-suspect Frederick Cook. (EXP09, $19.00)   The Humboldt Current: 19th-Century Exploration and the Sources of American Envionmentalism  •  Aaron Sachs EXPLORATION •  2007 •  PAPER  • 512 PAGES 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. It was Humboldt that inspired Clarence King (first director of the US Geological Survey), J.N Reynolds, the force behind the U.S. Exploring Expedition, polar explorer George Wallace Melville and none other than John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club. (EXP43, $16.00)   The Idea of North  •  Peter Davidson CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2004 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES A meditation on the concept of northerly places, which draws upon the writings of Nabokov, Auden and others, as well as mythology, films and visual art. Davidson explores Nordic Renaisssance winter paintings, German Romantic landscapes, Scandinavian Biedermeyer and 20th-century prints, taking in the work of artists as varied as Andy Goldsworthy, Eric Ravilious and Ian Hamilton Finlay and writers including W. H. Auden, Cecil Day-Lewis and John Buchan. He ends with a consideration of Iceland, called by Auden and McNeice in 1936 as "furthest, most remote, most distant, most northerly." (ARC159, $27.00)   Midnight Sun  •  Lawrence Osgood LITERATURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 300 PAGES 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)   Ninety Degrees North, The Quest for the North Pole  •  Fergus Fleming EXPLORATION •  2003 •  PAPER  • 496 PAGES A thrilling, artfully told chronicle of the mostly 19th-century adventurers, madmen and explorers who quested after the North Pole. A marvelous storyteller, Fergus (who also wrote Barrow's Boys and Killing Dragons) interweaves journal excerpts with his own account of the often fateful exploits of Robert Peary, Frederick Cook. Elisha Kent Kane and other Arctic explorers. Though all the starvation, cold, braggadocio and lies, Fleming communicates with grace, clarity and wit the magnetic attraction of what historian Pierre Berton has called the Arctic Grail. (ARC124, $15.00)   The North Pole, A Narrative History  •  Anthony Brandt ANTHOLOGY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 413 PAGES Anthony Brandt samples the literature of exploration for this anthology in the series by National Geographic. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into three parts: early exploration; the quest for the Northwest Passage; and North Pole journeys. Brandt includes selections by William Scoresby, John Ross, John franklin, Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Francis Hall, Adolphus Greely, Fridjof Nansen, Frederick Cook, Robert Peary and more. Each seledction is 10-20 pages. (ARC155, $15.00)   North to the Night, A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic  •  Alvah Simon EXPLORATION •  1999 •  PAPER  • 328 PAGES 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)   Points Unknown, A Century of Great Exploration  •  David Roberts EXPLORATION •  2000 •  HARD COVER  • 416 PAGES 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 David Roberts. (EXP08, $29.95)   Polar Bears  •  Ian Stirling NATURAL HISTORY •  2011 •  PAPER  • 232 PAGES A tribute to the polar bear by preeminent researcher Ian Stirling and intrepid photographer Dan Guravich, featuring 160 color photographs. It's an excellent combination of outstanding color photography, solid information on natural history and Inuit lore. With chapters on polar bear biology, distribution and abundance, behavior and study, the polar bears of Churchill, environmental concerns and the conflicts between people and bears. (ARC58, $40.00)   Prisoners of the North  •  Pierre Berton BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2005 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES 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)   Silent Snow, The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic  •  Marla Cone NATURAL HISTORY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Eloquently written, Cone's report from the Arctic is a work of both scientific and literary merit. 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)   The Terror, A Novel  •  Dan Simmons LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 771 PAGES Inspired by actual events, Simmons turns the tale of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition and its doomed crew into a suspenseful thriller. (ARC195, $14.99)   Trial by Ice, The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition  •  Richard Parry EXPLORATION •  2002 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES A definitive account of the 1871 Polaris expedition into the Arctic details the conflicts that threatened the journey from its inception, the mysterious death of expedition leader Charles Francis Hall, a veteran Arctic explorer, the disaster that destroyed the Polaris, the ordeal of its survivors, and the killer who got away with murder more than a century ago. (ARC167, $14.00)   True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole  •  Bruce Henderson EXPLORATION •  2006 •  PAPER  • 331 PAGES A brief account the controversy, bitter rivalry and competing claims between Robert Peary and Frederick Cook. By the author of Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, the First US Expedition to the North Pole. (ARC158, $24.95)   Under Polaris, An Arctic Quest  •  Tahoe Talbot Washburn BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1999 •  HARD COVER  • 264 PAGES When her husband ventured to the far north to pursue doctoral fieldwork, Tahoe Washburn decided to accompany him. This lively memoir captures her adventures and daily life in the North. With maps and photographs. (ARC82, $27.50)   The Voyage of the Narwhal  •  Andrea Barrett EXPLORATION •  1999 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES National Book Award-winning author Andrea Barrett once again demonstrates her mastery of historical detail in this latest novel. Her evocative descriptions of the ice, tundra and 19th-century Arctic voyages are effectively tied to a great story: the tale of a Philadelphia naturalist not-coincidentally named Erasmus Darwin Wells who sets out on a foolhardy mission to the Canadian Arctic in search of the lost Franklin Expedition. With maps and illustrations, this could be a memoir instead of a gripping work of historical imagination. (ARC40, $14.95)   White Paradise, Journeys to the North Pole  •  Francis Latreille EXPLORATION •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 232 PAGES A photo-essay on the Arctic, its wildlife, history and culture, published in celebration of the 2007-2008 International Polar Year. (ARC192, $40.00)
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