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An African in Greenland
• Tete-Michel Kpomassie
• James Kirkup
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A memorable account of the odyssey of West African author from his home in Togo to Paris, Denmark and, ultimately, Greenland.
(ARC110, $14.95)
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Bradt Guide Faroe Islands
• James Proctor
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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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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Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths
• R.I. Page
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A collection of recently translated Viking writings.
(VIK16, $29.95)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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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)
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Denmark Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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1:400,000 scale map of Denmark
(SCN15, $12.95)
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Distant Shores, The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent
• Constance Martin
• Rockwell Kent
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A striking collection of work by the great American illustrator and adventurer.
(ART34, $24.95)
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The Eskimos
• Ernest S. Burch, Jr.
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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)
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Extremes, Surviving the World's Harshest Environments
• Nick Middleton
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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Glacier Ice
• Austin Post
• Edward R. LaChapelle
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers, accompanied by explanatory text by two devoted men of ice. The text is by Ed LaChapelle, an avalanche researcher, glaciologist, mountaineer, skier, author and professor, who died in 2007 at 80 of a heart attack while on the slopes in Colorado. Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers along the North Pacific Coast of North America and into the interior ranges of Alaska is supplemented with groundbased photographs from the Himalayas, Switzerland, Chile, and other parts of the world.
(SCI07, $27.95)
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Glaciers
• Michael Hambrey
• SCIENCE
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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, $75.00)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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H.W. Tilman, The Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books
• H. W. Tilman
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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Handbook of North American Indians: Arctic
• David Damas
• REFERENCE
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An encyclopedia of the culture, art, ceremony and history of the native peoples of the Arctic.
(ARC15, $52.00)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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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)
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The Ice Chronicles, The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change
• Paul Andrew Mayewski
• Frank White
• Lynn Margulis
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A history of the Greenland Ice Sheet drilling project, started in 1998 to help measure global climate change throughout history.
(SCI70, $19.95)
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Islands of the Arctic
• Julian Dowdeswell
• Michael Hambrey
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The authors, glaciologists both, use examples from their work in Greenland, Spitsbergen, Russia and the Canadian Arctic in this illustrated survey.
(ARC122, $50.00)
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The Last Imaginary Place
• Robert McGhee
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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McGhee combines a lifetime of field work, ethnography and travel in this illuminating account of the human history of the Arctic.
(ARC164, $18.00)
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The Little Ice Age, How Climate Made History 1300-1850
• Brian Fagan
• SCIENCE
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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)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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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)
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The Norsemen in the Viking Age
• Eric Christiansen
• HISTORY
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A cultural history of the Norse.
(VIK17, $26.95)
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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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One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead
• Clare Dudman
• LITERATURE
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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)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
• Peter Sawyer
• HISTORY
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An insightful overview of the Viking Age in Norway and abroad, illustrated throughout and featuring essays by 12 experts.
(VIK18, $27.95)
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Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary.
(EUR142, $9.95)
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The Royal Physician's Visit
• Per Olov Enquist
• LITERATURE
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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)
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The Sledge Patrol, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Victory
• David Howarth
• HISTORY
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An engrossing true-life adventure story of Danish and Norwegian hunters evading Nazi troops across the hostile terrain of Greenland.
(ARC112, $16.95)
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The Solitude of Thomas Cave
• Georgina Harding
• LITERATURE
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In this ghostly, beautifully written historical novel, set in the 17th-century Arctic, a British whaler bets the rest of his crew that he can spend one winter alone in the Arctic.
(ARC194, $23.95)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
• Richard Alley
• SCIENCE
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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)
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