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The First Crossing of Greenland
• Fridtjof Nansen
EXPLORATION •
2003 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
Nansen's account of his 1888 Greenland journey by ski and sledge with five companions, the first successful expedition across the Greenland icecap.
(ARC132, $29.95) |
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Islands of the Arctic
• Julian Dowdeswell
• Michael Hambrey
NATURAL HISTORY •
2002 •
HARD COVER
• 280 PAGES
A nicely illustrated 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. The authors, glaciologists both, have worked throughout the circumpolar north with 40 years of field work between them. With 242 color photographs by the authors, illustrating a wide variety of Arctic phenomena, including glaciation, frost action, sea ice, coastal features, and life of the icy seas and tundra. The book concludes with chapters on human habitation and the future of the Arctic.
(ARC122, $60.00) |
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
• Peter Hoeg
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 469 PAGES
Set in Denmark and Greenland and aboard a secret ship, this page-turner (made into a terrible movie) includes an excellent portrait of modern day Copenhagen in its first half.
(DMK03, $16.00) |
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To the Arctic! The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times
• Jeanette Mirsky
EXPLORATION •
1997 •
PAPER
• 334 PAGES
• COMING IN
A classic and wide-ranging narrative of Arctic exploration from the Dutch in Spitsbergen to the Russian Great Northern Expedition, the search for Franklin and the quest for the North Pole, originally published in 1934 and updated in 1970. It includes an excellent chapter on the discovery and exploration of Franz Josef Land.
(ARC31, $17.00) |
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