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An African in Greenland  •  Tete-Michel Kpomassie  •  James Kirkup
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2001 •  PAPER  • 300 PAGES
A memorable account of the odyssey of the West African author from Togo to Paris, Denmark and, ultimately, Greenland. Inspired by a children's book about Greenlanders, Kpomassie's grail is to visit the Arctic. A memoir, ethnography, travelogue and fairy tale, the charming and talented author's dreams all come true. Three-quarters of the book is devoted to his adventures in Greenland. Originally published in 1981. (ARC110, $14.95)
  An African in Greenland
Bradt Guide Faroe Islands  •  James Proctor
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES
A practical guide to the North Atlantic islands in the popular series, 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)
  Bradt Guide Faroe Islands
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)
  Call of the North, An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole
Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths  •  R.I. Page
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1996 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES
A collection of Viking writings, organized thematically, including runic inscriptions, poems and a handful of eyewitness accounts. Scholar R.I. Page provides commentary to compliment his translations. (VIK16, $29.95)
 
Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe  •  Glynis Ridley
HISTORY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES
The entertaining history of a most unusual eighteenth-century European celebrity. Clara the Indian rhinoceros was brought to Europe in 1741 by the Dutch sea captain Douwemout Van der Meer, and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of heads of state such as Louis XV and Frederick the Great. A marvelous and unique look at the introduction of Eastern wildlife into the Western world. (FRN536, $12.00)
  Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
Denmark Map  •  Freytag & Berndt
MAP
1:400,000 scale map of Denmark which includes inset maps of the major cities on the reverse. (SCN15, $12.95)
  Denmark Map
Distant Shores, The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent  •  Constance Martin  •  Rockwell Kent
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2000 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES
Distant Shores present 80 paintings, prints and drawings by Kent (1882-1971), many in glorious color, and including an exceptional selection of work from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Inspired by remote and inhospitable regions, the book follows Kent's life and work at Monhegan Island, Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego and Greenland. Published in conjunction with an exhibition by the same name. With 68 color illustrations and 58 black-and-white photographs. (ART34, $24.95)
  Distant Shores, The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent
The Eskimos  •  Ernest S. Burch, Jr.
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1988 •  HARD COVER  • 128 PAGES
An ethnographic portrait of Eskimo society, culture and beliefs, featuring 120 color photographs by Werner Forman and accompanying essays by anthropologist Ernest Burch. The oversize book shows the range and diversity of peoples of the circumpolar north with examples from eastern Siberia, the Aleutians, Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Its focus is on the Eskimo peoples of Alaska. (ARC165, $19.95)
  The Eskimos
Extremes, Surviving the World's Harshest Environments  •  Nick Middleton
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2005 •  HARD COVER  • 272 PAGES
A British geographer with a television show, Middleton is also a fine, entertaining tour guide. In this latest exploration of how to thrive in impossible places, he goes native in Greenland, the Congo, Niger and Papua New Guinea. It's a sequel to his Going to Extremes. (TVL65, $24.95)
  Extremes, Surviving the World's Harshest Environments
Glacier Ice  •  Austin Post  •  Edward R. LaChapelle
NATURAL HISTORY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 145 PAGES
An extraordinary book of aerial photographs of mountains, glaciers and ice accompanied by explanatory text by two devoted glaciologists. Much too beautiful to be called a textbook, this collection of striking black-and-white photographs introduces the major surface features, varieties of glaciers and diversity of ice. With a glossary and annotated bibliography for further reading. An obvious choice for mountaineers and polar explorers, this book will appeal to any curious traveler -- or even anyone who has ever looked out the window of an airplane en route over Greenland. In cooperation with the International Glaciological Society. A modern classic, originally published in 1971. (SCI07, $27.95)
  Glacier Ice
Glaciers  •  Michael Hambrey
SCIENCE •  2005 •  HARD COVER  • 376 PAGES
An excellent companion for travel to regions with glaciers and ice-carved landscapes, the expanded second edition of this handsome book is a pictorial overview of glacial phenomena. From Scandinavia to Alaska, Antarctica and Central Park, its 200 color photographs introduce the formation and types of glaciers and their impact on landscapes over time. If you've ever wondered about circques, fjords, eskers or moraines, this book in excellent guide. (GEO03, $85.00)
  Glaciers
The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral  •  Robert A. Scott
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 307 PAGES
Scott, whose interest in the history of cathedrals began when he first saw the magnificent Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England, takes his reader on a historical, architectural and sociological tour of the magnificent spires and stained-glass windows that dot the landscape of Europe. It's an accessible, personable overview. (EUR190, $17.95)
  The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
H.W. Tilman, The Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books  •  H. W. Tilman
EXPLORATION •  1987 •  HARD COVER  • 960 PAGES
A dizzying, 900-page omnibus of eight terrific books, all featuring Tilman's adventures aboard the Mischief, his base for exploring the mountains of the Southern Ocean, Patagonia and the Arctic. A wry, cantankerous and entertaining writer (who sailed off from Rio de Janeiro in his 80th year in 1977 never to be seen again), Tilman crafts books that are jammed with information about the places he and his crew visited, including crossing the Patagonian Ice Cap, crossing of Bylot Island and ascent of Big Ben on Heard. This collection includes Mischief in Patagonia, Mischief among the Penguins, Mischief in Greenland, Mostly Mischief, Mischief Goes South, In Mischief's Wake, Ice With Everything, and Triumph and Tribulation. His earlier moountaineering books have been collected in a separate, and equally interesting, volume. (EXP13, $38.00)
  H.W. Tilman, The Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books
Handbook of North American Indians: Arctic  •  David Damas
REFERENCE •  1984 •  HARD COVER  • 829 PAGES
The definitive reference on native peoples of the Arctic, one of the Smithsonian's fine series on North American Indians. Authoritative and somewhat academic, it's a terrific book for your library. Widely illustrated with photographs and drawings. (ARC15, $52.00)
 
Here Is Where We Meet  •  John Berger
LITERATURE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
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. "The dead don't stay where they are buried," the protagonist's mother tells him, and this becomes the mantra for this most unusual journey through Europe's history and people. (EUR189, $14.00)
  Here Is Where We Meet
The Ice Chronicles, The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change  •  Paul Andrew Mayewski  •  Frank White  •  Lynn Margulis
NATURAL HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 264 PAGES
A history of the Greenland Ice Sheet drilling project, started in 1998 to help measure global climate change throughout history. (SCI70, $19.95)
 
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, $50.00)
  Islands of the Arctic
The Last Imaginary Place  •  Robert McGhee
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2007 •  PAPER  • 296 PAGES
In this wide-ranging portrait of the Arctic, McGhee combines a lifetime of archaeological field work, history and travel, touching on whalers and ivory-hunters, explorers, fur-traders, Viking farmers and, most particularly, the native peoples in a series of illuminating essays. With 37 black-and-white illustrations, 31 color photographs and nine maps. Published in conjunction with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where McGhee is curator of Arctic archaeology. (ARC164, $18.00)
  The Last Imaginary Place
The Little Ice Age, How Climate Made History 1300-1850  •  Brian Fagan
SCIENCE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES
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)
  The Little Ice Age, How Climate Made History 1300-1850
Mammals of Europe  •  Priscilla Barrett  •  David W. MacDonald
FIELD GUIDE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
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, it's a comprehensive handbook, with detailed descriptions, range maps and commentary on behavior. (FG61, $34.95)
  Mammals of Europe
The Norsemen in the Viking Age  •  Eric Christiansen
HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 378 PAGES
This scholary history of the Norse takes somewhat of a revisionist approach, examining the evolution of Viking culture as a direct reaction to threatening environmental and social forces at home and abroad. (VIK17, $26.95)
 
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)
  North to the Night, A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic
One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead  •  Clare Dudman
LITERATURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES
What an intriguing idea! Clare Dudman takes the bare-bones of Alfred Wegener's adventurous life (1880-1930) and builds around that foundation an engrossing tale of science and exploration, richly set against a backdrop of Greenland (where Wegener ultimately met his demise) Dudman's first-person voice recalls the brave men and bad weather in the Victorian age. A meteorologist, it was Wegener who first proposed the notion of continental drift. Published in the U.K. as Wegener's Jigsaw. (ARC148, $14.00)
  One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings  •  Peter Sawyer
HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 298 PAGES
This compact, well-produced book, featuring contributions by 12 experts, is an insightful overview of the Viking Age. With numerous black-and-white illustrations. (VIK18, $27.99)
  The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary  •  Rick Steves
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •  2003 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES
A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. French, German and Italian phrases are side-by-side on the page so that you can pick and choose depending on the situation. This is no dry litany but instead peppered with humor and Rick Steves' insider insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world. (EUR142, $9.95)
  Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary
The Royal Physician's Visit  •  Per Olov Enquist
LITERATURE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
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. It's a wonderfully realized book. (DMK21, $14.00)
 
The Sledge Patrol, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Victory  •  David Howarth
HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES
An engrossing true-life adventure story of Danish and Norwegian hunters evading Nazi troops across the hostile terrain of Greenland. (ARC112, $16.95)
  The Sledge Patrol, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Victory
The Solitude of Thomas Cave  •  Georgina Harding
LITERATURE •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 192 PAGES
In this powerful work of historical fiction set in the 17th-century Arctic, a British whaler bets the rest of his crew that he can spend one winter alone in the Greenland. A strange, ghostly tale, beautifully written. (ARC194, $23.95)
 
Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe  •  Marybeth Bond  •  Mary Morris
ANTHOLOGY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 298 PAGES
This entertaining collection depicts Europe through the eyes of a diverse group of women writers, including Frances Mayes, Jan Morris and Mary Morris. These humorous and well-written true stories capture the misadventures, discoveries and slices of life that the continent (and travel!) has to offer. (EUR160, $17.95)
  Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future  •  Richard Alley
SCIENCE •  2000 •  PAPER  • 229 PAGES
Paleoclimatologist Richard Alley takes the long view in this persuasive, accessible survey of climatic change as revealed through ice core drilling. He includes enthusiastic tales of his research in Greenland and Antarctica, an overview of how climate works, and his prognostication for the future. The world climate, not surprisingly, has changed often and suddenly over the last 100,000 years. An excellent, lively report. (SCI24, $19.95)
  The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

 
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