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By Airship to the North Pole, An Archaeology of Human Exploration
• P.J. Capelotti
ARCHAEOLOGY •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 209 PAGES
An aeronautical history of two turn-of-the century expeditions from Danskoya (Danes Island) in Spitsbergen. Capelotti recounts the misadventures of the Swedish expedition led by Salomon Andree (whose remains were never recovered) along with the neglected Wellman expedition, sponsored by the Chicago Record-Herald in 1906. He includes a detailed archaeological analysis of the aerial polar base camps on Danskoya.
(ARC68, $26.00) |
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Circumpolar North / Greenland Map
• ITMB
2009 •
MAP
This revised full-color, folded map of Greenland at a scale of 900,000 (with index, shaded coastal relief and travel notes) includes on the reverse the stunning North Circumpolar Region Map, published by the Natural Resources Canada. Showing all the land above 60 degrees north, this striking map also shows limits of polar sea ice, position of the magnetic North Pole and bathymetry of the Arctic basin. Two Sides. 39x27 inches.
(ARC111, $12.95) |
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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) |
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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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Last Places, A Journey in the North
• Lawrence Millman
• Paul Theroux
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 242 PAGES
In the wake of the Vikings, the intrepid author explores the landscapes, culture and history of the North Atlantic. His wry -- and sometimes hilarious -- commentary illuminates modern life in the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland.
(ARC54, $15.95) |
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North Circumpolar Region
• Canada Map Office
2008 •
MAP
A bird's-eye view of the top of the world, showing the Arctic Ocean and all the lands north of 55 degrees, including the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, Siberia, Northern Europe, and Greenland. Printed on high quality glossy paper, this revised editon, published by Natural Resources Canada, shows bathymetry of the sea floor, named basins and ridges, shaded relief on sea and land, and limits of the tree line and sea ice.
(ARC16, $19.95) |
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The North Pole, A Narrative History
• Anthony Brandt
EXPLORATION •
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) |
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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) |
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Historical Atlas of the Arctic
• Derek Hayes
EXPLORATION •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES
A handsome collection of 300 striking maps, most in glorious color and many presented here for the first time. Hayes provides captivating, scholarly commentary. The maps show five centuries of exploration with chapters on early notions of the Arctic, Russian exploration, Cook, Peary Franklin, North Pole, Northwest and Northeast passages, territorial claims, and exploration by air. Hayes includes a catalog of maps -- and a final chapter of sonar, satellites and sea ice.
(ARC135, $64.95) |
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Frost on My Moustache, The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer
• Tim Moore
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 280 PAGES
In this inspired folly, a British comic heads north, supposedly in pursuit of the famous Victorian explorer the "Marquess of Dufferin and Ava." Moore's account of his travels in Iceland, Spitsbergen, Norway, the Faroes and other northern locales make for good reading (especially if you appreciate dead-pan British humor on such subjects as vomiting and discomfort).
(ARC74, $16.99) |
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Glacier Ice
• Austin Post
• Edward R. LaChapelle
NATURAL HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 145 PAGES
A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers 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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Ice Bear
• Steven Kazlowski
NATURAL HISTORY •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 96 PAGES
With accompanying commentary by polar bear expert Ian Sterling, these 100 color photographs show the polar bear, rugged ice floes, aurora borealis, walruses, seals, Arctic foxes and rabbits, beluga whales, and a variety of birds including the snowy owl. Kazlowski also captures the Inuit people and their culture in which the polar bear plays a significant part.
(ARC280, $18.95) |
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