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Across Arctic America, Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition
• Knud Rasmussen
• EXPLORATION
• OUT OF PRINT
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A facsimile edition of Rasmussen's 1927 account of a 20,000-mile journey by dogsled across the top of North America.
(ARC90, $24.95)
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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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Arctic Adventure, My Life in the Frozen North
• Peter Freuchen
• Gretel Ehrlich
• EXPLORATION
• OUT OF PRINT
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A marvelous account of life in remote northwest Greenland, originally published in 1935. Freuchen ran a trading post at Thule with Knud Rasmussen.
(ARC133, $17.95)
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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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Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• Jared Diamond
• HISTORY
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Diamond tackles nothing less than the history and fate of civilization in this compelling book in which he offers case studies, present and past, of societies that work and societies that do not, devoting 100 carefully reasoned pages, for example, to the fate of the Norse settlements in Greenland (climatic change, Inuit) and another big section on Easter Island (deforestation, hubris).
(GEN324, $18.00)
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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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Driving to Greenland
• Peter Stark
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• OUT OF PRINT
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Stark is an adventurous, entertaining writer -- whether he's at the precipice of the monster ski jump in Iron Mountain, Michigan, squeezed into a kayak with the local Greenlanders or on the road in Iceland.
(ARC69, $14.95)
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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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The Frozen Echo, Greenland and the Exploration of North America, 1000-1500
• Kirsten Seaver
• HISTORY
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A scholarly account of Norse settlements in Greenland and Canada -- the best analysis of the subject to be published in decades.
(ARC76, $29.95)
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N by E
• Rockwell Kent
• Edward Hoagland
• EXPLORATION
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The classic account of a 1929 sailing voyage from Labrador to Greenland, illustrated with wood-block prints by the author on every other page.
(ARC35, $19.95)
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Glacier Ice
• Austin Post
• Edward R. LaChapelle
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An extraordinary book of aerial black-and-white photographs of mountains, glaciers and ice accompanied by explanatory text. This beautiful photograph collection introduces the major surface features and varieties of glaciers.
(SCI07, $35.00)
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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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An Illustrated History of the First World War
• John Keegan
• HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War
(WAR16, $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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Last Places, A Journey in the North
• Lawrence Millman
• Paul Theroux
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Millman explores the culture and history of the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland in this and often hilarious account of his travels in the wake of the ancient Vikings.
(ARC54, $13.00)
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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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No One Thinks of Greenland
• John Griesemer
• LITERATURE
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The Allies secret WWII army base in Greenland serves as inspiration for this tale of mysterious goings-on during the Korean War.
(ARC149, $15.00)
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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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Polar Bears
• Ian Stirling
• Dan Guravich
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A tribute to the polar bear by a pre-eminent researcher, this handsome natural history features 150 outstanding color photographs by the intrepid wildlife photographer Dan Guravich. Stirling enriches chapters on polar bear biology, distribution and abundance, behavior and study with snippets of Inuit legend and hoary tales of fieldwork across the Arctic.
(ARC58, $29.95)
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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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Riddle of the Ice, A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic
• Myron Arms
• SCIENCE
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An account of a 1991 scientific expedition to study climate change, including sailing voyage from Newfoundland across the Davis Strait to Greenland aboard a 50-foot sloop.
(ARC93, $12.95)
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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 Sagas of Icelanders
• Jane Smiley
• Robert Kellog
• EXPLORATION
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Nine sagas and six tales composed between 1000 and 1500, including an account of Leif Eriksson's voyage to North America, all newly translated. With an introduction by Jane Smiley.
(ICL13, $22.00)
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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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Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo
• Henry Rink
• ANTHOLOGY
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A facsimile edition of a collection of Greenlandic tales with a sketch of "their habits, religion, language and other peculiarities" by the explorer and Danish governor of Southern Greenland, originally published in 1875. With woodcuts and engravings.
(ARC184, $12.95)
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The Thrall's Tale
• Judith Lindbergh
• LITERATURE
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Inspired by the Norse sagas, this well-researched historical novel follows the fate of three women at the beginning of the Christian era in Greenland.
(ARC174, $15.00)
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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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Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga
• William Fitzhugh
• Elisabeth Ward
• HISTORY
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An extensively illustrated volume of Viking culture, history and exploration that focuses especially on voyages to North America. Published in conjunction with a Smithsonian exhibit, it features essays and 400 color photographs.
(VIK11, $34.95)
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Vinland Sagas, Norse Discovery of America
• Magnus Magnusson
• EXPLORATION
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These Icelandic sagas, as edited by the great Magnus Magnusson, tell the compelling story of the Norse discovery of America five centuries before the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
(VIK03, $13.00)
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