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HIGH ARCTIC: GREENLAND & CANADA
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Ancient People of the Arctic
• Robert McGhee
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 244 PAGES
In this nicely illustrated overview of the Paleo-Eskimos (Doreset), Robert McGhee, an archaeologist, brings vibrantly to life North America's first settlers and their culture. With photographs of ancient sites, art objects and tools. McGhee is curator of Arctic archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Quebec.
(ARC163, $32.95) |
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Cold Comfort, My Love Affair with the Arctic
• Graham Rowley
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2006 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
A warm account of a cold land, this memoir of an archaeologist on the west coast of Baffin Island, and his work in the field before WWII, is also a tribute to people and places on the brink of change in the North. This new edition includes the beginning of Rowley's planned sequel covering his post-war experiences in the Arctic. The additional three chapters describe Operation Musk-Ox, the first military exercise to show that it was feasible to manoeuvre in the Arctic even in winter, and Rowley's work for the Canadian Defense Research Board. An afterword by Susan Rowley and John Bennett expands on Rowley's ongoing involvement in the rapid change that took place from the Cold War to the establishment of Nunavut.
(ARC67, $29.95) |
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Ending in Ice, The Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition of Alfred Wegener
• Roger M. McCoy
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 206 PAGES
In the early 20th century Wegener made four expeditions to the then-uncharted Greenland icecap to gather data about climate variations (Greenland ice-core sampling continues to this day). Ending in Ice is about Wegener's explorations of Greenland, blending the science of ice ages and Wegener's continental drift measurements with the story of Wegener's fatal expedition trying to bring desperately needed food and fuel to workers at the central Greenland ice station of Eismitte in 1930. Arctic exploration books with tragic endings have become all too common, but this book combines Wegener's fatal adventures in Greenland with the relevant science.
(ARC208, $40.00) |
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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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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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Inuit Folk-Tales
• Knud Rasmussen
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2009 •
PAPER
• 303 PAGES
This pocket edition of Inuit tales collected the pioneering Arctic anthropologist at the turn of the last century, originally published in 1921 as Eskimo Folk-Tales. Born in Ilulissat (Jacobshaven), the half-Inuit, half-Dane Rasmussen established a trading post in Thule.
(ARC227, $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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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) |
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The Presence of Whales, Contemporary Writers on the Whale
• Frank Stewart
NATURAL HISTORY •
1995 •
PAPER
• 319 PAGES
In this well chosen series of essays, some of our best modern writers enlighten and entertain on the subject of whales. In addition to a number of reports from the Pacific Northwest, the collection includes a Roger Payne piece on the humpback, Diane Ackerman's essay on the right whales of Patagonia and Barry Lopez's extraordinary thoughts on the narwhal.
(BST02, $15.95) |
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Through the Eyes of the Vikings, An Aerial Vision of Arctic Lands
• Robert B. Haas
NATURAL HISTORY •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES
In this collection of oversized aerial photographs, Haas (Through the Eyes of the Gods) reveals the surprising diversity of color and life in arctic landscapes, from Alaska's tundra, Churchill's polar bears and Norway's fjords to the waterscapes of Sweden, humpback whales of Greenland and dramatic glaciers of Iceland. Captivating.
(ARC270, $50.00) |
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True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole
• Bruce Henderson
EXPLORATION •
2006 •
PAPER
• 331 PAGES
A brief account the controversy, bitter rivalry and competing claims between Robert Peary and Frederick Cook. By the author of Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, the First US Expedition to the North Pole.
(ARC158, $24.95) |
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Polar Bears
• Ian Stirling
NATURAL HISTORY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 232 PAGES
A tribute to the polar bear by preeminent researcher Ian Stirling and intrepid photographer Dan Guravich, featuring 160 color photographs. It's an excellent combination of outstanding color photography, solid information on natural history and Inuit lore. With chapters on polar bear biology, distribution and abundance, behavior and study, the polar bears of Churchill, environmental concerns and the conflicts between people and bears.
(ARC58, $40.00) |
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Uqalurait, An Oral History of Nunavut
• John Bennett
• Susan Rowley
HISTORY •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 520 PAGES
A history of the people of Nunavut in their own words, drawing on accounts of early exploration, interviews and traditional tales.
(ARC169, $85.00) |
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Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North
• Jean Malaurie
EXPLORATION •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 399 PAGES
In this oversize, handsomely illustrated history of European exploration of Greenland and the Arctic, Malaurie draws together explorers' logs, Inuit accounts, photographs, engravings, and period drawings. Covering the years from 1818 to 2000, Malaurie portrays the people, traditions and life of the Men of the North in detail. Paying close attention to the impact on the local cultures, Malaurie also includes Inuit witnesses and commentary. The collection of archival photographs showcased in the book is extraordinary. With a final chapter on Thule 2000.
(ARC123, $75.00) |
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Ninety Degrees North, The Quest for the North Pole
• Fergus Fleming
EXPLORATION •
2003 •
PAPER
• 496 PAGES
A thrilling, artfully told chronicle of the mostly 19th-century adventurers, madmen and explorers who quested after the North Pole. A marvelous storyteller, Fergus (who also wrote Barrow's Boys and Killing Dragons) interweaves journal excerpts with his own account of the often fateful exploits of Robert Peary, Frederick Cook. Elisha Kent Kane and other Arctic explorers. Though all the starvation, cold, braggadocio and lies, Fleming communicates with grace, clarity and wit the magnetic attraction of what historian Pierre Berton has called the Arctic Grail.
(ARC124, $15.00) |
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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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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) |
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The Fast Runner, Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat
• Michael Robert Evans
EXPLORATION •
2010 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
Evans shows the culture, history and traditions of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic in this behind-the-scenes look at the making of the remarkable Atanarjuat, filmed on location on Baffin Island, directed, acted and performed in Inuktitut.
(ARC255, $19.95) |
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Baffin Island: Climbing, Trekking & Skiing
• Mark Synnott
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
Beautifully illustrated with stunning photos and detailed maps this comprehensive outdoor guide by adventurer, filmmaker and writer Synnott covers activities across rugged Baffin Island.
(ARC236, $29.95) |
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The Greenlanders
• Jane Smiley
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 608 PAGES
• FAVORITE
This marvelously researched novel recreates life in the Viking settlements in Greenland, which disappeared 500 years ago. Smiley delves in the medieval colonies, their struggles to survive in the harsh environment, contacts with indigenous people and causes of their disappearance. It includes the tale of the Norse discovery of North America.
(ARC08, $15.95) |
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