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These 5 items are available for $93, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXARC197)

Lonely Planet Greenland and the Arctic  •  Deanna Swaney GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES A comprehensive guide to the circumpolar north, covering Greenland and the Alaskan, the Canadian, the Scandinavian and the Russian Arctic. (ARC73, $26.99)
A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic  •  E.C. Pielou NATURAL HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 327 PAGES A well written primer on Arctic climate, geography, plants, birds, mammals and insects in a single nicely written book. It's a highly recommended, enthusiastic guide to natural history throughout the North -- a good first choice for even the keenest naturalist. With line drawings, charts, and maps. (ARC03, $22.00)
To the Arctic, The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times  •  Jeanette Mirsky EXPLORATION •  1997 •  PAPER  • 334 PAGES 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)
Arctic Dreams, Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape  •  Barry Lopez NATURAL HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 417 PAGES • FAVORITE One of the best books we've read on any destination, this celebrated meditation on the Arctic draws on Lopez's travels throughout the North, including Baffin Island, Siberia and Greenland. A dazzling writer and compassionate observer, Lopez weaves biology and history into his storytelling, including extended chapters on the polar bear and narwhal. (ARC11, $15.00)
North Circumpolar Region  •  Canada Map Office MAP A bird's-eye view of the top of the world, showing the Arctic Ocean and all the lands of the far north, including the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, Siberia, Northern Europe, and Greenland. At a scale of 1:10,000,000. (ARC16, $19.95)

Greenland Map  •  ITMB    •  A full-color, folded map. (ARC111, $9.95)
North Pole, South Pole Map  •  Canadian Geographic    •  This simple color map shows the Circumpolar North on one side and the Antarctic continent on the reverse at a scale of 1:11,000,000. (ARC197, $9.95)
Northwest Territories and Yukon and Nunavut  •  Canada Map Office   • COMING IN  •  A full-color map of Northern and Arctic Canada, covering the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut a a scale of 1:4 million. (CND280, $10.95)
Bradt Lapland  •  James Proctor   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide in the popular series covers the nature, history and culture of the Sami lands of northernmost Scandinavia (Norway, Finland and Sweden) between the Arctic Circle and North Cape. (ARC207, $22.99)
Arctic Visions  •  Fred Breummer   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • COMING IN JANUARY  •  A celebrated photographer who has traveled and lived throughout the circumpolar North, Bruemmer captures the spirit of the place in a series of lavishly illustrated essays on the Arctic, its nature and people. (ARC223, $40.00)
The Arctic, A History  •  Richard Vaughan   • HISTORY  •  This revised edition of Richard Vaughn's useful history of the native peoples, explorers and politics in the Arctic from the earliest inhabitants to the present includes new chapters on climate change, mineral rights and other issues. (ARC37, $34.95)
The Vanishing Arctic  •  Bryan Alexander   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  This handsome book by the intrepid husband-and-wife team documents life in the Circumpolar North, from the northernmost Greenlanders, to the reindeer herders of Lapland, the Cree people of the Canadian Subarctic, Canadian Inuit and the Nenets of Siberia. (ARC25, $35.00)
Celebrating Inuit Art  •  Maria von Finckelstein   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This celebration of carvings in stone, ivory and Antler,organized geographically, reflects regional styles across the Canadian Arctic. With 100 large color reproductions and a superb accompanying essay by James Houston. (ARC200, $39.95)
Cold Comfort, My Love Affair with the Arctic  •  Graham Rowley   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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. (ARC67, $29.95)
Farthest North  •  Fridtjof Nansen   • EXPLORATION  •  The great Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen's classic account of the voyage of the Fram, originally published in 1897. His compelling adventure jumps from the page through maps and photographs. (ARC60, $17.95)
Hell on Ice, The Saga of the Jeanette  •  Edward Ellsberg   • EXPLORATION  •  This limited edition of the dramatic fictionalized account of the doomed Jeanette Expedition and their time in the New Siberian Islands includes a CD of the original 1938 radio play by Orson Well's Merculy Thetaer. (ARC138, $27.95)
Historical Atlas of the Arctic  •  Derek Hayes   • EXPLORATION  •  A handsome collection of 300 striking maps, most in glorious color and many presented here for the first time. Hayes provides captivating, scholarly commentary. (ARC135, $60.00)
N by E  •  Rockwell Kent  •  Edward Hoagland   • EXPLORATION  •  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)
Ninety Degrees North, The Quest for the North Pole  •  Fergus Fleming   • EXPLORATION  •  A thrilling, artfully told chronicle of the mostly 19th-century adventurers, madmen and explorers who quested after the North Pole. (ARC124, $15.00)
The Ice Finders, How a Poet, a Professor and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age  •  Edmund Blair Bolles   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A wonderfully eccentric history of 19th-century science, focusing on three personalities and their ideas about the role of ice in Earth's history. Each contributed to the Victorian debate among scientists, explorers and the man on the street about the nature of the polar regions. (ARC78, $14.95)
The Last Gentleman Adventurer, Coming of Age in the Arctic  •  Edward Beauclerk Maurice  •  Lawrence Millman   • EXPLORATION  •  Maurice's poignant tale of coming-of-age with the Hudson Bay Company in the Canadian Arctic in the 1930s. Posted to Pangnirtung as a remarkably unlikely 17-year-old recruit, Maurice grew into a man with the fur traders and Inuit of Baffin Island, earning the name of Issumatak (One Who Thinks). (ARC173, $14.95)
The Last Imaginary Place  •  Robert McGhee   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  McGhee combines a lifetime of field work, ethnography and travel in this illuminating account of the human history of the Arctic. (ARC164, $18.00)
The Sagas of Icelanders  •  Jane Smiley  •  Robert Kellog   • EXPLORATION  •  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)
The Voyage of the Narwhal  •  Andrea Barrett   • EXPLORATION  •  A gripping work of historical imagination in the form of a 19th-century account of Arctic exploration. It's Barrett's evocative tale of a Philadelphia naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells who sets out on a foolhardy mission in search of the Franklin Expedition in the Canadian Arctic. (ARC40, $14.00)
Two Against the Ice  •  Ejnar Mikkelsen  •  Lawrence Millman   • EXPLORATION  •  A chronicle of Mikkelson's quest to recover the lost diaries of a 1908 expedition to Northeast Greenland, a classic originally published in 1955. (ARC137, $14.95)
Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North  •  Andre Malaurie   • EXPLORATION  •  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. (ARC123, $75.00)
Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer  •  Chauncey Loomis  •  Andrea Barrett   • EXPLORATION  •  The tale of 19th-century Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his untimely death somewhere in Greenland. (ARC63, $19.00)
Lost in the Arctic  •  Lawrence Millman   • ANTHOLOGY  •  An anthology of far-ranging, insightful and funny essays on travels, and not just in the north. (ARC125, $15.95)
Near Death in the Arctic  •  Ceci Kuhne   • LITERATURE • COMING IN FEBRUARY  •  Including disaster tales from the Antarctic, too, this compendium of sub-zero survival stories chronicles adventurers from Ernest Shackleton to Richard E. Byrd. (ARC224, $15.95)
The Greenlanders  •  Jane Smiley   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  This marvelously researched novel recreates life in the Viking settlements in Greenland. (ARC08, $15.95)
The Navigator of New York  •  Wayne Johnston   • LITERATURE  •  An absorbing novel interweaving details of the real-life race to the North Pole, and the tale of a young man drawn into their world. (ARC127, $15.95)
A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife  •  Richard Sale   • NATURAL HISTORY • NEW  •  This stunning primer features hundreds of spectacular color photographs, range maps and descriptions of 200 birds and 77 mammals. (ARC190, $49.95)
Arctic Fox, Life at the Top of the World  •  Garry Hamilton   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A gorgeously photographed celebration of the remarkable arctic fox, its ecology and habitat. (ARC217, $39.95)
Glacier Ice  •  Austin Post  •  Edward R. LaChapelle   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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)
Islands of the Arctic  •  Julian Dowdeswell  •  Michael Hambrey   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The authors, glaciologists both, use examples from their work in Greenland, Spitsbergen, Russia and the Canadian Arctic in this illustrated survey. (ARC122, $50.00)
Masters of the Arctic Ice  •  National Geographic Society   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  This spectacular one-hour documentary, filmed using the National Geographic Crittercam, features the ringed seals and polar bears of Prudhoe Bay and narwhals around Baffin Island. (ARC211, $19.98)
Polar Bears  •  Ian Stirling  •  Dan Guravich   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A tribute to the polar bear by a pre-eminent researcher, this handsome natural history features 150 outstanding color photographs by intrepid wildlife photographer Dan Guravich. (ARC58, $29.95)
Riddle of the Ice, A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic  •  Myron Arms   • SCIENCE  •  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)
The Arctic, The Complete Story  •  Richard Sale   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Sales draws on decades of field work and travels in the Circumpolar North for this comprehensive, richly illustrated portrait of the Arctic, its people, history, wildlife and future. (ARC218, $60.00)
The Ice Museum, In Search of the Lost Land of Thule  •  Joanna Kavenna   • SCIENCE  •  The enchanting account of travels throughout the North, with chapters on Shetland, Iceland, Estonia, Greenland and Spitsbergen, all proposed as the Thule of the ancient world. (ARC175, $15.00)
The Last Polar Bear, Facing the Truth of a Warming World  •  Steve Kazlowski   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Kazlowski's exquisite photographs celebrate the nature and wildlife of the Arctic coastal plain, documenting not just the polar bear but also walrus, beluga, bearded and spotted seal and Arctic fox. With accompanying essays. (ARC204, $39.95)
The World of the Polar Bear  •  Norbert Rosing  •  Ian Stirling   • NATURAL HISTORY • NEW  •  Norbert Rosing provides all new photography in this edition of his sumptuous and informative volume showcasing not only the photogenic bears and their cubs but also the sly Arctic fox, sleek seals, ungainly walruses, myriad seabirds and glimmering aurora borealis. Tracking change over the four seasons, his essays describe his travels and the natural history of Hudson Bay. (ARC50, $45.00)
The World of the Walrus  •  Peter Knudson   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN  •  An overview of the natural and cultural history of the walrus featuring 50 full color photographs. (ARC89, $12.95)
Vanishing World, The Endangered Arctic  •  Mireilla De La Lez  •  Fredrik Granath   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  (ARC203, $40.00)
Smithsonian Handbook: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises  •  Mark Carwardine   • FIELD GUIDE  •  In the trademark, graphic Eyewitness style, this sturdy guidebook colorfully describes the world's cetaceans with numerous illustrations, range maps, fluke drawings and a few paragraphs on each species. (FG02, $20.00)