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Historical Atlas of the Arctic

by 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. (ARC135, $64.95)

A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic

by E.C. Pielou

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 1994
• PAPER
• 327 PAGES

Our best-selling book on the Arctic, this guide covers the geography and climate, plants, birds and wildlife of the circumpolar north. (ARC03, $22.00)

Arctic Dreams

by Barry Lopez

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2001
• PAPER
• 417 PAGES
• FAVORITE

A dazzling meditation on the Arctic, breathtaking in scope. Lopez draws on his travels throughout the North, including Baffin Island, the Chukchi and Bering seas, Alaska, the Yukon and Greenland, interweaving natural history, accounts of early exploration, anecdote and lore into an indelible portrait of place. (ARC11, $16.00)

North Circumpolar Region

by Canada Map Office

• 2008
• MAP

A striking bird's-eye view of the Arctic Ocean and all the lands of the far north, at a scale of 1:9,000,000, with shaded relief on sea and land. (ARC16, $19.95)

 

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Circumpolar North / Greenland Map

by ITMB

• 2009
• MAP

With the North Circumpolar region on one side, including Iceland, and a detailed map of Greenland on the other. (ARC111, $12.95)

North Pole, South Pole Map

by Canadian Geographic

• 2007
• MAP
• 2 PAGES

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

by Canada Map Office

• 2000
• MAP

A full-color rolled map of Northern and Arctic Canada, covering the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut a scale of 1:4 million. (CND280, $19.95)

Bradt Lapland

by James Proctor

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 208 PAGES

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, $24.99)

Arctic Visions

by Fred Breummer

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2009
• HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES

Celebrated photographer Bruemmer showcases the Arctic's majestic beauty and rare culture, recounting intimate moments he spent with the native peoples living, hunting, and surviving in an environment of almost unimaginable harshness. (ARC223, $40.00)

The Arctic, A History

by Richard Vaughan

• HISTORY
• 2008
• HARD COVER
• 365 PAGES

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

by Bryan Alexander

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1997
• HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES
• 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)

Who Owns the Arctic?, Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North

by Michael Byers

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 179 PAGES

Who actually controls the Northwest Passage? Who owns the trillions of dollars of oil and gas beneath the Arctic Ocean? A leading Arctic expert and international lawyer, Byers clearly and concisely explains the sometimes contradictory rules governing the division and protection of the Arctic in this timely little primer. (ARC276, $17.95)

A History of Arctic Exploration

by Juha Nurminen

• EXPLORATION
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 349 PAGES

The ancient Inuit, Vikings, Vitus Bering, whalers, explorers and James Cook all are paid tribute in striking art and historic maps in this sumptuously illustrated history, drawing on the collections of Helsinki's Nurminen Foundation. (ARC257, $60.00)

Arctic Labyrinth

by Glyn Williams

• EXPLORATION
• 2011
• PAPER
• 464 PAGES

Drawing on letters, archives and explorer accounts, Williams charts the full sweep of the history of discovery and the quest for the Northwest Passage. (ARC254, $22.95)

Cold Comfort, My Love Affair with the Arctic

by 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. (ARC67, $29.95)

Hell on Ice, The Saga of the Jeanette

by Edward Ellsberg

• EXPLORATION
• 2003
• HARD COVER
• 421 PAGES

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 Welles's Mercury Theater. (ARC138, $27.95)

In the Empire of Ice, Encounters in a Changing Landscape

by Gretel Ehrlich

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 320 PAGES

Ehrlich (This Cold Heaven) returns to the Arctic in this haunting account of the traditions, challenges and allure of the people and landscapes of the Circumpolar North. Recipient of a grant from National Geographic, she had a year to make her way from the Bering Strait to Siberia, Arctic Canada and Greenland, collecting stories and visiting old friends. (ARC260, $28.00)

N by E

by Rockwell Kent | Edward Hoagland

• EXPLORATION
• 1996
• PAPER
• 282 PAGES

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, $22.95)

Ninety Degrees North, The Quest for the North Pole

by 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. (ARC124, $15.00)

The Ice Finders, How a Poet, a Professor and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age

by Edmund Blair Bolles

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2000
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

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, $17.95)

The Last Gentleman Adventurer

by Edward Beauclerk Maurice | Lawrence Millman

• EXPLORATION
• 2006
• PAPER
• 416 PAGES

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

by Robert McGhee

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2007
• PAPER
• 296 PAGES

A curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, 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

by Jane Smiley | Robert Kellog

• EXPLORATION
• 2000
• PAPER
• 544 PAGES

Nine sagas and six tales composed between the years 1000 and 1500, including an account of Leif Eriksson's voyage to North America, all newly translated. With an introduction by Jane Smiley. (ICL13, $25.00)

The Voyage of the Narwhal

by Andrea Barrett

• EXPLORATION
• 1999
• PAPER
• 416 PAGES

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, $14.95)

Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North

by 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. (ARC123, $75.00)

Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer

by Chauncey Loomis | Andrea Barrett

• EXPLORATION
• 2000
• PAPER
• 350 PAGES

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

by Lawrence Millman

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 294 PAGES

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

by Ceci Kuhne

• LITERATURE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

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

by Jane Smiley

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 608 PAGES
• FAVORITE

This marvelously researched novel recreates life in the Viking settlements in Greenland. (ARC08, $15.95)

The Navigator of New York

by Wayne Johnston

• LITERATURE
• 2002
• PAPER
• 483 PAGES

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

by Richard Sale

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2006
• HARD COVER
• 464 PAGES

This stunning primer features hundreds of spectacular color photographs, range maps and descriptions of 200 birds and 77 mammals. (ARC190, $49.95)

After the Ice

by Alun Anderson

• SCIENCE
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 298 PAGES

Anderson includes his travels, often by ship, and interviews with dozens of researchers and local leaders from Greenland to Siberia for this sharp report on the people, politics and impact of climatic change at the top of the world. (ARC263, $26.99)

AntARCTIC, A Tribute to Life in the Polar Regions

by Michael Poliza

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2011
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

With his inimitable blend of intimate close-ups and cinematic landscapes, Poliza celebrates polar wildlife and landscapes in this compact edition of his oversized, sumptuous original, (ANT314, $39.95)

Arctic Animals, And Their Adaptations to Life on the Edge

by Arnoldus Blix

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2005
• HARD COVER

A textbook and illustrated overview of Arctic ecology, featuring 200 color photographs. (ARC231, $63.00)

Arctic Eden

by Jerry Kobalenko

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES

Kobalenko's dramatic photographs capture the grandeur and stark beauty of the High Arctic in this illustrated tale of epic ski expeditions in places including Ellesmere Island, Grise Fiord, Alexandra Fiord and remote NW Greenland. (ARC269, $40.00)

Arctic Eden

by Jerry Kobalenko

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES

Kobalenko's dramatic photographs capture the grandeur and stark beauty of the High Arctic in this illustrated tale of epic ski expeditions in places including Ellesmere Island, Grise Fiord, Alexandra Fiord and remote NW Greenland. (ARC269, $40.00)

Arctic Fox, Life at the Top of the World

by Garry Hamilton

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2008
• HARD COVER
• 232 PAGES

A gorgeously photographed celebration of the remarkable arctic fox, its ecology and habitat. (ARC217, $39.95)

Arctic Kingdom, Life at the Edge

by National Geographic Society

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2009
• DVD

Filmed in the Canadian arctic, this breathtaking entry in Nat Geo's Last Great Places series stars polar bears, ringed seals, arctic foxes bowhead and beluga whales, narwhals and other Arctic wildlife. Narrated by James Coburn. (ARC284, $19.95)

Glacier Ice

by 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. Ed LaChapelle's text is paired with Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers from Alaska and Chile to Switzerland, the Himalayas and other parts of the world. (SCI07, $27.95)

Islands of the Arctic

by Julian Dowdeswell | Michael Hambrey

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2002
• HARD COVER
• 280 PAGES

A beautifully illustrated, authoritative 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. (ARC122, $60.00)

Masters of the Arctic Ice

by National Geographic Society

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2007
• DVD

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)

Planet Arctic

by Wayne Lynch

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 240 PAGES

Expedition leader, photographer and colleague, Wayne Lynch presents the "large and legendary" musk oxen and bear, tundra plants, birds, mammals and, of course, polar bears and other marine creatures of the sea ice in this portfolio of 150 striking full-page color photos. (ARC268, $40.00)

Polar Bears

by Ian Stirling

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2011
• PAPER
• 232 PAGES

A tribute to the polar bear by a preeminent researcher, this handsome natural history features outstanding color photographs and detailed chapters on biology, distribution, behavior, study, conservation and lore. (ARC58, $40.00)

Riddle of the Ice, A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic

by Myron Arms

• SCIENCE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 267 PAGES

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

by Richard Sale

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2008
• HARD COVER
• 632 PAGES

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 Last Polar Bear, Facing the Truth of a Warming World

by Steven Kazlowski

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2007
• HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES

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

by Norbert Rosing

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 204 PAGES

Rosing provides all new photography for this paper edition of his sumptuous and informative book, 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. (ARC50, $29.95)

Through the Eyes of the Vikings, An Aerial Vision of Arctic Lands

by Robert B. Haas

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES

In this captivating collection of oversized aerial photographs, Haas (Through the Eyes of the Gods) reveals the surprising diversity of color and life in the arctic landscape. (ARC270, $50.00)

Vanishing World, The Endangered Arctic

by Mireilla De La Lez | Fredrik Granath

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2007
• HARD COVER
• 264 PAGES

Against a dramatic landscape of ice floes and jagged mountains, de la Lez captures spectacular iamges of the polar bears, foxes, walruses, and reindeer that struggle to live in this increasingly vulnerable climate. (ARC203, $40.00)

Smithsonian Handbook: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises

by Mark Carwardine

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2002
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

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)

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