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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $111, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXARC266)		  
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)		   Historical Atlas of the Arctic
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)		   A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic
Arctic Dreams  •  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, $16.00)		   Arctic Dreams
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)		   North Circumpolar Region



Also Recommended

Circumpolar North / Greenland Map  •  ITMB    •  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  •  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, $1.00)
 		  
Bradt Guide 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, $24.99)
 		  
Who Owns the Arctic?, Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North  •  Michael Byers   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Juha Nurminen   • EXPLORATION  •  The ancient Inuit, Vikings, Vitus Bering, whalers, explorers and James Cook are all paid tribute in this sumptuously illustrated history, drawing on the collections of Helsinki's Nurminen Foundation. (ARC257, $60.00)
 		  
Arctic Labyrinth, The Quest for the Northwest Passage  •  Glyn Williams   • EXPLORATION  •  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)
 		  
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, $22.95)
 		  
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 Last Gentleman Adventurer  •  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 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, $14.95)
 		  
Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North  •  Jean 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)
 		  
Frost on My Moustache, The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer  •  Tim Moore   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  In this inspired folly, a British comic heads to Iceland, Spitsbergen and other northern locales in pursuit of a fictitious Arctic hero. (ARC74, $16.99)
 		  
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, $17.95)
 		  
The Last Imaginary Place  •  Robert McGhee   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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)
 		  
Near Death in the Arctic  •  Ceci Kuhne   • LITERATURE  •  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 Sagas of Icelanders  •  Jane Smiley  •  Robert Kellog   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 		  
After the Ice  •  Alun Anderson   • SCIENCE  •  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  •  Michael Poliza   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Arnoldus Blix   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A textbook and illustrated overview of Arctic ecology, featuring 200 color photographs. (ARC231, $63.00)
 		  
Arctic Eden  •  Jerry Kobalenko   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Jerry Kobalenko   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Garry Hamilton   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A gorgeously photographed celebration of the remarkable arctic fox, its ecology and habitat. (ARC217, $39.95)
 		  
Arctic Kingdom, Life at the Edge  •  National Geographic Society   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  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. 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  •  Julian Dowdeswell  •  Michael Hambrey   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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)
 		  
Planet Arctic  •  Wayne Lynch   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Ian Stirling   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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)
 		  
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 Last Polar Bear, Facing the Truth of a Warming World  •  Steven 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   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Robert B. Haas   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Mireilla De La Lez  •  Fredrik Granath   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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)
 		  
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)
 		  
 
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