Across Arctic America, Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition  •  Knud Rasmussen EXPLORATION •  1999 •  PAPER  • 415 PAGES • COMING IN A facsimile edition of Rasmussen's 1927 account of a 20,000-mile journey by dogsled across the top of North America. Published in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Fifth Thule Expedition. With black-and-white photographs and maps. (ARC90, $24.95)
Open Lands, Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places  •  Mark Taplin TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 376 PAGES • COMING IN An information officer posted at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1992, Taplin jumped at the chance to visit the regions of Russia suddenly thrown open to the West. Off he goes to gulags, Siberian archipelagos, Kamchatka and Vladivostok in this witty travelogue that mixes journalism, social commentary and history. (RUS62, $18.00)