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GREENLAND
Worth Looking For
Arctic Adventure, My Life in the Frozen North
• Peter Freuchen
• Gretel Ehrlich
EXPLORATION •
2002 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
• COMING IN
A showman, explorer and Arctic enthusiast, Freuchen (who played himself in the early MGM movie Eskimo) wrote widely about his exploits in the Arctic. This 1935 memoir, with a new introduction by Gretel Ehrlich, displays his wide-ranging interests, humor and love of the remote north. Freuchen ran a trading post with fellow Norwegian Knud Rasmussusen at Thule in northwest Greenland. He died in Anchorage in 1957.
(ARC133, $17.95) |
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An Illustrated History of the First World War
• John Keegan
HISTORY •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 448 PAGES
• COMING IN
An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War, considerably enhanced by his selection of almost 500 photographs, maps, drawings and illustrations. The visuals clarify and augment his wide-ranging narrative of the origins, battles and consequences of WWI.
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Lonely Planet Greenland and the Arctic
• Deanna Swaney
GUIDEBOOK •
2005 •
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• 336 PAGES
• COMING IN
A comprehensive guide to the circumpolar north, covering Greenland and the Alaskan, the Canadian, the Scandinavian and the Russian Arctic.
(ARC73, $26.99) |
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Driving to Greenland
• Peter Stark
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
• COMING IN
Peter Stark likes the cold. He not only lives in Missoula, but heads further north whenever he gets the chance (or a magazine assignment), albeit usually in the summer. He didn't actually drive to Greenland in the title story but he did make it as far as Yellowknife in a 1973 mini-van piloted by his improbably named father-in-law Rags. From there he and wife Amy scouted private, regularly scheduled and military aircraft to get them to Baffin Island and across Smith Sound to Qaanaaq, Greenland. Whether Stark is at the precipice of the monster ski jump in Iron Mountain, Michigan, squeezed into a kayak with the local Greenlanders or meditating on the properties of snow, he's an alert, adventurous guide with a highly developed sense of irony. Most of these stories originally appeared in Outside magazine, which has produced a stable of terrific writers on natural history and adventure.
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