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	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)
	Farthest North  •  Fridtjof Nansen EXPLORATION •  2008 •  PAPER  • 687 PAGES The great Norwegian explorer Fridjof Nansen recounts his adventures in the Arctic in this classic memoir, originally published in 1897. He describes the design and building of his ingenious ship, the "Fram" (which is still on display in Oslo), his drift across the icy wasteland, his six-month-long sledge journey with Johansen (where they reached farthest north before turning back), and his final dash across the ice floes to Franz Joseph Land, where they overwintered before being picked up by a passing British expedition. It's quite a tale, illustrated with maps and photographs. (ARC60, $17.95)
	Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North  •  Andre 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. Covering the years from 1818 to 2000, Malaurie portrays the people, traditions and life of the Men of the North in detail. Paying close attention to the impact on the local cultures, Malaurie also includes Inuit witnesses and commentary. The collection of archival photographs showcased in the book is extraordinary. With a final chapter on Thule 2000. (ARC123, $75.00)
	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)

	A Fabulous Kingdom, Exploration in the Arctic  •  Charles Officer  •  Jake Page   • EXPLORATION • OUT OF PRINT  •  A short history of Arctic exploration from Pythagoras to Nansen, Amundsen, and Peary. (ARC136, $25.00)
	A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson  •  Matthew Henson  •  S. Allen Counter   • EXPLORATION  •  A handsome edition of Henson's 1912 memoir recounting his polar exploits, and two-decade-long association with Robert Peary. With 50 nicely reproduced period photographs. (ARC113, $14.95)
	Arctic Superstars  •  William Putnam   • EXPLORATION  •  An American Alpine Club centennial celebration of Adolphus Greely and George Melville. (ARC144, $19.95)
	By Airship to the North Pole, An Archaeology of Human Exploration  •  P.J. Capelotti   • EXPLORATION  •  A history of Salomon Andree, Charles Wellman and the first attempts to reach the North Pole by airship. This book includes a detailed archaeological analysis of the aerial polar base camps in Spitsbergen. (ARC68, $26.00)
	Cook and Peary, The Polar Controversy Resolved  •  Robert M. Bryce   • EXPLORATION  •  A massive and massively detailed book, the most thorough examination yet of Peary and Cook's competing claims to have been the first-ever at the North Pole. (ARC44, $50.00)
	Disaster at the Pole, The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole  •  Wilbur Cross   • EXPLORATION  •  A thrilling account of the crash of the airship Italia in 1928 and the political aftermath in an increasingly fascist Europe. (ARC84, $24.95)
	Farthest North, A History of North Polar Exploration in Eyewitness Accounts  •  Clive Holland   • EXPLORATION  •  An anthology of eyewitness accounts, this book excerpts the memoirs and adventure tales of Peary, Franklin, de Long, Nansen and other great polar explorers in search of the North Pole. (ARC55, $12.95)
	Fatal Passage, The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot  •  Ken McGoogan   • EXPLORATION  •  A compelling biography of the Scottish explorer who pioneered Inuit methods, completed the Northwest Passage and found Franklin. (ARC118, $14.00)
	Four Against the Arctic, Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World  •  David Roberts   • EXPLORATION  •  Roberts pieces together the gripping tale of four Russian walrus hunters stranded on Svalbard. (ARC210, $14.00)
	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, $13.95)
	Frozen in Time, The Fate of the Franklin Expedition  •  Owen Beattie  •  John Geiger   • EXPLORATION  •  An exhaustive examination of the evidence surrounding the disappearance of the Franklin Expedition. Beattie and Geiger, a forensic anthropologist and historian, build a credible tale of the disappearance of the expedition. (ARC81, $22.95)
	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)
	In the Land of White Death, An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic  •  Valerian Albanov  •  David Roberts  •  Jon Krakauer   • EXPLORATION  •  A Russian sailor trapped aboard a ship in the ice sets out over the pack for Franz Josef Land. (SIB16, $14.95)
	My Attainment of the Pole  •  Frederick A. Cook  •  Robert Bryce   • EXPLORATION  •  Cook's original, and much disputed, account of his expedition to the North Pole. This edition includes several new assessments of the dispute whether he ever made it to the Pole. (ARC100, $19.95)
	Nansen  •  Roland Huntford   • EXPLORATION  •  The centerpiece of Huntford's masterful biography of the polar explorer is the gripping account of the drift of the Fram -- and Nansen's epic trek across the ice to Franz Josef Land. (ARC121, $29.95)
	North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo  •  S. Allen Counter   • EXPLORATION  •  A biography and reconsideration of Matt Henson. (ARC114, $14.95)
	Off the Map, Tales of Endurance and Exploration  •  Fergus Fleming   • EXPLORATION  •  Master storyteller Fleming (Killing Dragons, Ninety Degrees North) recounts 43 tales of adventure, both well-known and obscure, in this wonderfully diverse sampling. He opens with the exploits of Marco Polo and the Mongol Empire, moving briskly through the centuries up to Albert Nobile's fateful attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. (EXP36, $16.00)
	Polar Journeys, The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration  •  Robert Feeney   • EXPLORATION  •  This is the book for anyone who has ever wondered about hoosh, pemmican and all the other makings of the early explorers' diets. The author, a biochemist, looks at the nutrition and diet of explorers, linking developments in food preservation techniques to the history of polar exploration. (ANT107, $27.95)
	Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane  •  Tim Pat Coogan   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Coogan's engrossing biography of the supremely literate explorer who forged a unique, life-saving alliance with the Inuit, discovered "the American route to the North Pole" and most famously, led an daring escape in sleds and small boats from his ship trapped in the ice. (ARC209, $28.00)
	Resolute  •  Martin Sandler   • EXPLORATION  •  This gripping history of quest for the Northwest passage tells the story of the Resolute, the missing men of the Franklin expedition and the massive (and unsuccessful) relief effort that ensued. (ARC193, $14.95)
	Skyward, Man's Mastery of the Air  •  Richard E. Byrd   • EXPLORATION  •  Admiral Bryd's chronicle of a life in aviation, originally published in 1928. (ARC87, $14.95)
	The Coldest Crucible, Arctic Exploration and American Culture  •  Michael F. Robinson   • EXPLORATION  •  A cultural history of the emblematic voyages, often military, of Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Hall, Adolphus Greely, Walter Wellman, Robert Peary, Frederick Cook and other 19th-century American adventurers. (ARC189, $39.00)
	The Franz Josef Land Archipelago, E. B. Baldwin's Journal of the Wellman Polar Expedition, 1898-1899  •  E.B. Baldwin  •  P.J. Capelotti   • EXPLORATION  •  The previously unpublished journal of Arctic explorer Evelyn Briggs Baldwin (1862-1933), second in command on the first American expedition to Franz Josef Land. (ARC146, $49.95)
	The Horizontal Everest, Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island  •  Jerry Kobalenko   • EXPLORATION • OUT OF PRINT  •  A warm tribute to a very remote, cold place. Kobalenko combines tales of personal adventure, history and rumination with a handsome collection of photographs. (ARC115, $15.00)
	The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk  •  Jennifer Niven   • EXPLORATION  •  A well-researched and detailed account of the ambitious Canadian Arctic Expedition. Nivens draws on diaries, journals and letters to reconstruct, month by month, the explorers' tragic fate in the Russian Arctic surrounding Wrangel Island. (ARC130, $14.95)
	The North Pole  •  Robert E. Peary  •  Robert Bryce   • EXPLORATION  •  A reprint of the original, and much disputed, account of Peary's 1909 journey to the North Pole. Robert Bryce provides the introduction for this new edition, setting the controversy in historical context. (ARC99, $22.95)
	To the Top of the Continent  •  Frederick A. Cook   • EXPLORATION  •  The 90th anniversary edition of the much-debated account by Frederick Cook of his first-ever ascent of Mount McKinley (1903-1906). (ALA83, $19.95)
	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)
	Afterlands, A Novel  •  Steven Heighton   • LITERATURE  •  In this ambitious, beautifully written second novel, Heighton re-imagines the fate of Charles Francis Hall's disastrous 1871 Polaris expedition. (ARC183, $14.95)
	The Discovery of Slowness  •  Sten Nadolny  •  Ralph Freedman   • LITERATURE  •  An inventive fictional biography of the 19th century polar explorer Sir John Franklin (also governor of Tasmania), who disappeared on a voyage to the Canadian Arctic. (ARC59, $16.95)

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