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Essential Books These 3 items are available for $101, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXARC195)		  
Farthest North  •  Fridtjof Nansen
EXPLORATION •  2008 •  PAPER  • 678 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)		   Farthest North
Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North  •  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. 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)		   Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North
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

A Fabulous Kingdom, Exploration in the Arctic  •  Charles Officer  •  Jake Page   • EXPLORATION  •  A short history of Arctic exploration from Pythagoras to Nansen, Amundsen, and Peary. (ARC136, $19.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
By Airship to the North Pole, An Archaeology of Human Exploration  •  P.J. Capelotti   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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, $15.95)
 		  
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, $19.99)
 		  
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 Welles's Mercury Theater. (ARC138, $27.95)
 		  
Matthew A. Henson's Historic Arctic Journey  •  Matthew Henson  •  Deirdre Stam   • EXPLORATION  •  This Explorer's Club edition of Matthew Henson's polar exploits, originally published in 1912, includes a thoughtful overview of his life by editor Deirdre Stam and period photographs. Drawing on the Explorer's Club archives, it is published in commemoration of the centennial of Peary and Hanson's 1909 quest for the Pole. (ARC113, $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)
 		  
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)
 		  
Polar Wives  •  Kari Herbert   • EXPLORATION  •  Eva Nansen, Jane Franklin, Emily Shackleton, Kathleen Scott and her own mother Marie Herbert are included in this group biography. (ANT363, $18.95)
 		  
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, $42.50)
 		  
The Gates of Hell, Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage  •  Andrew Lambert   • EXPLORATION  •  In this re-examination of the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage, Lambert shows the savvy, stamina and navigational acumen of the great explorer. (ARC249, $22.00)
 		  
The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk  •  Jennifer Niven   • EXPLORATION  •  Nivens draws on diaries, journals and letters to reconstruct, month by month, the tragic fate of the ambitious Canadian Arctic Expedition in 1913-1918. Eleven men died. The charismatic, scene-stealing Stefannson (who blamed Captain Bob Bartlett and leaves the ship as soon as it is trapped in the ice) gets a good drubbing by Niven. (ARC130, $19.95)
 		  
The Man Who Ate His Boots  •  Anthony Brandt   • EXPLORATION  •  The enthralling tale of the adventurers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage, holy grail of 19th-century British exploration. (ARC246, $16.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane  •  Ken McGoogan   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  McGoogan'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, $15.95)
 		  
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, $22.95)
 		  
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras  •  Jules Verne   • LITERATURE  •  The first new translation of ever-popular adventure writer Jules Verne's thrilling novel of polar exploration in over a century. (ARC233, $15.95)
 		  
 
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