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These 5 items are available for $132, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXARC184)

The Arctic, A Guide to Coastal Wildlife  •  Tony Soper  •  Dan Powell FIELD GUIDE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES A compact, illustrated guide to coastal marine mammals and seabirds of the circumpolar north featuring handsome watercolor illustrations by Dan Powell and lively text on the natural history of each species by intrepid expedition leader and bird-lover Tony Soper. An essential handbook for the ship-based traveler. With a brief overview of history, short chapters on plants and invertebrates, and glossary of snow and ice. (ARC85, $21.95)
Arctic Dreams, Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape  •  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, $15.00)
Ninety Degrees North, The Quest for the North Pole  •  Fergus Fleming EXPLORATION •  2003 •  PAPER  • 496 PAGES A thrilling, artfully told chronicle of the mostly 19th-century adventurers, madmen and explorers who quested after the North Pole. A marvelous storyteller, Fergus (who also wrote Barrow's Boys and Killing Dragons) interweaves journal excerpts with his own account of the often fateful exploits of Robert Peary, Frederick Cook. Elisha Kent Kane and other Arctic explorers. Though all the starvation, cold, braggadocio and lies, Fleming communicates with grace, clarity and wit the magnetic attraction of what historian Pierre Berton has called the Arctic Grail. (ARC124, $15.00)
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)

Spitsbergen Explorer Map  •  Ocean Explorer Maps    •  A detailed map of Svalbard at a scale of 1:1,000,000. With illustrated biographies of explorers and a wildlife guide on the reverse. (ARC88, $11.95)
Bradt Guide Spitsbergen  •  Andreas Umbreit   • GUIDEBOOK • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  This excellent introduction to Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen Island includes an overview of history, wildlife and nature, color photographs and maps. (NOR01, $23.95)
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  •  Fridtjof Nansen   • EXPLORATION  •  The great Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen's classic account of the voyage of the Fram, originally published in 1897. His compelling adventure jumps from the page through maps and photographs. (ARC60, $17.95)
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)
Historical Atlas of the Arctic  •  Derek Hayes   • EXPLORATION  •  A handsome collection of 300 striking maps, most in glorious color and many presented here for the first time. Hayes provides captivating, scholarly commentary. (ARC135, $60.00)
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 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, $14.95)
Women of the Four Winds  •  Elizabeth Olds   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A collection of four lively biographies of four 20th-century American explorers. (EXP19, $21.95)
The North Pole, A Narrative History  •  Anthony Brandt   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Anthony Brandt samples the literature of exploration for this anthology. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into three parts: early exploration; the quest for the Northwest Passage; and North Pole journeys. (ARC155, $15.00)
The Navigator of New York  •  Wayne Johnston   • LITERATURE  •  An absorbing novel interweaving details of the real-life race to the North Pole, and the tale of a young man drawn into their world. (ARC127, $15.95)
A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic  •  E.C. Pielou   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Our best-selling book on the Arctic, this guide covers the geography and climate, plants, birds and wildlife of the circumpolar north. (ARC03, $22.00)
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. The text is by Ed LaChapelle, an avalanche researcher, glaciologist, mountaineer, skier, author and professor, who died in 2007 at 80 of a heart attack while on the slopes in Colorado. Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers along the North Pacific Coast of North America and into the interior ranges of Alaska is supplemented with groundbased photographs from the Himalayas, Switzerland, Chile, and other parts of the world. (SCI07, $27.95)
Polar Bears  •  Nikita Ovskynikov   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  This illustrated natural history of the polar bear draws on the author's work on Wrangel Island. (ARC57, $17.95)
Polar Bears  •  Ian Stirling  •  Dan Guravich   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A tribute to the polar bear by a pre-eminent researcher, this handsome natural history features 150 outstanding color photographs by intrepid wildlife photographer Dan Guravich. (ARC58, $29.95)
Poles Apart  •  Galen Rowell   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Noted landscape photographer Galen Rowell turns his attention to the ends of the earth: a gorgeous collection of 188 color photographs with insightful commentary on the story behind each picture. (ANT27, $39.95)
Smithsonian Handbook: 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)