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	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)
	A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic  •  E.C. Pielou NATURAL HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 327 PAGES A well written primer on Arctic climate, geography, plants, birds, mammals and insects in a single nicely written book. It's a highly recommended, enthusiastic guide to natural history throughout the North -- a good first choice for even the keenest naturalist. With line drawings, charts, and maps. (ARC03, $22.00)
	The Last Gentleman Adventurer, Coming of Age in the Arctic  •  Edward Beauclerk Maurice  •  Lawrence Millman EXPLORATION •  2006 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES Maurice's poignant tale of coming-of-age with the Hudson Bay Company in the Canadian Arctic in the 1930s. Posted to Pangnirtung as a remarkably unlikely 17-year-old recruit, Maurice grew into a man with the fur traders and Inuit of Baffin Island, earning the name of Issumatak (One Who Thinks). The memoir, written 50 years after the fact, shows both immediacy and the wisdom of age. Maurice died at 90 in 2003, just as the book was being readied. (ARC173, $14.95)
	Arctic Dreams  •  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)
	Arctic and Antarctica Map  •   British Antarctic Survey 2007 •  MAP Published in conjunction with the International Polar Year, this beautifully rendered, double-sided map shows both the top and bottom of the world at a scale of 1:10,000,000. With bathymetry, geographic features, research stations and notes. Series BAS (IPY) Sheet 1 by the British Antarctic Survey. (ANT266, $17.95)

	Lonely Planet Greenland and the Arctic  •  Deanna Swaney   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to the circumpolar north, covering Greenland and the Alaskan, the Canadian, the Scandinavian and the Russian Arctic. (ARC73, $26.99)
	The Eskimos  •  Ernest S. Burch, Jr.   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A beautifully illustrated, authoritative portrait of diverse peoples, cultures and landscapes of the circumpolar north with a focus on the Eskimo peoples of Alaska. (ARC165, $19.95)
	Uqalurait, An Oral History of Nunavut  •  John Bennett  •  Susan Rowley   • HISTORY  •  A history of the people of Nunavut in their own words, drawing on accounts of early exploration, interviews and traditional tales. (ARC169, $85.00)
	Ancient People of the Arctic  •  Robert McGhee   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  In this nicely illustrated overview of the Paleo-Eskimos, Robert McGhee, an archaeologist, brings vibrantly to life North America's first settlers and their culture. (ARC163, $32.95)
	Call of the North, An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole  •  Andre Malaurie   • EXPLORATION  •  A handsome, oversize memoir and celebration of the Inuit by the French polar explorer (Last Kings of Thule), featuring 300 of Malaurie's color photographs spanning 50 years in the Arctic. Malaurie became the first Frenchman to reach the Pole by dogsled in 1951. (ARC109, $60.00)
	Cold Comfort, My Love Affair with the Arctic  •  Graham Rowley   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A warm account of a cold land, this memoir of an archaeologist on the west coast of Baffin Island, and his work in the field before WWII, is also a tribute to people and places on the brink of change in the North. (ARC67, $29.95)
	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)
	High Latitudes, An Arctic Journey  •  Farley Mowat   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A chronicle of Mowat's hopscotch across the Canadian Arctic in 1966 on behalf of the Canadian government. In high spirits, Mowat encounters and interviews an eccentric cast of characters throughout the north. (ARC141, $15.95)
	North to the Night, A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic  •  Alvah Simon   • EXPLORATION  •  A well crafted tale of adventures in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland aboard a 36-foot sailing yacht, including most memorably a solo winter frozen in the sea ice off Bylot Island. (ARC97, $14.95)
	The Last Imaginary Place  •  Robert McGhee   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, McGhee combines a lifetime of field work, ethnography and travel in this illuminating account of the human history of the Arctic. (ARC164, $18.00)
	To the Arctic, The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times  •  Jeanette Mirsky   • EXPLORATION  •  Mirsky recounts tales of Arctic exploration, from the Dutch discovery of Spitsbergen to the search for Franklin and the quest for the North Pole in this classic history. (ARC31, $17.00)
	Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North  •  Jean Malaurie   • EXPLORATION  •  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. (ARC123, $75.00)
	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. Stirling intersperses polar bear biology, distribution, behavior and study with snippets of Inuit legend and hoary tales of fieldwork across the Arctic. (ARC58, $29.95)
	What We Know About Climate Change  •  Kerry Emanuel   • SCIENCE  •  With the power of a polished lecturer, Emanuel brilliantly lays out the issues, causes and concern about the fate of our climate in plain language in this illuminating essay, as balanced as it is lucid. This is the book to read. (GEO46, $14.95)
	A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife: Marine Mammals, Seabirds, Fish and Other Sea Life  •  Noble S. Proctor  •  Patrick J. Lynch   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive pocket guide to commonly encountered marine mammals, seabirds and other marine life of Northeastern North America, from North Carolina to Newfoundland and the Canadian Maritimes. (NAM24, $19.95)

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