Essential
These 4 items are available as a package for $66 including shipping, 15% off the retail price (Item no. EXGRN7). Any additional books ordered are shipped free.

Tony Soper, Dan Powell
The Arctic, A Guide to Coastal Wildlife
2007, PAPER, 144 PAGES, $21.95
This compact guide to coastal marine mammals and seabirds of the Circumpolar North features handsome watercolor illustrations and lively text. (Item no. ARC85)

Gretel Ehrlich
This Cold Heaven
2003, PAPER, 400 PAGES, $18.95
Ehrlich spent seven seasons in Greenland, mostly alone, traveling by boat, helicopter, plane and dogsled. This exhilarating book reflects her insight, knowledge and deep appreciation of the people and barren landscapes of the
north. (Item no. ARC107)

Jane Smiley
The Greenlanders
2005, PAPER, 608 PAGES, $15.95
This marvelously researched novel recreates life in the Viking settlements in Greenland. (Item no. ARC08)

ITMB
Circumpolar North / Greenland Map
2009, MAP, $12.95
With the North Circumpolar region on one side, including
Iceland, and a detailed map of Greenland on the other. (Item no. ARC111)

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Ocean Explorer Maps
Greenland Explorer Map
2007, MAP, $11.95
This full color map (1: 3,250,000) includes a timeline, wildlife guide, history and illustrated biographies of notable people on the reverse. (Item no. ARC212)

Rockwell Kent, Edward Hoagland
N by E
1996, PAPER, 282 PAGES, $19.95
The classic account of a 1929 sailing voyage from Labrador to Greenland, illustrated with wood-block prints by the author on every other page. (Item no. ARC35)

William Fitzhugh, Elisabeth Ward
Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga
2000, PAPER, 432 PAGES, $34.95
An extensively illustrated volume of Viking culture, history and exploration that focuses especially on voyages to North America. Published in conjunction with a Smithsonian exhibit, it features essays and 400 color photographs. (Item
no. VIK11)

Jean Malaurie
Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North
2003, HARD COVER, 399 PAGES, $75.00
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. (Item no. ARC123)

Hans Egede
Journal in Greenland, 1770-1778
2009, PAPER, 302 PAGES, $19.95
A new pocket edition of the firsthand account of the land, people and history of Greenland by grandson of the beloved missionary and founder of Nuuk (Item no. ARC226)

Barry Lopez
Arctic Dreams
2001, PAPER, 417 PAGES, $16.00
A dazzling meditation on the Arctic, breathtaking in scope. Lopez draws on his travels throughout the North, including Baffin Island, the Chukchi and Bering Seas, Alaska, the Yukon and Greenland, interweaving natural history,
accounts of early exploration, anecdote and lore into an indelible portrait of place. (Item no. ARC11)

Jared Diamond
Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
2011, PAPER, 575 PAGES, $18.00
Diamond tackles nothing less than the history and fate of civilization in this compelling book in which he offers case studies, present and past, of societies that work and societies that do not, devoting 100 carefully reasoned pages, for
example, to the fate of the Norse settlements in Greenland (climatic change, Inuit) and another big section on Easter Island (deforestation, hubris). This revised edition includes a new afterword. (Item no. GEN324)

Knud Rasmussen
Inuit Folk-Tales
2009, PAPER, 303 PAGES, $19.95
This pocket edition of 50 tales of daily, world view and mythology were collected by the great Rasmussen along the whole west coast of Greenland at the turn of the last century.
(Item no. ARC227)

John Griesemer
No One Thinks of Greenland
2002, PAPER, 320 PAGES, $15.00
The Allies secret WWII army base in Greenland serves as inspiration for this tale of mysterious goings-on during the Korean War. (Item no. ARC149)

Rockwell Kent
Salamina
2003, PAPER, 376 PAGES, $22.95
A warm account of adventures in Greenland circa 1931, featuring portraits of the people encountered (including the title heroine) and pen-and-ink illustrations by the sailor, adventurer and illustrator. (Item no. ARC143)

Tete-Michel Kpomassie, James Kirkup
An African in Greenland
2001, PAPER, 300 PAGES, $14.95
A memorable account of the odyssey of West African author from his home in Togo to Paris, Denmark and, ultimately, Greenland. (Item no. ARC110)

Myron Arms
Riddle of the Ice, A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic
1999, PAPER, 267 PAGES, $12.95
An account of a 1991 scientific expedition to study climate change, including sailing voyage from Newfoundland across the Davis Strait to Greenland aboard a 50-foot sloop. (Item no. ARC93)

E.C. Pielou
A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic
1994, PAPER, 327 PAGES, $22.00
Our best-selling book on the Arctic, this guide covers the geography and climate, plants, birds and wildlife of the circumpolar north. (Item no. ARC03)

Ian Stirling, Dan Guravich
Polar Bears
1998, PAPER, 232 PAGES, $29.95
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. (Item no. ARC58)

Kirsten Seaver
The Frozen Echo, Greenland and the Exploration of North America, 1000-1500
1997, PAPER, 407 PAGES, $30.95
A scholarly account of Norse settlements in Greenland and Canada -- the best analysis of the subject to be published in decades. (Item no. ARC76)