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Andreas Umbreit
Bradt Guide Spitsbergen
2009, PAPER, 246 PAGES, $26.99
This excellent introduction to Spitsbergen, Franz Josef
Land and Jan Mayen Island includes an overview of history, wildlife and nature, color photographs and maps. (Item NOR01)

Tony Soper, Dan Powell (Illustrator)
The Arctic, A Guide to Coastal Wildlife
2007, PAPER, 144 PAGES, $21.95
A compact guide to coastal marine mammals and seabirds of the Circumpolar North, featuring handsome watercolor illustrations and lively text. (Item ARC85)

Barry Lopez
Arctic Dreams
2001, PAPER, 417 PAGES, $15.00
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 ARC11)

Ian Stirling, Dan Guravich (Photographer)
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 ARC58)

Ocean Explorer Maps
Spitsbergen Explorer Map
2006, MAP, $11.95
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. (Item ARC88)


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Eyewitness Guides
Eyewitness Guide Norway
2010, PAPER, 304 PAGES, $25.00
This handsome, illustrated guide covers the nature, culture, history and attractions of Norway. (Item NOR29)

Colin Bull
Innocents in the Arctic, The 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition
2007, PAPER, 272 PAGES, $19.95
A marvelous account of scientific adventure in the far
north in 1951, drawn from Bull's field notes, journals and
published reports. (Item ARC176)

Gretel Ehrlich
The Future of Ice, A Journey into Cold
2005, PAPER, 200 PAGES, $13.95
The marvelous Ehrlich (This Cold Heaven) continues her
fascination with out-of-the-way places with this account
of journeys to the ends of the earth, including chapters set in Patagonia and Spitsbergen. The book is not so much about place as the experience of cold. (Item ANT215)

Joanna Kavenna
The Ice Museum, In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
2007, PAPER, 304 PAGES, $15.00
The enchanting account of travels throughout the North,
with chapters on Shetland, Iceland, Estonia, Greenland
and Spitsbergen, all proposed as the Thule of the ancient world. (Item ARC175)

Tim Moore
Frost on My Moustache, The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer
2001, PAPER, 280 PAGES, $16.99
In this inspired folly, a British comic heads to Iceland,
Spitsbergen and other northern locales in pursuit of a
fictitious Arctic hero. (Item ARC74)

P.J. Capelotti (Editor)
The Svalbard Archipelago
2000, PAPER, 180 PAGES, $49.95
A reprint of a WWII-era report on Spitsbergen by U.S.
intelligence, covering the geography, history and geopolitics of the archipelago. With 63 photographs, maps, glossary, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, and an index. (Item ARC91)

Thomas Kirkwood, Geir Finne
The Svalbard Passage
2000, PAPER, 320 PAGES, $15.95
A Cold War thriller lush in the details of its Norwegian
setting. The novel opens with a description and map of
the Arctic archipelago. (Item NOR31)

Derek Hayes
Historical Atlas of the Arctic
2003, HARD COVER, 208 PAGES, $60.00
A handsome collection of 300 striking maps, most in glorious color and many presented here for the first time. Hayes provides captivating, scholarly commentary. (Item ARC135)

Jeanette Mirsky
To the Arctic! The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times
1997, PAPER, 334 PAGES, $17.00
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.
(Item ARC31)

P.J. Capelotti
By Airship to the North Pole, An Archaeology of Human Exploration
1999, HARD COVER, 209 PAGES, $26.00
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. (Item ARC68)

Austin Post, Edward R. LaChapelle
Glacier Ice
2000, PAPER, 145 PAGES, $27.95
A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial
photographs of mountains and glaciers by two devoted
men of ice. Ed LaChapelle’s text is paired with Austin
Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers from Alaska and Chile to Switzerland, the Himalayas and other parts of the world. (Item SCI07)

Kerry Emanuel
What We Know About Climate Change
2007, HARD COVER, 85 PAGES, $14.95
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. (Item GEO46)

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 ARC03)

Richard Sale
A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife
2006, HARD COVER, 464 PAGES, $49.95
This stunning primer features hundreds of spectacular
color photographs, range maps and descriptions of 200
birds and 77 mammals. (Item ARC190)

Frank Todd
Birds & Mammals of the Arctic
PLASTIC CARD, $14.95
This handy, full-color flipchart by veteran polar photographer Todd shows the birds, seals and whales of the circumpolar north. (Item ARC237)

Stephen MacLean
Svalbard, A Guide to Plants in the High Arctic
2010, PAPER, 48 PAGES, $14.95
Designed for the field, this compact guide featuring large color photographs of commonly encountered plants, mosses and lichens of Spitsbergen also includes an overview of the climate and habitats of the High Arctic. (Item ARC266)