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  • The Beginning (storey 1 of 40)

    Fort Norman, N.W.T., Canada

    Series Book 1 - The White Girl
    I am a little girl. My feet stick out in front of me on the worn green leather seat. Across from me on a duplicate seat that turns in to face mine, are my three younger brothers. I snuggle deeper into my fake fur coat. It is the most beautiful coat I have ever owned. It is blinding white in colour with a big shawl type collar that hides my nose if I want it to; my grandfather says that I look like ... Read more

    Free

  • The South Pole

    An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

    Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the Pole first, but—due to poor preparation and miscalculation—died with the rest of his party on their return trip. The South Pole remains one of the greatest and most ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Understanding Disability Throughout History

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936

    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively.The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally considered to have taken place from 874 to 930, until the 1936 Law on Social Security (Lög um almannatryggingar) ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    Antarctica, 1910-1913

    In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to Antarctica. Not all of them would return. Written by one of its survivors, The Worst Journey in the World tells the moving and dramatic story of the disastrous Scott expedition. Driven by an obsession for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition

    Lost and Found

    In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage – the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph but the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and the 129 men aboard them disappeared in the Arctic. The last Europeans to see them alive were the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic

    Edited by T. Max Friesen, Owen K. Mason ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limited range of resources, and remoteness from populated areas. Despite these factors, it holds a complex and lengthy history relating to Inuit, I?upiat, Inuvialuit, Yup'ik and Aleut peoples and their ancestors. The artifacts, dwellings, and food remains of these ancient peoples are ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Vilhjalmur Stefansson

    Arctic Adventurer

    by Tom Henighan ...
    Series Book 23 - Quest Biography
    Born in Manitoba of Icelandic parents, Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) became one of Canada’s most famous and controversial Arctic explorers. After graduate studies in anthropology at Harvard University, Stefansson lived with and studied Inuit in the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories in the winter of 1906-07. In two subsequent expeditions he completed a major anthropological ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unfreezing the Arctic

    Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands

    by Andrew Stuhl ...
    This account of a region transformed—and threatened—offers “a timely historical reflection on the important social role of science and scientists.”—Historical GeographyIn recent years, environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, many commentators mislabel them as ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic

    The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century

    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic: “The history is fascinating.” —Anchorage Daily NewsIn the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world’s harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lost Beneath the Ice

    The Story of HMS Investigator

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left England in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert McClure. While the ambitious McClure never found Franklin, he and his crew did discover the fabled Northwest Passage.Like Franklin’s ships, though, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ships of Wood and Men of Iron

    A Norwegian-Canadian Saga of Exploration in the High Arctic

    by Gerard Kenney ...
    In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter. Winters there can be dangerous with temperatures that plunge to awesome depths during the long, lonely hours of Arctic darkness. Powerful blizzards shriek across the land for days at a time, causing all animal life to seek shelter ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Karluk's Last Voyage

    An Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic

    “We did not all come back.” Thus begins the rare firsthand account of the extraordinary ordeal of the Karluk, the flagship of explorer Vilhjalmar Stefansson’s Arctic expedition of 1913-1916. When ice trapped the Karluk, Stefansson abandoned Captain Robert A. Bartlett and the crew—eleven of whom perished—to their fate.When the ice crushed the Karluk and sank her, Bartlett led the shipwrecked ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Norse Greenland

    A Controlled Experiment in Collapse--A Selection from Collapse (Penguin Tracks)

    by Jared Diamond ...
    A timely and fascinating exploration of the collapse of prehistoric Norse society in Greenland—excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond’s CollapseThis excerpt from the New York Times–bestselling book Collapse takes a timely and fascinating look at prehistoric Norse Greenland—the closest approximation of a controlled experiment in collapse in history. One island, two unique ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Inuit Education and Schools in the Eastern Arctic

    This book will be welcomed by educators, administrators, and researchers in Inuit and First Nations communities across the North and anyone interested in the history of education in Canada. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Empire of Extinction

    Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867

    In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and re-crossed the Bering Strait and the North Pacific Ocean, establishing colonies in Kamchatka and Alaska and exporting marine mammal furs to ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Bloody Falls of the Coppermine

    Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands

    by Mckay Jenkins ...
    In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place where the Coppermine River dumps into the Arctic Ocean ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Shipwreck at Cape Flora

    The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer

    Series Book 16 - Northern Lights
    Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727 Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Polar Wives

    The Remarkable Women behind the World's Most Daring Explorers

    by Kari Herbert ...
    The lives and adventures of seven intrepid women are revealed in “this gem of a book . . . as captivating as the northern landscape itself” (Portland Book Review).Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In Polar Wives, Kari Herbert reveals the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven remarkable women whose ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Here Comes the Sun, It's Alright (storey 32 of 40)

    Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada

    Series Book 32 - The White Girl
    Hi Ho, Hi Ho it’s off to school we go! Grace’s Uncle Allen shows up at our house with kids in tow. He has devised a system that enables all of the school kids who live by the Arctic Ocean to get to their classes safely and on time!Our hours of operation have changed. In an experiment, the teachers have decided that maybe school should run from noon to five P.M. In the shortest of days during a ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • Myths and Legends of Alaska (Illustrations)

    Example in this ebook   THE RAVEN MYTH Eskimo (Bering Straits) It was in the time when there were no people on the earth plain. The first man for four days lay coiled up in the pod of the beach pea. On the fifth day he stretched out his feet and burst the pod. He fell to the ground and when he stood up he was a full-grown man. Man looked all around him and then at himself. He moved his hands and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • White Eskimo

    Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic

    Series series A Merloyd Lawrence Book
    Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit, Rasmussen made a courageous three-year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska to reveal the common origins of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Iceland Watch

    A Land That Thinks Outwards and Forwards

    With a population of just 329,000 (barely more than Nottingham), Iceland is the most thinly-populated country in Europe, and 80% of it is uninhabited. Despite this, in the 1100 years since humans first settled there, the Icelanders have built a remarkably resourceful, diverse and robust community - and they have never had to go to war. In fact, in 2013 the United Nations ranked Iceland the 13th ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Life Among the Qallunaat

    Series Book 3 - First Voices, First Texts
    Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman’s movement between worlds and ways of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The North Pole, Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

    This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSIntroductionForewordI The PlanII PreparationsIII The StartIV Up to Cape YorkV Welcome from the EskimosVI An Arctic OasisVII Odd Customs of an Odd PeopleVIII Getting RecruitsIX A Walrus HuntX Knocking at the Gateway to the PoleXI Close Quarters with the IceXII The Ice Fight Goes O... ... Read more

    $2.69 USD