Suggested Reading

All of the following books may be purchased through Longitude Books (800) 342-2164, www.longitudebooks.com, which offers discounts to Cruise North passengers.

Here is a brief selection of favourite, new and hard-to-find books, prepared for your journey. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164 to order these books directly from Longitude, a specialty mail-order book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive selection of books for your voyage, go directly to reading.longitudebooks.com/ME22186.

ESSENTIAL

These 4 items are available as a set for $65 including shipping, 15% off the retail price (Item EXARC250). Free shipping on any additional books ordered.

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)

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)

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 watercolour illustrations and lively text. (Item ARC85)

ITMB
Circumpolar North / Greenland Map
2009, MAP, $9.95
This map features the Canada Map Office’s stunning North Circumpolar region one side and a detailed map of Greenland on the other. (Item ARC111)

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Canada Map Office
Northwest Territories and Yukon and Nunavut
2000, MAP, $19.95
A full-colour rolled map of Northern and Arctic Canada, covering the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut a scale of 1:4 million. (Item CND280)

Deanna Swaney
Lonely Planet Greenland and the Arctic
2005, PAPER, 336 PAGES, $26.99
A comprehensive guide to the circumpolar north, covering Greenland and the Alaskan, the Canadian, the Scandinavian and the Russian Arctic. (Item ARC73)

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 colour 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)

Zacharias Kunuk (Director)
Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)
2003, DVD, $27.96
This epic, filmed in the Canadian Arctic with Inuit actors, brings a powerful Inuit legend to the screen. (Item ARC216)

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

Ingo Hessel, Dieter Hessel (Photographer)
Inuit Art, An Introduction
2003, PAPER, 198 PAGES, $40.00
A history, survey and guide to appreciating Inuit drawings, prints, textiles and sculpture with 125 colour photographs. (Item ARC142)

Owen Beattie, John Geiger
Frozen in Time, The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
2004, PAPER, 185 PAGES, $22.95
An exhaustive examination of the evidence surrounding the disappearance of the Franklin Expedition. Beattie and Geiger, a forensic anthropologist and historian, build a credible tale of the disappearance of the expedition. (Item ARC81)

Gretel Ehrlich
This Cold Heaven
2003, PAPER, 400 PAGES, $14.95
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 ARC107)

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)

Edward Beauclerk Maurice, Lawrence Millman (Introduction)
The Last Gentleman Adventurer, Coming of Age in the Arctic
2006, PAPER, 416 PAGES, $14.95
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). (Item ARC173)

Andrea Barrett
The Voyage of the Narwhal
1999, PAPER, 416 PAGES, $14.00
A gripping work of historical imagination in the form of a 19th-century account of Arctic exploration. It’s Barrett’s evocative tale of a Philadelphia naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells who sets out on a foolhardy mission in search of the Franklin Expedition in the Canadian Arctic. (Item ARC40)

Paul Nicklen
Polar Obsession
2009, HARD COVER, 240 PAGES, $50.00
In this extraordinary book, Nickel captures, sometimes in alarming close-up, polar bears in the water and on the ice, dueling narwhals, humpbacks, walruses, penguins and all manner of marine life. With chapters on Admiralty Inlet, Spitsbergen, the Antarctic Peninsula and South Georgia. (Item ANT305)

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

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)

Anthony Brandt
The Man Who Ate His Boots, The History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
2010, HARD COVER, 448 PAGES, $28.95
The enthralling tale of the adventurers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage, holy grail of 19th-century British exploration. (Item ARC246)

Glyn Williams
Arctic Labyrinth, The Quest for the Northwest Passage
2010, HARD COVER, 464 PAGES, $34.95
Drawing on letters, archives and explorers accounts, Williams charts the full sweep of this extraordinary history of discovery. (Item ARC254)

James P. Delgado
Across the Top of the World, The Quest for the Northwest Passage
2009, PAPER, 224 PAGES, $19.95
Delgado, a marine archaeologist, presents hundreds of paintings, engravings and photos, archival and modern, in this richly illustrated history of the quest for the Northwest Passage. (Item ARC61)

Will Ferguson
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw
2005, PAPER, 368 PAGES, $14.95
Ferguson (Why I Hate Canadians) dredges up odd characters and amusing icons of Canadian history on his erratic travels across Canada from the west coast, across prairies to Churchill and its famous polar bears, culminating with a visit to the Viking site at L’Anse aux Meadows. (Item CND236)

Eric Wahlgren
The Vikings and America
2000, PAPER, 192 PAGES, $18.95
An insightful account of the Vikings’ discovery and exploration of America, based on archaeology and the ancient sagas. With site diagrams and black-and-white photographs throughout. (Item VIK12)

William Fitzhugh (Editor), Elisabeth Ward (Editor)
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 colour photographs. (Item VIK11)

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