Arctic Reading Guide

Arctic Memories: Living with the Inuit
Fred Bruemmer
CULTURAL PORTRAIT · 1994 · 160 PAGES
Over the past decades, Canadian photographer and naturalist Bruemmer has traveled and lived throughout the Arctic. This handsomely produced book of photographs recounts his time among the Inuit of Canada, a revealing, personal and wonderfully illustrated tribute to the North.

The Arctic: A Guide to Coastal Wildlife
Tony Soper
FIELD GUIDE · 2001 · 144 PAGES
A compact, illustrated guide to the commonly encountered marine mammals and seabirds of coastal areas throughout the circumpolar north. With watercolor illustrations by Dan Powell and text by intrepid expedition leader Tony Soper. It includes introductory chapters on Arctic history and nature.

A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic
E.C. Pielou
NATURAL HISTORY · 1994 · 327 PAGES
A broad introduction to Arctic climate, geography, plants, birds, mammals and insects in a single illustrated volume, the result of a popular undergraduate course given by the author. It's a highly recommended, enthusiastic guide to natural history throughout the North - a good first choice for even the keenest naturalist.

North Pole, South Pole: Journeys to the Ends of the Earth
Bertrand Imbert
EXPLORATION · 1992 · 192 PAGES
An indispensable reference that fits in your pocket. Part of the lavishly illustrated "Discoveries" series, this compact volume features hundreds of maps, historic photographs and journal excerpts. With at least a few paragraphs on all the great expeditions, we refer to it often.

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
Barry Lopez
NATURAL HISTORY · 1987 · 417 PAGES
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. The book includes extended chapters on the polar bear and narwhal.

North Circumpolar Region
Canada Map Office
2000 · MAP
A bird's-eye view of the top of the world, showing the Arctic Ocean and all the lands of the far north, including the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, Siberia, Northern Europe, and Greenland.

The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World
Robert McGhee
HISTORY · 2004 · 274 PAGES
The Last Imaginary Place depicts the peoples of the Arctic as having an extraordinary human history that is as long and dynamic as most other regions of the world. From the Ice Age to the arduous searches for sea-passages to the north of Asia and America, to the end of the Cold War and the emergence of advanced transportation, communication technologies and aboriginal rights movements, this book offers an enlightening look at one of the most culturally rich and fascinating areas of the world.

The Other Side of Eden
Hugh Brody
MEMOIR, ADVENTURE STORY AND VOYAGE · 1943 · 374 PAGES
The Other Side of Eden begins in the High Arctic of the 1970's. This was where Hugh Brody first lived with hunting peoples, and where he encountered a way of being that would transform how he saw the world. In this marvellous book - part memoir, part adventure story, part intellectual voyage- Brody's travels also through time and space, exploring the divide between hunters and farmers that lies at the core of human history.

The Arctic Grail
Pierre Burton
EXPLORATION · 1920 · 672 PAGES
Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole.

1998 Nunavut Handbook
Nunavut
TRAVEL GUIDE · 1997 · 366 PAGES
The Nunavut Handbook is a nicely packaged guide to the people and the wildlife of Canada's Eastern Arctic, one of the last great untouched, wilderness areas on our great planet.