The Top and Bottom of the World (Rookie Read-About Science) by Children's Press (CT) $20.50
Describes the location, climate, and animal life of the cold regions at either end of the earth.
Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo by Kevin Spacey $24.00
In 1897, American explorer Robert Peary brought Minik Wallace, a young Polar Eskimo, from northwestern Greenland to New York. During his 12 years in America, Minik's adoptive family went from riches to rags, and Minik's own life was shattered by the traumatic discovery of his father's skeleton on display in the American Museum of Natural History. Sent back to Greenland in 1909, Minik had to...
Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North by Univ of Washington Pr $16.95
Arctic Adventure by Ams Pr Inc $76.45
An adventure classic by the famed explorer who lived among the Greenland Inuit. (SEE QUOTE.)
History of Greenland Hb (Vol 1) by C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Antarctica by Abbeville Press $40.00
Fantastic color photographs and illuminating text reveal the beauty of one of the world's last wild places and the hardy creatures that have adapted to it, as well as a history of Antactica and a survey of its various regions, including the peninsula, the ice cap, the ice shelves, and the outlying islands. Finally, there is a profile of the men and women who have established permanent research...
Greenland Mummies (Time Travelers (Twenty First Century)) by 21st Century $25.90
Describes the discovery of mummies in Greenland in 1972 and the work of forensic anthropologists who investigated the remains of these members of the Thule culture, ancestors of today's Eskimos.
Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children $16.00
Alien and wild, the far north has the powerful allure of the unknown, a call explorers have heeded for hundreds of years. First came the search for a route through the polar icecap to the rich lands of Asia. The Northeast and Northwest Passages were painstakingly traced. Then the race was on to one of the remotest points on earth - the North Pole. The desire for knowledge, wealth, adventure, and...
Dark companion;: The story of Matthew Henson, (A Fawcett premier book) by Fawcett Publications
Dark Companion is the only biography written with Matthew Henson, the legendary Arctic explorer who reached the North Pole with Peary in 1909. The author's son has republished it as a tribute to Henson - of whom his father said was "A great man" and his mother added - "...and a Great Spirit".
The Last Kings of Thule: With the Polar Eskimos, As They Face Their Destiny by Adrienne Foulke $17.50
After spending 1950-51 with an isolated group of Eskimos in northern Greenland, sharing their life on the very edge of survival, Jean Malaurie returned with his companions to Thule village to find a U.S. airbase under construction: 'Men who lived by the harpoon found themselves in the atomic age.' When Malaurie traveled back to the Arctic in 1972, the airbase had irreversably transformed the...