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  • White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic

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

    by John R. Bockstoce ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Overland to Starvation Cove

    With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880

    by Heinrich Klutschak, William Barr ...
    Series series Heritage
    In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men.Overland to ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes

    Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883–84)

    Edited by Bernd Gieseking, Ludguer Müller-Wille ...
    Told from an ordinary man's perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas—the father of modern anthropology—on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides a plain, direct view of the Inuit and the whalers in their arctic environment at the end of the 19th century. With invaluable contextual ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes

    Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84)

    by Ludwig Müller-Wille, Bernd Gieseking ...
    Translated by William Barr ...
    Wilhelm Weike, a 23-year old handyman from Minden/Germany, accidentally found himself spending the year of 1883-84 among Inuit and wintering with whalers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. The fledgling scientist Franz Boas (1858-1942), later the eminent cultural anthropologist, hired Weike to attend to and assist him in his geographical and ethnological research following the first Polar ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Frenchman in Search of Franklin

    De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-54

    Translated by William Barr ...
    by Emile Frédéric de Bray ...
    Series series Heritage
    In April 1852 Emile Frederic de Bray sailed down the Thames on board the Resolute, part of Sie Edward Belcher's Arctic Squadron in search of Sir John Franklin and his men, missing since the summer of 1845. De Bray's diaries of his years with Resolute have not been published before, in any language, and only one other account of this particular Franklin search expedition exists.Enseigne-de-vaisseau ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • John Rae, Arctic Explorer

    The Unfinished Autobiography

    by John Rae ...
    John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae’s accomplishments is much greater. Over five expeditions, Rae mapped some 1,550 miles (2,494 kilometres) of Arctic coastline; he is undoubtedly one of the Arctic’s greatest explorers, yet today his significance is all but lost. John Rae, Arctic Explorer is an annotated version of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884

    Journals and Letters

    Edited by Ludger Muller-Wille ...
    In the summer of 1883, Franz Boas, widely regarded as one of the fathers of Inuit anthropology, sailed from Germany to Baffin Island to spend a year among the Inuit of Cumberland Sound. This was his introduction to the Arctic and to anthropological fieldwork. This book presents, for the first time, his letters and journal entries from the year that he spent among the Inuit, providing not only an ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Polaris

    The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73

    by Emil Bessels, William Barr ...
    Series Book 19 - Northern Lights
    Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two first-hand accounts of the voyage, and it is the only first-hand account of the experiences of the group which stayed with the ship after it ran ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • South: The Story Of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

    The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

    by Ernest Henry Shackleton ...
    When Sir Henry Ernest Shackleton was beaten to the South Pole in 1912, he decided to trek across the continent via the pole instead. Before his ship even reached the continent it was crushed in pack ice. Shackleton managed to bring his entire team home by his masterful leadership through a series of incredible events. He has become a cult figure and a role model for great leadership. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Sir John Franklin: Expeditions to Destiny

    Expeditions to Destiny

    by Anthony Dalton ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were never found, and the fate of Franklin’s expedition passed into legend as one of the North’s great and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Arctic Journals of John Rae

    by John Rae ...
    Series series Classics West
    Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and travel great distances on snowshoes. These skills served him well when, in 1846, he was charged with completing the geography of the northern shore of North America ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas

    by Sir Frances Leopold McClintock ...
    Series series Classics West Collection
    In 1845, Sir John Franklin set off from England to locate and chart the elusive Northwest Passage. He and his crew of 129 men never returned.Over the following decade, forty expeditions were launched in an effort to establish the fate of the missing men. But it wasn't until 1854 that traces of their demise were discovered along the western shore of King William Island.However, without proof, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD