| The Top and Bottom of the World (Rookie Read-About Science)
| Describes the location, climate, and animal life of the cold regions at either end of the earth.
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| Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
| 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 relearn his native language and hunting skills to survive. Told here for the first time, this dark chapter...More
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| History of Greenland Hb (Vol 1)
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| Arctic Adventure
| An adventure classic by the famed explorer who lived among the Greenland Inuit. (SEE QUOTE.)
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| Greenland Mummies (Time Travelers (Twenty First Century))
| 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.
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| Antarctica
| 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 bases on the continent to help protect it from recurring threats to its mineral reserves and marine lif...More
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| Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration
| 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 fame fueled expedition after expedition. Some Arctic explorers met with success and celebrity; others...More
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| Dark companion;: The story of Matthew Henson, (A Fawcett premier book)
| 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".
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| The Last Kings of Thule: With the Polar Eskimos, As They Face Their Destiny
| 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 Eskimo (Inuit) culture.
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| Lifelines through the Arctic
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| North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo
| Upon hearing rumors that the men who discovered the North Pole had fathered sons while on their expedition, S. Allen Counter arranged to visit the remote villages where Robert Peary, the credited discoverer, and Matthew Henson, the black man whose contributions to the expedition are widely ignored, stayed during their travels. This book recounts the astonishing story of Counter’s trips to Greenland and the relationships he develops with the Eskimo ancestors of the two men. At the same time, ne...More
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| Northwest Greenland: A History
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| GREENLAND MUMMIES
| How did they die? Why were they buried together? What had been the nature of their culture and beliefs? How had they survived in the harsh Arctic climate? To solve this icy mystery, a team of archaeologists, historians, and medical specialists used modern, innovative investigative techniques. They carried out their detective work with keen scholarly curiosity, combined with respect for these people of the past. While many puzzles have been answered, others remain unsolved. The investigati...More
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| The Polar passion: The quest for the North Pole. With selections from Arctic journals
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| Conquest of the Last Frontier
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| Arctic frontiers;: United States explorations in the Far North
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| The Arctic: A History (General History)
| A major history, which examines the life and culture of indigenous peoples such as the Inuit and Samoyed and their struggle for existence, this book shows the extraordinary diversity and richness of this apparently barren region.
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| Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
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| The Arctic World
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| Quest for the Northeast Passage (A sea adventure)
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