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All books published in London unless otherwise indicated

Albanov, Valerian, In the Land of White Death, trans. Alison Anderson, New York, 2000

Alley, Richard, The Two-Mile Time Machine, Princeton, 2000

Amundsen, Roald, My Life as an Explorer, 1927

Andrée, S.A., Strindberg, Nils, & Fraenkel, Knut, The Andrée Diaries, trans. Edward Adams Ray, 1931

Applebaum, Anne, Gulag: A History, 2003

d’Aunet, Léonie, Voyage d’une jeune femme au Spitzberg, Paris, 1854

Balstad, Liv, North of the Desolate Sea, trans. Joan Bulman, 1958

Beardsley, Martyn, Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin, 2002

Berton, Pierre, The Arctic Grail, 1988

Blyth, J.D.M., ‘The War in Arctic Europe, 1941–45’, in Polar Record, vol. 7, Jan. 1955, no. 49, pp. 278–301

Bogoras, Waldemar, The Chukchee, New York, 1904–9

Brody, Hugh, The Other Side of Eden, Vancouver & Toronto, 2000

Carpenter, Edmund, Eskimo Realities, New York, 1973

Chapman, F. Spencer, Northern Lights: The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 19301, 1932

Watkins’ Last Expedition, 1934

Chekhov, Anton, A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire, 2007 (extracts from A Life in Letters, trans. Rosamund Bartlett & Anthony Phillips and The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin, trans. Luba & Michael Terpak)

Christianson, Gale E., Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming, 1999

Christopher, Robert J., Robert & Frances Flaherty, Montreal, 2005

Clark, Bruce, An Empire’s New Clothes, 1995

Cone, Marla, Silent Snow, New York, 2005

Conquest, Robert, The Great Terror: A Reassessment, 1968; 2008

Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps, New York, 1978

Conway, Sir Martin, No Man’s Land: A History of Spitsbergen, Cambridge, 1906

Cook, Frederick, My Attainment of the Pole, New York, 1911

Cross, Wilbur, Ghost Ship of the Pole: The Incredible Story of the Dirigible Italia, 1960

Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, 2005

Diment, Galia, & Slevkine, Yuri, eds, Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, New York, 1993

Ehrlich, Gretel, This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, 2002

Elbo, J.G., ‘The War in Svalbard, 1939–45’, in Polar Record, vol. 6, July 1952, no. 44, pp. 484–495

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, 2006

Figes, Orlando, Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, 2002

Fleming, Fergus, Ninety Degrees North, 2001

Barrow’s Boys, 1998

Forsyth, James, A History of the Peoples of Siberia, Cambridge, 1992

Ginzburg, Eugenia, Journey into the Whirlwind, trans. Paul Stevenson & Max Hayward, New York, 1967

Gosnell, Mariana, Ice, New York, 2005

Harper, Kenn, Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo, Iqaluit, NWT, 1986

Hawarth, David, We Die Alone, 1955

Hearne, Samuel A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean, 1795

Herbert, Wally, Across the Top of the World: The British Trans-Arctic Expedition, 1969

The Noose of Laurels: The Discovery of the North Pole, 1989

Hosking, Geoffrey, Russia and the Russians, 2001

Huntford, Roland, Scott and Amundsen, 1979

Nansen, 1997

Two Planks and a Passion, 2008

Ingold, Tim, The Skolt Lapps Today, Cambridge, 1976

Jackson, Frederick G., A Thousand Days in The Arctic, 2 vols, 1899

Jangfeldt, Bengt, Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele, trans. Harry Watson, 2008

Kennan, George, Tent Life in Siberia, 1871

Kenney, Gerard I., Arctic Smoke and Mirrors, Prescott, Ontario, 1994

Kent, Rockwell, Salamina, 1936

King, James, Farley, Toronto, 2002

Kobalenko, Jerry, The Horizontal Everest: Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island, New York, 2002

Kolbert, Elizabeth, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change, 2006

Kpomassie, Tété-Michel, An African in Greenland, 1981

Krakauer, Jon, Into the Wild, 1998

Lähteenmäki, Maria, & Pihlaja, Päivi Maria, eds, The North Calotte: Perspectives on the Histories and Cultures of Northernmost Europe, Helsinki, 2005

Lambert, Andrew, Franklin, 2009

Lamont, James, Yachting in Arctic Seas, 1876

Lewis-Jones, Huw W.G., ‘Nelson and the Bear: The Making of an Arctic Myth’, in Polar Record 41: 335–353 (2005)

London, Jack, The Call of the Wild, 1903

Loomis, Chauncey, Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer, 1971

Lopez, Barry, Arctic Dreams, 1986

McCoy, Roger M., Ending in Ice: The Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition of Alfred Wegener, Oxford, 2006

McGrath, Melanie, The Long Exile, 2006

McNeill, John, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century, 2000

McPhee, John, Coming into the Country, New York, 1977

Malaurie, Jean, The Last Kings of Thule, trans. Adrienne Foulke, 1982

Marcus, Alan, Out In the Cold: The Legacy of Canada’s Inuit Relocation Experiment in the High Arctic, Cambridge, 1990

Marshall, Robert, Arctic Wilderness, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1956

Arctic Village, 1940

Millman, Lawrence, Last Places, 1990

Morgan, Lael, Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, Fairbanks & Seattle, 1998

Mowat, Farley, High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey, 2002

—People of the Deer, 1952

Muir, John, Travels in Alaska, 1915

Munthe, Axel, The Story of San Michele, 1929

Nansen, Fridtjof, The First Crossing of Greenland, 1890

Farthest North, 1897

Nelson, Richard K., Hunters of the Northern Ice, Chicago & London, 1969

Niven, Jennifer, The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk, New York, 2000

Pala, C., ‘Unlikely Heroes: the Story of the First Men who Stood at the North Pole, in Polar Record 35 (195): 337–342 (1999)

Papanin, Ivan, Life on an Icefloe, trans. Fanny Smitham, 1947

Peary, Robert E., Northward over the Great Ice, 2 vols, New York, 1898

The North Pole, 1910

Pielou, E.C., A Naturalist’s Guide to the Arctic, Chicago, 1994

Pryde, Duncan, Nunaga: Ten Years among the Eskimos, 1972

Reid, Anna, The Shaman’s Coat: A Native History of Siberia, 2002

Ridgway, John, Gino Watkins, 1974

Riffenburgh, Beau, The Myth of the Explorer, Oxford, 1994

Roberts, David, Shipwrecked on the Top of the World, New York, 2003

Robson, Roy R., Solovki, New Haven & London, 2004

Russell, Elena, The Golden Edge: Growing up in Russian Alaska, 1995

Savours, Ann, The Search for the North West Passage, New York, 1999

Schofield, Ernest, & Conyers Nesbit, Roy, Arctic Airmen: The RAF in Spitsbergen & North Russia in 1942, 1987

Scoresby, William Jr, An Account of the Arctic Regions with a Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery, 2 vols, Edinburgh, 1820

Scott, J.M., Gino Watkins, 1935

Scott, Jeremy, Dancing on Ice, 2008

Slevkine, Yuri, Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North, Ithaca, New York, 1994

Smolka, H.P., 40 Thousand Against The Arctic, 1937

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, The Gulag Archipelago, 19181956, trans. Thomas Whitney, 1974

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, The Friendly Arctic, New York, 1922

Strohmeyer, John, Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska, New York, 1993

Stuck, Hudson, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dogsled, 1914

Taplin, Mark, Open Lands: Travels through Russia’s Once Forbidden Places, 1997

Tenderini, Mirella, & Shandwick, Michael, The Duke of the Abruzzi, 1997

Thomas, D.M., Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1998

Thubron, Colin, In Siberia, 1999

Took, Roger, Running with Reindeer, 2003

Turi, Johan, Turi’s Book of Lappland, trans. Emilie Demant Hatt & E. Gee Nash, 1931

Vaughan, Richard, The Arctic: A History, Stroud, 1994

Vitebsky, Piers, Reindeer People, 2005

Vorren, Ørnulv, & Manker, Ernst, Lapp Life and Customs: A Survey, trans. Kathleen McFarlane, 1962

Walk, Ansgar, Kenojuak: The Life Story of an Inuit Artist, Manotick, Ontario, 1999

Wilk, Mariusz, The Journals of a White Sea Wolf, trans. Danusia Stok, 2003

Williams, Glyn, Voyages of Delusion: the Search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason, 2002

Williams, Peter J., Pipelines and Permafrost: Science in a Cold Climate, 1986

Wollaston, Nicholas, The Man on the Ice Cap: The Life of August Courtauld, 1980

Wood, Alan, & French, R.A., eds, The Development of Siberia, 1989