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 1930–1, 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, 1918–1956, 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