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Map of a Portion of the Arctic Shores of America, to Accompany Captn. McClintock's Narrative, 1859
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Philadelphia: Thos. S. Wagner's Litho ; J T Lloyd, 1860 33 x 50 cm printed area, but on larger sheet. From the 1860 Philadelpia (Lloyd) edition of McClintock's Narrative. Delicate contemporary outline watercoloring.. Map. Very Good. more information
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Arctic Discoveries : Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000 28cm oblong, 122p. paperback. Fine. more information
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Arctic Discoveries : Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000 28cm oblong, 122p; new but for crease on front cover.. paperback. Good. more information
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The Eskimos of Hudson Bay and Alaska
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NY: Folkways Records & Service Corp, 1954 28cm, 8p, scholarly inset and liner notes for Folkways record album FE-4444 of the same title.. Unbound. Very Good. more information
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No Ordinary Journey : John Rae, Arctic Explorer 1813-1893
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993 22cm oblong, 116p, "Rae was the first arctic traveller to find evidence of the fate of the missing Franklin expedition, evidence that was based on Inuit testimony. This embroiled him in argument with those reluctant to accept accounts given by the Inuit. Taught to survive in extreme conditions by the Indians and the Inuit, he used this knowledge in exploring, surveying and mapping; collecting information on zoology, ethnography, and geology; and making detailed observations of the ethnography of the Inuit." Closed tear in dustjacket.. hardcover. New/New. more information
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Canada. Northwest Territories. Beaufort Sea. Cape Dalhousie to Baillie Islands including Liverpool Bay. [hydrographic map]
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Ottawa: Canadian Hydrographic Service, 1971 #7606; 1:150,000 scale; elephant folio size.. Map. Very Good. more information
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Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999 23cm, 274p. paperback. New. more information
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Arctic Circle Songs
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Manotick, ON: Penumbra Press, 1991 22cm, 74p. paperback. new. more information
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Aux glaces polaires. Indiens et Esquimaux
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Lyons: Oeuvre apostolique de Marie-Immaculée, 1921 23cm, 476p, all maps present; spine fraying at head and heel, otherwise unopened.. Printed wraps. Good. more information
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On Site with Maurice Haycock, Artist of the Arctic : Paintings and Drawings of Historical Sites in the Canadian Arctic
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Campbellville, ON: Edgar Kent Publishers, 2007 26cm oblong, 112p. hardcover. New/New. more information
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School-House in the Arctic
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London: Geoffrey Bles, 1958 22cm, 223p; very clean copy in almost fine dj.. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. more information
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Martin Frobisher's Northwest Venture, 1576-1581: Mines, Minerals, and Metallurgy
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Hull, PQ: Canadian Museum of Civilization / Camden House, 1994 24cm, 181p, a historico-geological account of Frobisher's "worthless" ore.. paperback. New. more information
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Arctic Artist : The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822 (Rupert's Land Record Society Ser.)
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994 28cm, 403p, "the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin's tragic first expedition to the Arctic. George Back's prose captures the drama of the journey, while his superb watercolour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Published for the first time, this is the complete text of Back's journal.". hardcover. New/New. more information
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A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004 23cm, 271p, "In 1903 Hubbard's husband, Leonidas, starved to death on his cartographic and ethnographic expedition to Labrador. Hubbard decided to complete her husband's work, becoming a skilled explorer and cartographer in her own right.". hardcover. New/New. more information
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The Land of Feast and Famine
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008 23cm, 360p. A classic account of the last days of the fur trade in the Barren Lands of the Canadian Arctic. First published in Norwegian in 1931, in English translation by Knopf in 1933 and now back in print through McGill-Queens University Press. Ingstad was to become famous for his discovery of the old Norse settlement of Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1961. . paperback. New. Illus. by Eugene Gay-Tifft (translator). more information
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Angus Cockney Kannerk presents Reflections - Tuk in Stone
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Yellowknife, NWT: Angus Cockney Kannerk, 1992 22cm, 20p, finely-illustrated exhibition catalogue of native sculpture. paperback. Fine. more information
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The North-west Passage 1940-1942 and 1944: The Famous Voyages of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Schooner St. Roch
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Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1969 23cm, 51p. paperback. Very Good. more information
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Arctic Wings
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1959 21cm, 335p, grey boards. "Up on the bend of the world where the polar fox and the wolf prowl the shelf ice of the glaciers, I found the vast land of the snow people, the Eskimos." Tales of a Catholic priest in the Canadian Arctic.. hardcover. Very Good. more information
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The Best Journey in the World : Adventures in Canada's High Arctic
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East Lawrencetown, NS: Pottersfield Press, 2006 23cm, 224p; an account of four voyages into the "heart of lightness" on Ellesmere Island 1957. paperback. New. more information
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The Arctic Promise: Legal and Political Autonomy of gReenland and Nunavut
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007 23cm, 272p. "In Canada’s Eastern Arctic and Greenland, the Inuit have been the majority for centuries. In recent years, they have been given a promise from Canadian and Danish governments that offers them more responsibility for their lands and thus control over their lives without fear of being outnumbered by outsiders. The Arctic Promise looks at how much the Inuit vision of self-governance relates to the existing public governance systems of Greenland and Nunavut, and how much autonomy there can be for territories that remain subordinate units of larger states.". paperback. New. more information
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Polar Castaways : The Ross Sea Party Of Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1914-17
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004 23 cm, 320p, "The first in-depth account of the Ross Sea party based on previously unpublished interviews of survivors of the expedition.". hardcover. New/New. more information
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The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher : An Elizabethan Venture
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001 22cm square, 196p, "Using reports from the men who participated in the venture, details preserved in the oral histories of the Inuit, and archaeological information recovered from the sites of Elizabethan activities on Baffin Island, Robert McGhee describes Frobisher's expeditions and offers new insights into this audacious venture.". hardcover. New/New. more information
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The MacKenzie Pipeline : Arctic Gas and Canadian Energy Policy
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974 20cm, 226p. paperback. Fine. more information
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To the Arctic with the Mounties
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Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1934 8vo, 22cm, [xii], frontis, 309p, blue cloth, folding map with tear on opening fold; no dj and toned.. hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. more information
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Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001 23cm, 162p, "Strongly influenced by the arts and crafts movement, the New England artist Jessie Luther began her crafts career as director of the Labor Museum at Hull House, Chicago, at the invitation of the social reformer Jane Addams. In 1906, she was recruited by Dr Wilfred Grenfell, the medical missionary, to teach weaving to women at St Anthony, a small community at the northern tip of Newfoundland, and for four years she painstakingly laid the groundwork for a variety of craft industries.". hardcover. New/New. more information
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Cold Comfort : My Love Affair with the Arctic
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998 23cm, 255p, a young British archaeologist on Baffin Island with the Inuit in 1935.. paperback. New. more information
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Scott of the Antarctic: The Journals of Captain R F Scott's Last Polar Expedition
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NY: Prospero Books, 2000 24cm, 521p; facsimile reprint. hardcover. Fine/Fine. more information
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The Unbelievable Land : 29 Experts Bring Us Closer to the Arctic
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Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs, 1964 21cm, 140p. softcover. Very Good. more information
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Tammarnlit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic 1939-63
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Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994 23cm, 500p. paperback. New. more information
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Under Polaris : An Arctic Quest
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999 23cm, 246p. hardcover. New/New. more information
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Unravelling the Franklin Mystery : Inuit Testimony
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992 24cm, 390p, "I proceeded from the assumption that all Inuit stories concerning white men should have a discoverable factual basis ... [and] managed to discover a scenario which allowed use of all of the native recollections, solved some troubling discrepancies in the physical evidence, and led to some significant new conclusions as to the fate of the beleaguered sailors.". hardcover. New/New. more information
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Strangers Among Us
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995 25cm, 166p, new look at the Hall theory of the Franklin expedition based on the evidence of Inuit oral tradition.. hardcover. New/New. more information
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Portrait of Jane: A Life of Lady Franklin
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951 23cm, 382p; dustjacket discolored in places and a one-inch closed tear professionally mended. Thi biography drawn from the 200 journals and 2000 letters of Jane Griffith, Lady Franklin, in the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge.. hardcover. Fine/Good. more information
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Hooper Bay Kayak Construction
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Hull, PQ: Canadian Museum of Civilization / Musée canadien des civilisations, 2000 28cm, 107p. paperback. New. more information
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