ARCTIC from Gilt Edge Books

McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1975. Farley Mowat, author of 'People of The Deer' and many other books, spins fascinating yarns from endless fabric of mystery and adventure which is the heritage of Canada's Arctic North. The book presents a memorable portrait of a land and its people, capturing the essence of the Arctic and of Eskimo lore. Poignant in… Read more about this item

Toronto: Coles, 1970. Coles Canadiana Collection. Facsimile edition of original published 1817. Contains some account of the North-Eastern coast of America and the tribes inhabiting that remote region. Illustrated with engravings. Folding map to inside front cover of the Great Nelson River, from the Great Lake Winnipeg to the Gull Lake showing the different Portages, Falls and Rapids. 279pp including… Read more about this item

Toronto: Coles, 1972. Illustrated card covers. Facsimile Edition of original published by G.P. Putnams, N.Y. 1879 348pp. Numerous illustrations. Coles Canadiana Collection. The author has shaped his material in the form of sketches connected only by their order, which represents the seasons of the year in which the features periodically recur. An extremely bright copy..… Read more about this item

Toronto: Random House, 1993. 192pp. includes index. Illustrated with b/w photos. The author combines accessible science with shrewd social, economic and political observation. This is also an adventure story, revealing something of the exhilaration and excitement of life at the ends of the earth- with a serious core of concern for the large issues that humanity will increasingly have to… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1935. Reindeer Trek is a magnificent saga ( told in the form of a novel) of the five-year trek of 3,000 reindeer across the roof of the world. Illustrated eps. 269pp. Illustrated dust jacket show some paper loss to top and bottom of spine. An interestig read.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard… Read more about this item

Boston: Little,Brown and Company, 1973. This is the record of two idyllic summers the author spent close to the North Pole in the Eskimo community of Pond Inlet. It is also a knowing and sympathic study of the Inuit (Eskimo) themselves. Map endpapers. A clean bright copy in a price-intact photographic dust jacket.. First Edition,Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 2002. In the nineteenth century, the North Pole was a tantalizing mystery. Ninety Degrees North draws on expedition logs, journals and letters to give us what is easily the most engaging and comprehensive account of mankind's epic quest for the North Pole. 470pp. Contents include: Preface and Acknowledgements, Chronology of Major Expeditions, Maps, Epilogue, Appendix.… Read more about this item

London: MacGibbon & Kee , 1972. Signed by the author to title page. Duncan Pryde came to Canada from Scotland at the age of eighteen to work for the Hudson's Bay Company as a fur trader. He tells of his discovery of a remote and primitive way of life to which he found that he easily adapted. His story abounds… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. Foreword by the author. Katharine Scherman went with a scientific expedition of eight Americans to Bylot Island, four hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. She found herself absorbed by the life of a people who are still living in the world of two thousand years ago. With equal wonder and curiosity she studied… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1980. Foreword by Margaret E. Murie. In this brilliantly conceived narrative, outdoor writer James Greiner tells the story of the gray wolf, one of the most fascinating....and misunderstood....animals of the Arctic. Focusing on a single pack of wolves that live in the vast Tanana River Valley, Mr Greiner traces the life… Read more about this item