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Volume 44 - October 2008

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FOOTSTEPS ON THE ICE: THE ANTARCTIC DIARIES OF STUART D. PAINE, SECOND BYRD EXPEDITION. M.L. Paine (Editor). 2007. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. xxxii + 368 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN: 978-0-8262-1741-7. $US34.95.

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A further note on the Belgica project

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THE COLDEST CRUCIBLE: ARCTIC EXPLORATION AND AMERICAN CULTURE. Michael F. Robinson. 2006. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. xii + 206 p, illustrated, hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-226-72184-2. US$39.00.

PROTECTING THE ANTARCTIC COMMONS: PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY.Bernard P. Herber. 2007. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona. vi + 73 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-931143-31-5.

ANTARCTICA CRUISING GUIDE. Peter Carey and Craig Franklin. 2006. Wellington, New Zealand: AWA Press. v + 233 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-9582629-4-2. $US25.95; $NZ39.99.

APOSTLE TO THE INUIT: THE JOURNALS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES OF EDMUND JAMES PECK, THE BAFFIN YEARS, 1894–1905.Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten, and François Trudel (Editors). 2006. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. xiv + 498 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-8020-9042-7. £48.00; $US75.00.

SOCIAL LIFE IN NORTHWEST ALASKA: THE STRUCTURE OF INUPIAQ ESKIMO NATIONS. Ernest S. BurchJr., 2006. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 478 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 978-1-88963-78-5. $US65.00.

PROSPECTS FOR POLAR TOURISM. John M. Snyder and Bernard Stonehouse (Editors). 2007. Wallingford: CABI. xiv + 318p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 978-1-84593-247-3. £60.00.

SEAL FISHERIES OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AND DEPENDENCIES: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW.A.B. Dickinson. 2007. St John's, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association (Research in Maritime History 34). viii + 202 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 978-0-9738934-4-1.

RIVER OF WHITE NIGHTS: A SIBERIAN RIVER ODYSSEY. Jeffrey Tayler. 2006. London: Robson Books. xxiii + 230 p, hard cover. ISBN 1-86105-949-3. £16.99.

ALASKA NATIVE ART: TRADITION, INNOVATION, CONTINUITY. Susan Fair. 2006. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. xxxii + 280p, illustrated, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-889963-79-2. US$65.00.

THE ANTARCTIC SUBGLACIAL LAKE VOSTOK: GLACIOLOGY, BIOLOGY AND PLANETOLOGY. Igor A. Zotikov. 2006. Heidelberg and Chichester: Springer/Praxis Publishing. xviii + 139 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 3-540-42649-3. £77.00; US$129.00; €99.95.

FROBISHER'S GOLD. Fraser Grace. 2006. London: Oberon Books. 101p, soft cover. ISBN 1-84002-709-6. £8.99.

WHALING AND HISTORY II: NEW PERSPECTIVES. Jan Erik Ringstad (Editor). 2006. Sandefjord: Kommandør Chr. Christensens Hvalfangstmuseum (Publication 31). 192 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 82-993797-7-6.

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EIGHT MEN IN A CRATE: THE ORDEAL OF THE ADVANCE PARTY OF THE TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1955–1957. Anthea Arnold. 2007. Norwich: Erskine Press, Bluntisham: Bluntisham Books. 133 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 978-1-85297-095-6. £12.75.

FIELD GUIDE TO THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS OF TRISTAN DA CUNHA AND GOUGH ISLAND. Peter Ryan (Editor). 2007. Newbury: Pisces Publications, for the Tristan Island Government. vi + 162 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 978-1-874357-33-9. £13.50.

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