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Volume 38 - October 2002

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Tundra passages: gender and history in the Russian Far East. Petra Rethmann. 2001. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, xxi v + 219 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-271-02508-X. US$22.50.

Snow ecology: an interdisciplinary examination of snow-covered ecosystems. H.G. Jones, J.W. Pomeroy, D.A. Walker, and R.W. Hoham (editors). 2001. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xx + 378 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-521-58483-3. £50.00; US$80.00.

Nunavut: Inuit regain control of their lands and their lives. Jens Dahl, Jack Hicks, and Peter Jull (Editors). 2000. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 223 p, soft cover. ISBN 87-90730-34-8.

The Svalbard archipelago: American military and political geographies of Spitsbergen and other Norwegian polar territories, 1941–1950. P.J. Capelotti (Editor). 2000. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, xii + 180 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-7864-0759-X. US$45.00.

The Franklin conspiracy: cover-up, betrayal, and the astonishing secret behind the lost Arctic expedition. Jeffrey Blair Latta. 2001. Toronto: Dundurn Press. 320 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-88882-234-0. Can$22. 99.

Endangered peoples of the Arctic: struggles to survive and thrive. Milton M.R. Freeman (Editor). 2000. Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, xx + 278 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-313-30649-4. £33.50.

Cheltenham in Antarctica: the life of Edward Wilson. D.M. Wilson and D.B. Elder. 2000. Cheltenham: Reardon Publishing. 144 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-873877-45-5. £10.99.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: behavior and environment. Richard B. Alley and Robert A. Bindschadler (Editors). 2000. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union (Antarctic Research Series 77). xii + 296 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-87590-957-4. US$65.00.

International fisheries management. Stuart B. Kaye. 2001. The Hague, London, Boston: Kluwer Law International, xxii + 606 p, hard cover. ISBN 90-411-9820-2. £109.00.

A little piece of England: my adventures as Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands. Andrew Gurr. 2001. London: John Blake Publishing. 290 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-903402-37-9. £16.99.

The ice master: the doomed 1913 voyage of the Karluk. Jennifer Niven. 2000. London: Macmillan. xiv+402 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-333- 77060-6, £16.99.

The soul of the north: a social, architectural and cultural history of the Nordic countries, 1700–1940. Neil Kent. 2000. London: Reaktion Books. 416 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-861-89041-9. £35.00; US$45.00.

Dangerous crossings: the first modern polar expedition, 1925. John H. Bryant and Harold N. Cones. 2000. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, xvi + 206 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-55750-187-4. $US27.95.

Life in the cold. Gerhard Heldmaier and Martin Klingenspor (Editors). 2000. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. x + 546 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 3-540-67410-1. £86.00; US$129.00.

This everlasting silence: the love letters of Paquita Delprat & Douglas Mawson. Nancy Robinson Flannery (Editor). 2000. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, xx + 154 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-522-84870-2. £19.50.

Hunting tradition in a changing world: Yup'ik lives in Alaska today. Ann Fienup-Riordan. 2000. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, xx + 310 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-8135-2805-4. £38.95.

Pesca: a history of the pioneer modern whaling company in the Antarctic. Ian B. Hart. 2001. Salcombe, Devon: Aidan Ellis Publishing. 548 p, illustrated, hardcover. ISBN 0-85628-299-5. £45.00.

The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914. Robert G. David. 2000. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, xx + 278 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-7190-5943-7. £46.00.

The Antarctic dictionary: a complete guide to Antarctic English. Bernadette Hince. 2000. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing and Museum of Victoria. 394 p, hard cover. ISBN 0-9577471-1-X. Aus$39.95.

Ice in the ocean. Peter Wadhams. 2000. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, xii + 351 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 90-5699-296-1. £44.00; US$67.00.

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