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SVALBARD: ARCTIC LAND. Pål Hermansen. 2003. Translated by M. Michael Brady Oslo: Orion Forlag. 200 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 82-458-0596-3. NOK 399

FURY BEACH: THE FOUR-YEAR ODYSSEY OF CAPTAIN JOHN ROSS AND THEVICTORY. Ray Edinger. 2003. New York: Berkley Books. xxii + 279 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-425-18845-0. US$22.95; Can$34.50

WILLIAM SPEIRS BRUCE: POLAR EXPLORER AND SCOTTISH NATIONALIST. Peter Speak. 2003. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Publishing. 144 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-901663-71-X. £9.99.

HAN: PEOPLE OF THE RIVER. Craig Mishler and William E. Simeone. 2004. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. xxxviii + 297 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-889963-41-0. US$24.95

ANTARCTIC BESTIARY. Monika Schillat. 2002. Ushuaia: Editorial Fuegia. 43 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 987-96999-2-0. EURO 10

SEA ICE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ITS PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY AND GEOLOGY. D.N. Thomas and G.S. Dieckmann (Editors). 2003. Oxford: Blackwell Science. 416 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-6325-808-0. £89.50

LAUNCELOT FLEMING: A PORTRAIT. Giles Hunt. 2003. Norwich: Canterbury Press. xiv+274 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-85311-523-1. £19.99.

PINK ICE: BRITAIN AND THE SOUTH ATLANTIC EMPIRE. Klaus Dodds. 2002. London and New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. xxiii + 229 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-86064-770-7

WESLEY EARL DUNKLE: ALASKA'S FLYING MINER. Charles Caldwell Hawley. 2003. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. xxi + 274 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-87081-723-X. US$34.95

THE EARTH IS FASTER NOW: INDIGENOUS OBSERVATIONS OF ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE. Igor Krupnik and Dyanna Jolly (Editors). 2002. Fairbanks: Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. xxvii + 356 p; illustrated; soft cover. ISBN 0-9720449-0-6. US$20.00.

EXPLORING POLAR FRONTIERS: A HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. William James Mills. 2003. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. 2 vols: xliii + 388 p and x + 409 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-57607-422-6. $US185.00

THE NATURE OF GOLD: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH. Kathryn Morse. 2003. Seattle: University of Washington Press. xviii + 290 p, illustrated, hard cover. IBSN 0-295-98329-9. US$29.95

POLAR EXTREMES: THE WORLD OF LINCOLN ELLSWORTH. Beekman H. Pool. 2002. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 311 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-889963-44-5. US$24.95

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THE VOYAGE OF THEICEBERGS: FREDERIC CHURCH'S ARCTIC MASTERPIECE. Eleanor Jones Harvey with contributions by Gerald L. Carr. 2002. New Haven and London: Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University Press. 96 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-300-09536-8. £16.95.

BOREAL TIES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND TWO DIARIES OF THE 1901 PEARY RELIEF EXPEDITION. Kim Fairly Gillis and Silas Hibbard Ayer III (Editors). 2003. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. xv + 232 p, illustrated, hard cover. IBSN 0-8263-2810-5

RUSSIA AND THE WEST: ENVIRONMENTAL CO-OPERATION AND CONFLICT. Geir Hønneland. 2003. London and New York: Routledge. xii+169 p; maps; hardcover. ISBN 0-415-29835-0. £50.00.

THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN SURVIVAL. Claude A. Piantadosi. 2003. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. xvi + 263 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-19-516501-2. US$35.00

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF CANADA: CANADA'S HISTORY ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL MAPS. Derek Hayes. 2002. Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre; Seattle: University of Washington Press. 272 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-55054-918-9. Can$75.00; US$60.00

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