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Volume 26 - October 1990

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The Travellers: Canada to 1900. E. Waterston, I. Easterbrook, B Katz and K. Scott (editors). 1989. Guelph, University of Guelph. 321 p, ilustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-88955-170-7. Can$49.00.

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Hot Conflicts, Cold Realities - The age of the Arctic. G. Osherenko and O. R. Young 1989. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (Studies in Polar Research). 316 p, illustrated, hardcover. ISBN 0-52136451-5. £37.50, US$59.50.

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Comments on articles by Lynch and Osczevski

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Arctic Travel Collection - A victorian earl in the Arctic. The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale 1888–9. Krech, Shepard III (editor). 1989. London: British Museum Publications Ltd.207 pp, Illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-7141-1588-6. £19.95.

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Pour Jean Malaurie. C. de Bartillat. (editor). 1990. Paris, Editions Plon. 944 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 2-259-01913-7. 450 FF.

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South Pacific Sector - Antarctic sector of the Pacific. G. P. Glasby (editor). 1990. Amsterdam, Elsevier. (Elsevier Oceanography Series 51). 396 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-444-88510-2. US$97.50, Df1 190.00.

Correspondence

Wolves breeding in northeast Greenland

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Permafrost - The frozen earth: fundamentals of geocryology. Peter J. Williams and Michael W. Smith 1989. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 306 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-521-36534-1. £37.50 or US$65.00.

History of the Antarctic Flora and Fauna - Origins and Evolution of the Antarctic Biota. J. A. Crame (editor). 1989. London, The Geological Society (Geological Society Special Publication No. 47). 322 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-903317-44-3. £58.00

The Heroic Age - Safe return doubtful: the heroic age of polar exploration. John Maxtone-Graham. 1988. Wellingborough, Patrick Stephens. 364 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-85260-293-7. £16.95.

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Britain in the Arctic: A Directory of Interests and Activities. Scott Polar Research Institute. 1990. Swindon, Natural Environment Research Council (Occasional Papers 4). 112 p, soft cover. ISBN 1-85531-018-X. Free.

The Manx Shearwater. M. Brook 1990. London, T. A. Poyser and Academic Press Ltd.246 p, illustrated, hard cover. £17.00.

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Shipping in the Canadian North - The Challenge of Arctic Shipping: Science, Environmental Assessment and Human Values. D. L. VanderZwaag and C. Lamson (editors). 1990. Montreal and Kingston, McGill and Queen's University Press. 282 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-7735-0700-0. £33.20.

Alaskan Eskimo Masks - Agayut: Eskimo masks from the 5th Thule Expedition: Knud Rasmussens Samlinger Fra Nunivak, Alaska. Sonne, Birgitte. 1988. Copenhagen, Gyldendal. 375 p, drawings, photographs, soft cover. ISBN 87-00-32832-4. DKr 400.00.

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Enjoying a Life in Science: The Autobiography of P. F. Scholander. P. F. Scholander 1990. Fairbanks, University of Alaska Press. 226 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-912006-37-4. $22.95.

Petroleum Geology of North Greenland. F.G. Christiansen 1989. Copenhagen, Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse (GGU Bulletin 158). 92 p. illustrated, soft cover. ISSN 0105-3507. US$55.0.

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Antarctica: Policies and Policy Development. J. Hanmer (editor). 1989. Canberra, ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies. (Resource and Environmental Studies No. 1). 74 pages, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-86740-346-2.

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Antarctica: an Indian View - Dawning of Antarctica: A Geopolitical Analysis. Chaturvedi, Sanjay. 1990. New Delhi, Segment Books. 300 p, maps, hard cover. ISBN 81-85330-06-9.

The South American Way - Strategy in the southern oceans. a South American view. Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse. 1989. London, Pinter Publications (Studies in Contemporary Maritime Policy and Stategy). 155 p, maps, hard cover. ISBN 0-86187-017-4. £32.50.

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