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Volume 30 - January 1994

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Archeology of the Frobisher voyages. William W. Fitzhugh and Jacqueline S. Olin (Editors). 1993. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. xvi + 271 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-56098-171-7. £34.95; US$45.00.

Southern Ocean Ecology: A Biomass Perspective. Sayed Z. El-Sayed (Editor). 1994. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xxi + 399 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-521-44332-6. £45.00; US$59.95.

Moments of Terror: The Story of Antarctic Aviation. David Burke. 1994. London: Robert Hale. 320 pp, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-7090-5309-6.

Canada's cold environments. Hugh M. French and Olav Slaymaker (Editors). 1993. Montreal, Kingston, and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, xxii + 346 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-7735-0925-9. £42.75.

Charting The Sea of Darkness: The Four Voyages of Henry Hudson. Donald S. Johnson. 1993. Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, xiv + 242 pp, illustrated, hardcover. ISBN0-87742-321-0. US$22.95.

The great russian navigator, A.I. Chirikov. V. A. Divin. Translated and annotated by Raymond H. Fisher. 1993. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press (Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series VI). xiii + 319 p, maps, soft cover. ISBN 0-912006-63-3. US$20.00.

East of the sun: the conquest and settlement of Siberia. Benson Bobrick. 1992. London: William Heinemann. 542 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-434-92889-5. £20.00

Polarpeoples: Self-Determination And Development. Minority Rights Group. 1994. London: Minority Rights Publications, x + 270 pp, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-873194-51-X.

The Language of Empire: Myths and Metaphors of Popular Imperialism, 1880–1918. Robert H. MacDonald. 1994. Manchester: Manchester University Press, xii + 268 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-7190-3749-2. £40.00.

Overland to Starvation Cove: with the Inuit in search of Franklin 1878–1880. Heinrich Klutschak. Edited and translated by Willam Barr. 1993. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. xxxi + 261 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-8020-7397-2. £16.25; US$28.00.

Fluctuations of glaciers 1985–90 (Vol. VI). Compiled by W. Haeberli and M. Hoelzle. 1993. Zurich: World Glacier Monitoring Service, xii + 322 p, maps, hard cover. ISBN 92807-1370-1. US$50.00.

In a Crystal Land: Canadian Explorers in Antarctica. Dean Beeby. 1994. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, xii + 262 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-8020-0362-1. £19.00; US$29.00.

Saami and Dene concepts of nature. Timm Rochon. 1993. Umeå: Center for Arctic Research, Umeå University. v + 116 p, softcover. ISSN 0283-9717.

Advances in ice technology. T.K.S. Murthy, W.M. Sackinger, and P. Wadhams (Editors). 1992. Southampton: Computational Mechanics Publications. 365 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-85312-175-4.

Shadows on the Wasteland. Mike Stroud. 1993. London: Jonathan Cape. 182 pp, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-224-03846-X. £14.99.

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Journeys of the Great Explorers. Rosemary Burton, Richard Cavendish, and Bernard Stonehouse. 1993. Basingstoke: Automobile Association. 224 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-7495-0501-X. £16.99.

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Mind over matter: the epic crossing of the Antarctic continent. Ranulph Fiennes. 1993. London: Singer-Stevenson. 326 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-85619-375-6. £16.99.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Volume XIII: 1901–1910. 1994. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, xxi + 1295 p, hard cover. ISBN 0-8020-3998-7. £55.00; Can$110.00.

Whaling and History: Perspectives on the Evolution of the Industry. Bjørn L. Basberg, Jan Erik Ringstad, and Einar Wexelsen (Editors). 1993. Sandefjord: Sandefjordmuseene (Christensens Hvalfangstmuseum publication 29). 214 pp, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 82-990595-6-9. NOK 250.

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