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Volume 36 - October 2000

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Frank Wild. Leif Mills. 1999. Whitby: Caedmon of Whitby. xiv + 343 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-905355-48-2. £25.50.

Norwegian maritime explorers and expeditions. Kåre Berg, Thor N. Devig, Øystein Kock Johansen, and Henrik Ulven. 1999. Oslo: Index Publishing AS. 175 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 82-7217-102-3. NOK 100.

Ringed seals in the North Atlantic. Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen and Christian Lydersen (Editors). 1998. Tromsø: North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission. 273 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 82-91578-04-4. NOK350.

A whaling enterprise: Salvesen in the Antarctic. Gerald Elliot. 1998. Norwich: Michael Russell. 190 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-85955-241-1. £17.95.

Antarctic environments and resources: a geographical perspective. James D. Hansom and John E. Gordon. 1998. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, xiv + 402 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-582-08127-0. $21.99.

Alaska and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service 1867–1915. Truman R. Strobridge and Dennis L. Noble. 1999. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, xiv and 226 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-55750-845-3. US$32.95.

The Antarctic region: geological evolution and processes. C.A. Ricci (Editor). 1997. Siena: Terra Antartica Publication, xii + 1206 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 88-900221-0-8. 150,000 lire.

Expedition medicine. David Warrell and Sarah Anderson (Editors). 1998. London: Profile Books and The Royal Geographical Society. vii + 292 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-86197-040-4. £17.99.

Teaching in a cold and windy place: change in an Inuit school. Joanne Tompkins. 1998. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 153 p; soft cover. ISBN 0-8020-4168-X. £11.95.

Icemen: a history of the Arctic and its explorers. Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan. 1999. Basingstoke and Oxford: Boxtree. 189 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-7522-1341-5. £6.99.

The fifth man: Henry R. Bowers. C.H. Lagerbom. 1999. Whitby: Caedmon of Whitby. xii + 239 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-905355-51-2. £18.00.

Across Arctic America: narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition. Knud Rasmussen. 1999. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, xl + 415 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-912006-94-3. $US24.95.

The English language edition of the geocryological map of Russia and neighbouring republics. P.J. Williams and I.M.T. Warren. 1999. Ottawa: Collaborative Map Project. Handbook: 32 p, soft cover. ISBN 0-9685013-0-3. Map: 16 sheets (95 × 66 cm per sheet), scale 1:2,500,000. $US350.00.

Palaeo-Eskimo settlements in Scoresby Sund, northeast Greenland. Hanne Tuborg and Birge Sandell. 1999. Copenhagen: Danish Polar Center. 149 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 87-90369-35-1.

South Ocean Fishing: policy changes for Australia. Sam Bateman and Donald R. Rothwell (Editors). 1999. Wollongong: University of Wollongong (Paper on Maritime Policy 7). viii + 142 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-86418-463-8.

Waiting to fly: my escapades with the penguins of Antarctica. Ron Naveen. 1999. New York: William Morrow and Company, viii + 374 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-688-15894-3. $US26.00.

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The Arctic: A History. Richard Vaughan. 1999. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, ix + 340 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-7509-2256-7. £14.99.

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By airship to the North Pole: an archaeology of human exploration. P. J. Capelotti. 1999. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, xix + 224 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-8135-2633-7. $US26.00.

The Search for the North West Passage. Ann Savours. 1999. London: Chatham Publishing, x + 342 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-86176-059-0. £25.00.

Foothold on Antarctica. Charles Swithinbank. 1999. Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, viii + 260 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-85776-406-4. £18.50.

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