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Volume 41 - April 2005

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AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC SCIENCE: THE FIRST 50 YEARS OF ANARE. Edited by Harvey J. Marchant, Desmond J. Lugg, and Patrick G. Quilty. 2003. Kingston, Tasmania: Australian Antarctic Division. x + 622 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-876934-05-0. £35.00

SHAMANISM IN SIBERIA: RUSSIAN RECORDS OF INDIGENOUS SPIRITUALITY. Andrei A. Znamenski. 2003. Dordrecht, Boston, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. viii + 371 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-4020-1740-5. £87.00; US$138.00; EUR125.00

ALASKA'S HIDDEN WARS: SECRET CAMPAIGNS ON THE NORTH PACIFIC RIM. Otis Hayes Jr. 2004. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. xvii + 182 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-889963-64-X. US$19.95

IN THE GHOST COUNTRY: A LIFETIME SPENT ON THE EDGE. Peter Hillary with John E. Elder. 2004. Edinburgh & London: Mainstream Publishing. 343p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-84018-835-9. £15.99

WITH SCOTT TO THE POLE: THETERRA NOVAEXPEDITION 1910–1913. Beau Riffenburgh, Liz Cruwys, and H.J.P. Arnold. 2004. London: Bloomsbury. 240 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-7475-6968-1. £35.00

LATE THULE CULTURE DEVELOPMENTS ON THE CENTRAL EAST COAST OF ELLESMERE ISLAND. Peter Schledermann and Karen M. McCullough. 2003. Copenhagen: Greenland Research Centre at the National Museum of Denmark and Danish Polar Center. 203p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 87-90369-64-5. DKK 248

FROZEN OCEANS: THE FLOATING WORLD OF PACK ICE. David N. Thomas. 2004. London: Natural History Museum. 224 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-565-09188-3. £22.00

RUSSIANS IN ALASKA 1732–1867. Lydia T. Black. 2004. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. xv + 328 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-889963-05-4. $US29.95

THE SILENT SOUND: TWO YEARS IN ANTARCTICA AND THE STORY OF THE FIRST WINTER OCCUPATION OF ALEXANDER ISLAND. Cliff Pearce. 2004. Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild. xvi+256p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-85776-845-0. £16.95

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT VARIABILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHANGE. Edited by Leonid P. Bobylev, Kirill Ya. Kondryatev, and Ola M. Johannessen. 2004. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer. xliv + 471 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 3-540-43458-5. £107.50; US$169.00; EUR 139.95

CULTIVATING ARCTIC LANDSCAPES: KNOWING AND MANAGING ANIMALS IN THE CIRCUMPOLAR NORTH. David G. Anderson and Mark Nuttall (Editors). 2004. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. xiii + 238 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-57181-574-0. £40.00; US$59.95

THE ORGANIC CARBON CYCLE IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN. Rüdiger Stein and Robie W. Macdonald. 2004. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. xx + 363 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 3-540-01153-6. £107.50; US$169.00; EUR139.95

WRITING GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATION: THOMAS JAMES AND THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE, 1631–33. Wayne K.D. Davies. 2004. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. xvi + 318 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-55238-062-9. $Can49.95

ATLAS OF ANTARCTICA: TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS FROM GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETER DATA. Ute Christina Herzfeld. 2004. Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York: Springer-Verlag. xxvi + 364 p + CD-ROM, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 3-540-43457-7. £115.00; $US159.00; EUR149.95

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THE NORTHERN UTOPIA: BRITISH PERCEPTIONS OF NORWAY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Peter Fjågesund and Ruth A. Symes. 2003. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 413 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN: 90-420-0846-6. US$100.00; EUR84.00

THE FRANZ JOSEF LAND ARCHIPELAGO: E.B. BALDWIN'S JOURNAL OF THE WELLMAN POLAR EXPEDITION 1898–1899. P.J. Capelotti (Editor). 2004. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland and Co. ix+186p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-7864-1776-5

WHALES' BONES OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Nicholas Redman. 2004. Available from the author: 237 Hawardene Gardens, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0DP. 417 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-9545800-0-1. £35.00

SIR JAMES WORDIE, POLAR CRUSADER: EXPLORING THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC. Michael Smith. 2004. Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd. xix + 371 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-84158-292-1. £25

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