Polaris

Original author Emil Bessels
Edited and translated by William Barr
Series: Northern Lights

Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in ...

Baffin Island

By Jack D. Ives
Series: Northern Lights

A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of ...

Baffin Island

By Jack Ives
Series: Northern Lights

A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of ...

A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North

By Gordon W. Smith
Edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Foreword by Tom and Nell Smith
Series: Northern Lights

Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic. His 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on “The Historical and Legal Background of Canada’s ...

The Fast-Changing Arctic

Edited by Barry Scott Zellen
Contributions by Alun Anderson, Daniel Clausen, LTJG Michael Clausen, Ian G. Brosnan, Thomas M. Leschine, Edward L. Miles, Nong Hong, James Manicom, Maj. Henrik Jedig Jorgensen, Rasmus Gjedsso Bertelsen, Rob Huebert, Barry Scott Zellen, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Kararzyna Zysk, Caitlyn Antrim, and The Honourable Mead Treadwell
Afterword by Lawson W. Brigham
Series: Northern Lights

In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and ...

The Fast-Changing Arctic

Contributions by Lawson W. Bringham, Alun Anderson, Lassi Kalevi Heininen, Daniel Clausen, LTJG Michael Clausen, Ian G. Brosnan, Thomas M. Leschine, Edward L. Miles, Nong Hong, James Manicom, Maj. Henrik Jedig Jorgensen, Rasmus Gjedsso Bertelsen, Rob Huebert, Barry Scott Zellen, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Kararzyna Zysk, Caitlyn Antrim, and The Honourable Mead Treadwell
Series: Northern Lights

In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and ...

The Reindeer Botanist

By Wendy Dathan
Series: Northern Lights

This well-researched book is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator ...

Shipwreck at Cape Flora

By P.J. Capelotti
Series: Northern Lights

Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727

Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He ...

Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

By Karim-Aly Kassam
Series: Northern Lights

At the dawn of the third millennium, dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relations between human beings and their environment are in peril, with mounting threats to both biological ...

Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor

Original author Aleksei Mikhailovich Ermolaev & V.D. Dibner
Edited and translated by William Barr
Series: Northern Lights

One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some thirteen ...