Arctic Book Review
Monday, June 2, 2025

A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects

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Anne Strathie: A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects, From Cook’s Circumnavigations to the Aviation Age  Cheltenham, Gloucestershire,...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs: Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition

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Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs: Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition by Kenn Harper Iqaluit, Nunavut: Inhabit Media Inc., 2024 Review...
Friday, December 27, 2024

The Land Was Always Used: An Inuit Oral History of the Franklin Expedition

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The Land Was Always Used: An Inuit Oral History of the Franklin Expedition Edited by Connie Gunn Gjoa Haven: Nattilik Heritage Centre, 2024 ...
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Monday, December 23, 2024

The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions

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The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions Edited by Adrian Howkins and Peder Roberts Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ISBN 978-1-108-4...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Mark Kalluak’s Traditional Stories from Arviat

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Mark Kalluak’s Traditional Stories from Arviat by Mark Kalluak Iqaluit and Toronto: Inhabit Media, 2024. Reviewed by Kenn Harper   It's ...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

The Ministry of Time

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The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley Simon & Schuster, $28.99 / £16.99 Reviewed by Russell A. Potter A richly-detailed historical pas...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

An Inuk Hero

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An Inuk Hero in Rupert’s Land 1800-1834 by Renee Fossett Regina: University of Regina Press, 2023 $36.95 CA Paperback $89.00 CA Hardback   R...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Passage: A Novel

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Passage: A Novel by Angus Wardlaw Daredevil Books, 2013, $31.95 Reviewed by Russell A. Potter Many times in these columns we've reviewed...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Tracking the Franklin Expedition

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Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845: The Facts and Mysteries of the Failed Northwest Passage Voyage by Stephen Zorn McFarland & Co....
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Searching for Franklin

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Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery By Ken McGoogan Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre $38.95 CAD Reviewed by Russe...
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Russell Potter
Russell Potter is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. He speciality is the history of polar exploration (Arctic Spectacles, 2007), with a focus on the the lost 1845 Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin; his 2016 book, Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search,details the long search for evidence of the expedition. In 2022, along with Peter Carney, Regina Koellner, and Mary Williamson, he has edited a volume containing all the known letters to and from Franklin's men: May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition; the publisher is McGill-Queen's University Press.
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