Arctic Book Review
Friday, June 12, 2026

Leave Our Bones Where They Lay

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Leave Our Bones Where They Lay by Aviaq Johnston  Iqaluit/Toronto: Inhabit Media, 2025 CAN$19.95 Paperback Reviewed by Lena Leimgruber Hara...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Arctic Genius: Sir William Edward Parry, The Original Arctic Explorer

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Arctic Genius: Sir William Edward Parry, The Original Arctic Explorer by Trevor Ware Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2025.   Rev...
Saturday, May 9, 2026

Unikkaaqtuat: An Introduction to Inuit Myths and Legends

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UNIKKAAQTUAT: An Introduction to Inuit Myths and Legends Edited by Neill Christopher, Noel McDermott, and Louise Flaherty Iqaluit, Nunavut: ...
Monday, April 27, 2026

For Glory, Not Gold

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For Glory, Not Gold: Expeditions through Arctic lands, 1818–1876 by Hubert Sagnières.  400 pp. Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-08-048791-9 Rev...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Dancing Chief

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Dancing Chief: The Tragic Life of Lieutenant Frederick F. Kislingbury by Douglas W. Wamlsey Reviewed by Frank Michael Schuster Some thirty y...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

A Gift Before Dying

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A Gift Before Dying by Malcolm Kempt New York: Crown, 2026 US$28 eBook Reviewed by Lena Leimgruber Haraldsson There is a wide sea of thrille...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

Vanished Beyond the Map

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Vanished Beyond the Map The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell By Adam Shoalts   Allen Lane, An Imprint of Penguin Canada, 2025 Toronto...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Arctic Dreams and Nightmares

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Arctic Dreams and Nightmares  Alootook Ipellie Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, 2025 Inhabit Media, $19.75 Reviewed by Lawrence Millman In 1951, In...
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...
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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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