Although some of us here at the Arctic Book Review take a dim view of the place we like to call "the other pole," there's no ...

Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America By Shelagh D. Grant Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre $39.95 Reviewed by Ru...

The end of the year often brings a series of oversize packages to the offices of the Arctic Book Review - 'tis the season for large-fo...

Russell Potter: I've read that your initial interest in the Franklin story came from the NOVA broadcast, in which I was a presenter. ...

To the long annals of flights of fancy inspired in whole or part by the last, fatal expedition of Sir John Franklin -- a list whose authors ...

We don't usually notice a new book before we've even had a chance to read it -- but Dominique Fortier's On the Proper Use of Sta...

James Fitzjames: The Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition by William Battersby Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, £20 ISBN 978-07...

Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage Glyn Williams Allen Lane ISBN 978-1-846-14138-6 Reviewed by Jonathan Dore Anyon...

The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage By Anthony Brandt Alfred A. Knopf, 28.95 Reviewed by R...

Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade by John R. Bockstoce New H...