Arctic Book Review
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Franklin's Fate / No Earthly Pole

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Franklin's Fate. An Investigation Into What Happened to the Lost 1845 Expedition of Sir John Franklin , by John Roobol. Canterbury/Kent,...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Icebound in the Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition

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Icebound in the Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition by Michael Smith Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 2...
Sunday, December 20, 2020

The Hands' Measure

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The Hands’ Measure: Essays Honouring Leah Aksaajuq Otak’s Contribution to Arctic Science. Edited by John MacDonald and Nancy Wachowich Iqalu...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

What I Remember, What I Know

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What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile By Larry Audlaluk Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, 2020 Reviewed by Russell A. Potter W...
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Monday, January 6, 2020

Adventures in Polar Reading

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Adventures in Polar Reading: The Book Cultures of High Latitudes by David H. Stam, with Deirdre C. Stam New York: The Grolier Club, ...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Hunters on the Track

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Hunters on the track: William Penny and the search for Franklin By W. Gillies Ross Montreal & Kingston; McGill-Queen’s University...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Split Tooth

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Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq Viking, $24.95 Reviewed by Paddy Eason It's my impression that many readers of the Arctic Book ...
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Monday, March 25, 2019

The Library of Ice

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The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate By Nancy Campbell Scribner, $18.95 (hc); $11.99 (kindle) Reviewed by P.J. Capelott...
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Sunday, March 24, 2019

White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic

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White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century by John Bockstoc...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Unchained Man

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Unchained Man: The Arctic life and times of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett by Maura Hanrahan Portugal Cove-St Philip’s, NL: Boulder Pu...
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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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