Arctic Book Review
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Empire of Ice and Stone

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Empire of Ice and Stone by Buddy Levy New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2022 412 pp: $29.99 Reviewed by Lawrence Millman As a polar drama, the 1...
Monday, January 2, 2023

The Last Speaker of Bear

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The Last Speaker of Bear by Lawrence Millman San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2022 214 pp., $18.95 Reviewed by Russell A. Potter I fir...
Monday, June 27, 2022

HMS Terror

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HMS Terror: The Design, Fitting, and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship by Dr. Matthew Betts Seaforth Press, £30 (UK) Naval Institute Press...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

Inuit and Explorers

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IN THOSE DAYS: INUIT AND EXPLORERS by Kenn Harper Inhabit Media, 2022   Reviewed by Lawrence Millman   In far too many accounts of Arctic ex...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages

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Visual Culture and the Arctic Regions: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions by Eavan O'Dochartaigh ...
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, ...
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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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