Books - Arctic Exploration & Culture

• Ancient People of the Arctic by Robert McGhee

Recommended by George Collier “Great Book!”

• The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 by Pierre Berton
   
• Crossing Antarctica by Will Steger

Called an “adventure of the highest echelon” (New York Times), this stunning account chronicles the 220-day, 3,700-mile expedition of six men who were the first to cross Antarctica by foot. Photos.

• English-Eskimo, Eskimo-English Dictionary published by P. Shalom Pubns.
   
• North of Reliance: A Personal Story of Living Beyond the Wilderness by David Olesen
   
• North to the Pole by Will Steger & Paul Schurke

A first-person account of the 1986 dog sled expedition to the North Pole, the first to reach the North Pole without resupply since Robert E. Peary in 1909.

• Ten Thousand Miles With A Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
   
• Woodsong by Gary Paulsen

The story of his intimate relationship with Minnesota's north woods and the dog team he trained for the Iditarod sled race.