BOOKS OF INTEREST
In this section we present books which we think will be of interest to explorers and those who are fascinated by their deeds and struggles. Many of these books are newly published, but some are classics. All of them tell rousing tales.
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The Farfarers (Steerforth, 2000), by Farley Mowat.

Canada's bestknown storyteller advances a controversial theory that a race of Indo-Europeans called Albans preceded the Norse in North America by several centuries. The worst thing you could say about Farley's latest, which is by turns exasperating and invigorating, is that it's a wonderful yarn.

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North to the Night (McGraw-Hill, 1999), by Alvah Simon.

The author sails his 36 foot sailboat into a remote harbor on Bylot Island in the Canadian Arctic and there gets frozen in for the winter. A close encounter with the Arctic that ranks with the very best books on the subject.
Voyaging (Wesleyan, 1999), by Rockwell Kent.

A reprint of a splendid knockabout voyage around Cape Horn by one of America's finest artists. The book is as fresh today as it was when it was originally published over 75 years ago.

Northern Latitudes (New Rivers Press, 2000) by Lawrence Millman

Northern Latitudes is a book of prose poems celebrating a twenty-five year romance with the Arctic and other cold, pure places.
The Lure of the LabradorWild (Chelses Green Publishing Co., 1990). Dillon Wallace, tells the story of Leonidas Hubbard and their trek into the inhospitable interior of Labrador His description of the return journey of these three ill fed, ill clad men is vivid to the point that one should turn up the thermostat and keep snacks at hand.
Toward Magnetic North
(Available from The Oberholtzer Foundation, 300 N. Hill St, Marshall, MN, 56528)

This extremely handsome book which includes photographs, diary jottings, and essays by various hands details explorer conservationist Ernest Oberholtzer's epic 1912 canoe trip from The Pas, Manitoba, to Hudson Bay. The photos, especially, are remarkable; at once lyrical and austere, they provide an eloquent window on a lost time and a distant place, not to mention Native People who now seem almost as distant as the Stone Age. A "must" for canoeists and Arctic aficionados.
Travelling Passions (Dartmouth College Press, 2003)

Vilhjalmur Stefansson was perhaps the fiurst anthropologist to live with his subjects. As it happens, he lived with them rather more intimately than anyone ever expected. In this extremely well-researched book, Icelandic anthropologist Gisli Palsson tells the story of Stefansson's Inuit wife Pannigabluk and their son Alex, neither of whom Stefansson - to his discredit - acknowledged during his lifetime.