Arctic Reading List
ESSENTIAL
¾ Lopez, Barry. Arctic Dreams. Vintage Books, 2001.
¾ McGhee, Robert. The Last Imaginary Place. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
¾ Pielou, E.C. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Arctic. University of Chicago Press, 1994.
¾ McGoogan, Ken. Dead Reckoning: the Untold Story of the Northwest Passage. Harper Collins, 2017.
¾ Watt-Cloutier, Sheila. The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic, and the Whole Planet. Allen Lane, 2015.
¾ Alunik, Ishmael. Across Time and Tundra: the Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic. Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 2003.
¾ Aupaluktuq, Nancy Pukirnak. The legend of Kiviuq as retold in the drawings of Nancy Pukirnak Aupaluktuq. Preface by Diane Webster. Ottawa, ON: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2006.
¾ Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund, Danielle Marine Cudmore, & Stefan Donecker eds. Imagining the Supernatural North. University of Alberta Press, 2016.
¾ Barrett, Andrea. The Voyage of the Narwhal. W.W. Norton and Company, 1999.
¾ Beauclerk Maurice, Edward. The Last Gentleman Adventurer. Mariner Books, 2006.
¾ Bennett, John and Susan Rowley, eds. Uqalurait: an Oral History of Nunavut. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. 473 pages.
¾ Berton, Pierre. The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole. Anchor Canada, 2001.
¾ Bonesteel, Sarah. Canada's Relationship With Inuit: A History of Policy and Program Development. Prepared for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; managed and edited by Erik Anderson ; prepared by Public History Inc. ; principal author: Sarah Bonesteel. Ottawa, ON: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2008.
¾ Borkan, Bran & David Hirzel. When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision-Making Lessons from the Antarctic. Terra Nova Press, 2017.
¾ Brody, Hugh. The other side of Eden: hunters, farmers and the shaping of the world. Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2000.
¾ Byers, Michael. Who Owns the Arctic: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009.
¾ Crnkovich, Mary, ed. Gossip: a Spoken History of Women in the North. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, 1989.
¾ Delgado, James. Across the Top of the World. Douglas and McIntrye, 2009.
¾ Dippel, John V. H. To the Ends of the Earth: the Truth Behind the Glory of Polar Exploration. Penguin, 2018.
¾ Dorais, Louis-Jacques. From Magic Words to Word Processing: A History of the Inuit Language. Iqaluit, NWT: Arctic College, Nunatta Campus, 1993.
¾ Eber, Dorothy Harley. When the Whalers Were Up North: Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic. McGill- Queens University Press. 1989.
¾ Emanuel, Kerry. What We Know about Climate Change. MIT Press, 2012.
¾ Emmerson, Charles. The Future History of the Arctic. Perseus, 2010.
¾ Fitzhugh, William. (ed. Ward) Vikings: the North Atlantic Saga. Smithsonian Books, 2000.
¾ Fitzhugh, William. Narwhal: Revealing and Arctic Legend. International Polar Institute, 2017.
¾ Fossett, Renée. In Order to Live Untroubled: Inuit of the Central Arctic, 1550-1940. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 2001.
¾ Gedalof, Robin, ed. Paper Stays Put: A Collection of Inuit Writing. Edmonton, AB: Hurtig Publishers, 1980.
¾ Geiger, John & Owen Beattie. Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. Vancouver, Greystone Books, 2004.
¾ Geiger, John and Mitchell, Alanna. Franklin’s Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.
¾ Guttridge, Leonard F. Ghosts of Cape Sabine: the Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition. Lightning Source, 2000.
¾ Hallendy, Norman. An Intimate Wilderness: Arctic Voices in a Land of Vast Horizons. Greystone, 2016.
¾ Harper, Kenn. Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik the New York Eskimo. Vermont, Steerforth Press, 2000.
¾ Harvey, Sylvain, ed. Native peoples of Québec. Michel Noël, Redaction. Québec, QC: Éditions Sylvain Harvey, 2003.
¾ Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of the Arctic. University of Washington Press, 2003.
¾ Henderson, Bruce. True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole. New York, W.W. Norton, 2005.
¾ Ipellie, Alootook. Arctic Dreams and Nightmares. Penticton, BC: Theytus Books, 1993.
¾ Johnson, Charles W. Ice Ship: Epic Voyages of Polar Adventurer Fram. University Press of New England, 2014.
¾ King, Thomas. A Coyote Columbus Story. Groundwood, 2007.
¾ King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water. Harper Perennial, 1999.
¾ King, Thomas. The Truth About Stories. Anansi, 2003.
¾ King, Thomas. The Back of the Turtle. Harper Perennial, 2017.
¾ Kløver, Gier O. Roald Amundsen: the South Pile Epxedition 1910–1912. The Fram Museum, 2010.
¾ Kobalenko, Jerry. Arctic Eden. Douglas and McIntrye, 2010.
¾ Lambert, Andrew. The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin’s Tragic Quest for the Northwest Passage. Yale University Press, 2010.
¾ Leroux, Odette, Marion E. Jackson, and Minnie Aodla Freeman, eds. Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset. Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre; Hull, QC.: Canadian Museum of Civilization ; Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1994.
¾ Lewis-Jones, Huw. Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle, and Polar Exploration. Thames & Hudson, 2017.
¾ Lynge, Aqqaluk. Inuit: The Story of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. Nuuk, Greenland: Atuakkiorfik, 1993.
¾ MacDonald, John. The Arctic Sky: Inuit Star Lore, Legend, and Astronomy. Toronto, ON: Royal Ontario Museum, 1998.
¾ Markoosie. Harpoon of the Hunter. Illustrations by Germaine Arnaktauyok. Montreal and London: Queen's University Press, 1970.
¾ McGoogan, Ken. Ancient Mariner: the Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean. Harper Collins, 2003.
¾ McGoogan, Ken. Fatal Passage: the Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin. Harper Collins, 2001.
¾ McGoogan, Ken. Lady Franklin’s Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History. Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2005.
¾ McGoogan, Ken. Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures and Romantic Obsessions of Elisha Kent Kane. Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2008.
¾ McLeish, Todd. Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World. University of Washington Press, 2014.
¾ Morrison, David and Germain, Georges-Hébert. Inuit: glimpses of an Arctic past. Hull, QC: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1995.
¾ Nicandri, David L. ed. Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage. University of Washington Press, 2015.
¾ Nungak, Zebedee and Eugene Arima, eds. Inuit Stories: Povungnituk / Légendes inuit: Povungnituk. Translated from Inuktitut into French by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.
¾ Osborne, Season. In the Shadow of the Pole: An Early History of Arctic Expeditions, 1871-1912. Dundern Press, 2013.
¾ Palin, Michael. Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time. Random House Canada, 2018.
¾ Pelly, David. Sacred Hunt: A Portrait of the Relationship Between Seals and Inuit. 2001.
¾ Pelly, David. The Old Way North: Following the Oberholzer-Magee Expedition. 2008.
¾ Pelly, David. Ukkusiksalik — The People’s Story. Dundern Press, 2016.
¾ Petrone, Penny, ed. Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
¾ Rink, Signe. Eden of the North. International Polar Institute, 2014
¾ Robinson, Gillian, ed. Isuma Inuit Studies Reader: an Inuit Anthology. Montreal, QC: Isuma Pub., 2004.
¾ Sale, Richard & Per Michelsen. Wildlife of the Arctic. Princeton University Press, 2018.
¾ Struzik, Ed. The Big Thaw: Adventures in the Vanishing Arctic. John Wiley and Son, 2011.
¾ Tester, Frank James and Peter Kulchyski. Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1994.
¾ Tulurialik, Ruth Annaqtuusi and David F. Pelly. Qikaaluktut: Images of Inuit Life. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press, 1986.
¾ Urness, James. Twenty-Five Brave Men: Tales from an Arctic Journey. Wheatmark, 2013.
¾ Wheeler, Sara. The Magnetic North. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
¾ Wilson, David M. The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Little, Brown & Co, 2011.
¾ Winter, Kathleen. Boundless. House of Ansasi Press, 2014.
¾ Wright, Shelley. Our Ice is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunquligtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers and Climate Change. McGill-Queens University Press, 2014.