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The International Polar Year ran thru March, 2009.
Do search the internet for indepth program data on this world-wide campaign to introduce a new era of polar science. In the meantime, we have this new collection		 polar bear including books written by some of the most famous early explorers. All are great tales with pictures, drawings and much detail. A few are summarized below. Find more in our Exploration and Discovery section
 
0566 A Negro Explorer 0586 In Northern Mists 0565 Nanook of the North 0575 Across the Subarctics 0594 American Expedition
A Negro Explorer
at the North Pole
by Matthew A. Henson
 
April 6, 1909, Henson, Peary,
and four Eskimos were first
to the North Pole.
Pub# 0566  114 pgs $ 14.95
Order this Octavo Book		 In Northern Mists
Volumes 1 and 2
by Fridtjof Nansen
 
A famous work on the history of arctic exploration
390 pgs each $ 25.95 each
#0586-Order this Octavo Bk
#0587-Order this Octavo Bk		 Nanook
of the North
by Julian W. Bilby
 
The widely lauded true story
of Eskimo hunters.
Pub# 0565  318 pgs $ 25.95
Order this Octavo Book		 Across the
Sub-Arctics of Canada
by J.W. Tyrell
 
A journey of 3,200 miles
by canoe and showshoe.
Pub# 0575
280 pgs 1 plt $ 22.95
Order this Octavo Book		 The American
Expedition
by Sven Waxell,
 
Vitus Bering's "dis-
covery" of the sea
which bears his name today.
Pub# 0594
232 pgs 7 plts  $21.95
Order this Octavo Book