Arctic Book Review
Archive
Previous Issues
Volume Eight, Numbers One and Two: 2006/7
Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing? by Michael Smith
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship by Martin Sandler
Reviewed by Jonathan Dore
Mirage in the Arctic , by Ejnar Mikkelsen
Reviewed by Jonathan Dore
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule , by Joanna Kavenna
Reviewed by Peter Fjågesund
Reviews in Brief
Robert and Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922 , edited by Robert J. Christopher
Reviewed by Lawrence Millman
The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture , by Michael F. Robinson
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Volume Seven, Number Two: Fall 2005
The Last Gentleman Adventurer, by Edward Beauclerk Maurice
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Afterlands, by Steven Heighton
Reviewed by Kenn Harper
The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic, by Robert McGhee
Reviewed by Jonathan Dore
Lady Franklin's Revenge, by Ken McGoogan
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Volume Seven, Number One: Spring 2005
Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness Murder, and the Collision
of Cultures in the Canadian Arctic, by McKay Jenkins
Reviewed by Kenn Harper
Science and the Canadian Arctic, by Trevor H. Levere
Reviewed by Jonathan Dore
Franklin's Passage, by David Solway
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
The Encyclopedia of the Arctic, edited by Mark Nuttall
reviewed by David Owen
Volume Six, Number Two: Fall 2004
The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold McClintock -- Discoverer of the Fate of Franklin, by David Murphy
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Interview with the author, David Murphy
Pomiuk, Prince of the North, by Alice Walsh
Reviewed by Kenn Harper
Reviewed by Jonathan Dore
Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut, Edited by John Bennett and Susan Rowley
Reviewed by Lawrence Millman
Rogue Diamonds: Northern Riches on Dene Land, by Ellen Bielawski
reviewed by John David Hamilton
Volume Six, Number One: Spring 2004
This
Issue's Reviews
Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North, by Jean Malaurie
reviewed by Jonathan Dore
A Kayak Full of Ghosts, by Lawrence Millman
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
BONUS: Interview with Lawrence Millman
Historical Atlas of the Arctic, by Derek Hayes
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Reviews in Brief
The Fate of Franklin: A Lost Poem by R.D.
Blackmore, ed. by David Blackmore
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, by Paul Apak Angilirq et. al.
Volume Five, Number Two: Fall 2003
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic, by Jennifer Niven
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
BONUS: Interview with Jennifer Niven
reviewed by Paul
vanPeenen
Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked
to the Arctic Ocean, by Ken McGoogan
reviewed by Russell A.
Potter
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic, by Valerian Albanov
Reviewed by Paul vanPeenen
Volume Five, Number One: Spring 2003
Fury Beach: The Four-Year Odyssey of Captain John Ross and the Victory, by Ray Edinger
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
BONUS: Interview with the Author, Ray Edinger
High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey, by Farley Mowat
reviewed by Jonathan Dore
The Horizontal Everest: Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island, by Jerry Kobalenko
reviewed by David Owen
reviewed by Lorrie Beaver Levesque
BONUS: Interview with the Author, Roger Hubank
Volume Four, Number Two: Fall 2002
The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece, by Eleanor Jones Harvey
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
The Navigator of New York, by Wayne Johnston
reviewed by Kenn Harper
At the Mercy of the Winds, by David Hempleman-Adams, with Robert Uhlig
reviewed by Jonathan Dore
Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason, by Glyn Williams
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
reviewed by Paul vanPeenen
Volume Four, Number One: Spring 2002
reviewed by Kenn Harper
Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin, by Martyn Beardsley
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
BONUS: An interview with Martyn Beardsley
From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, Ed. William Barr
reviewed by Jonathan Dore
The Broken Lands, by Robert Edric
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Trial by Ice, by Richard Parry
reviewed by David M. Owen
North Pole Legacy: Black, White, Eskimo, by S. Allen Counter
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Volume Three, Number Two: Fall 2001
The
Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked
the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis, by Lucy Jago
reviewed by Jonathan Dore
The
Arctic in the British Imagination, 1818-1914 , by Robert G. David
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Alone
Across the Arctic, by Pam
Flowers, with Ann Dixon
reviewed by Lorrie Beaver Levesque
The
Franklin Conspiracy - Cover-up, Betrayal, and the Astonishing
Secret
Behind the Lost Arctic Expedition,
by Jeffrey Blair Latta
reviewed by David Owen
John
Franklin: Traveller on Undiscovered Seas, by John Wilson
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Volume Three, Number One: Spring 2001
(Front Page Index)
Fatal Passage:The Untold Story of John Rae, the
Arctic Adventurer Who
Discovered the Fate of Franklin, by Ken McGoogan
reviewed by Paul vanPeenen
BONUS: Interview with the Author by Paul vanPeenen
Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic
Colony, by Robert Ruby
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
BONUS: Interview with the Author by Russell A. Potter
Arctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Northwest
Passage and Inuit Culture, by
Jonathan Waterman,
reviewed by Paul vanPeenen
The
Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk, by Jennifer Niven
reviewed by Paul vanPeenen
The
Ice Child, by Elizabeth McGregor
reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Dangerous Crossings: The First Modern Polar
Expedition, by Harold N. Cones and
John H. Bryant
reviewed by Jonathan Dore
Volume
Two, Number Two: Fall 2000
Fergus Fleming's Barrow's Boys, reviewed by Jonathan Dore
Leonard F. Guttridge's Ghosts of Cape
Sabine, reviewed
by Lorrie Beaver Levesque
Robert Randolph Carter's Arctic Journal, reviewed by David Owen
Peter Stark's Ring of Ice, reviewed by Russell Potter
Volume
Two, Number One (Spring, 2000)
John Wilson, North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter (With author interview)
Kenn Harper, Give Me My Father's Body: The Story of Minik, the New York Eskimo
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Scott Cookman, Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition
Reviewed by
Russell A. Potter
Volume
One, Number two (Fall, 1999)
David C. Woodman, Strangers Among Us
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
Francis Spufford: I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
Reviewed by
Russell A. Potter
Other Reviews By our Writers
(previously published in other
publications)
McKay Jenkins, Bloody Falls of the Coppermine
Reviewed by Lawrence
Millman [courtesy of the Yukon News]
William Laird
McKinlay, Karluk
Reviewed by Jonathan Dore
[courtesy of the Times Literary Supplement]
Don Aldridge, The Rescue of Captain Scott
Reviewed by Jonathan Dore
[courtesy of the Times Literary Supplement]
John
Maxtone-Graham, Safe Return Doubtful
Reviewed by Jonathan Dore
[courtesy of the Times Literary Supplement]