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Review of A journey in Antarctica: exploring the future of the white continent, by Sergio Rossi (2022). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Praxis Books. 198 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-89491-7; ISBN (eBook) 978-3-030-89492-4.

Javier Menéndez-Blázquez

Published: 2023-12-13
Review of Five journeys through the Arctic and a new Russia in search of Willem Barents, by JaapJan Zeeberg (2023). Soesterberg, Netherlands: Aspekt Publishers. 372 pp. ISBN 978-9-46462-914-9.

Susan Barr

Published: 2023-07-10
Review of Footsteps in the snow, by John Dudeney (2022). Dunbeath, Scotland: Whittles Publishing. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-184995-539-3.

Olav Orheim

Published: 2023-07-05
Review of Expedition relics from High Arctic Greenland—eight decades of exploration history told through 102 objects, by Peter R. Dawes (2023). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 500 pp. ISBN 987 87 635 46867.

Per Kyrre Reymert

Published: 2023-05-17
Review of Thinking like an iceberg, by Olivier Remaud (2022). Stephen Muecke, trans. Medford, MA: Polity. 180 pp. ISBN 978-1-509-55148-4.

Isabelle Gapp

Published: 2023-01-19
Review of John Møller: Mirrored, portraits of Good Hope, by Inuuteq Storch (2021). Copenhagen: Rousse Roulette. 312 pp. ISBN 978-87-97324-20-2.

Anna M. Gielas

Published: 2022-08-12
Book review of The return of the South Pole sled dogs: with Amundsen’s and Mawson’s Antarctic expeditions, by Mary R. Tahan (2021). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 467 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-65112-1.

Javier Menéndez-Blázquez

Published: 2022-04-18
Review of Anna across the Arctic, by Liz O’Connell & Arin Underwood, illustrated by Arin Underwood (2020). Anchorage, AK, USA: WonderVisions. 35 pp. ISBN: 978-0-9677126-6-6

Helle V. Goldman

Published: 2021-07-09
Review of Goodbye, ice: Arctic poems, by Lawrence Millman (2020). Albuquerque, NM, USA: Coyote Arts. 83 pp. ISBN paper: 978-1-58775-031-1; e-book: 978-1-58775-032-8

E. Lewis Williams

Published: 2021-06-07
Review of The life of permafrost—a history of frozen earth in Russian and Soviet science, by Pey-Yi Chu (2020). Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 288 pp. ISBN-978-1-4875-0193-8.

Peder Roberts

Published: 2021-03-22
Review of The life of José María Sobral: scientist, diarist, and pioneer in Antarctica, by Mary R. Tahan (2018). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 336 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-67267-0.

Pat Millar

Published: 2019-12-19
Review of The Arctic, by Richard Sale & Per Michelsen (2018). Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing Ltd. 364 pp. ISBN 978-1-84995-342-9.

Stein Ø. Nilsen

Published: 2019-11-19
Review of Four Antarctic years in the South Orkney Islands: an annotated translation of Cuatro años en las Orcadas del Sur, by Jose Manuel Moneta (2017). London: Bernard Quaritch. 440 pp. ISBN 978-0-9955192-0-6.

Adrian Howkins

Published: 2019-03-05
Review of The spectral Arctic: a history of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration by Shane McCorristine (2018). London: University College London Press. 265 pp. ISBN 978-1-78735-246-9.

Dianne Chisholm

Published: 2019-01-21
Review of The polar adventures of a rich American dame: a life of Louise Arner Boyd, by Joanna Kafarowski, Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2017, 367 pp., 15.99 GBP (paperback). ISBN 978-1-4597-3970-3

Anka Ryall

Published: 2018-07-25
Review of Priestley’s progress: the life of Sir Raymond Priestley, Antarctic explorer, scientist, soldier, academician, by Mike Bullock, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017, 197 pp., £38.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-7864- 7805-7

Peder Roberts

Published: 2018-06-04
Review of Svalbard from above, by Bjørn Fossli Johansen, Harald Faste Aas, Anders Skoglund & Oddveig Øien Ørvoll, Tromsø, Norwegian Polar Institute, 2017, 215 pp., hardback, 399 NOK (approximately 51 USD). ISBN 978-82- 7666-410-2

Helle V. Goldman

Published: 2018-02-23
The Arctic guide: wildlife of the Far North

Helle V. Goldman

Published: 2017-12-21
Captain Scott: icy deceits and untold realities

Steven Attenborough

Published: 2017-02-21
Review of The greatest show in the Arctic: the American exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898-1905, by P. J. Capelotti (2016).

Aant Elzinga

Published: 2016-10-26
Review of The polar regions: an environmental history, by Adrian Howkins

Henrik Knudsen

Published: 2016-09-27
Review of Asian countries and the Arctic future, edited by Leiv Lunde, Yang Jian & Iselin Stensdal

Winfried K. Dallmann

Published: 2016-02-09
Review of Botanical excursions on the northern Sørøya (Finnmark, Norway), edited by N. Koroleva, E. Borovichev, A. Melekhin and Tom E. Ness

Heinjo J. During

Published: 2014-10-10
Review of The fast-changing Arctic: rethinking security for a warmer world, edited by Barry Scott Zellen

Kristian Åtland

Published: 2014-02-19
Review of Polar bears: a complete guide to their biology and behavior, by Andrew Derocher

Dag Vongraven

Published: 2014-02-19
Review of The last of the Arctic voyages. Being a narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance. Vol. 1-2, by Edward Belcher

Roald Berg

Published: 2013-12-20
Review of Svalbard life, by Paul Wassmann & Rudi Cayers

Bjørn Fossli Johansen

Published: 2013-12-11
Review of Exploring Antarctic values, by Daniela Liggett & Alan D. Hemmings

David W. H. Walton

Published: 2013-11-08
Review of Shipwreck at Cape Flora: the expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s forgotten Arctic explorer, by P. J. Capelotti

Susan Barr

Published: 2013-09-12
Review of Antarctica: global science from a frozen continent, edited by David W.H. Walton

John P. Smol

Published: 2013-07-03
Review of The reindeer botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901–1977, by Wendy Dathan

Robert M. M. Crawford

Published: 2013-07-01
Review of LASHIPA: History of Large Scale Resource Exploitation in Polar Areas, edited by Louwrens Hacquebord

P. J. Capelotti

Published: 2013-03-11
Review of A complete guide to Antarctic wildlife: birds and mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean, by Hadoram Shirihai

Fridtjof Mehlum

405-406

Published: 2012-01-30
Review of Sea ice–an introduction to its physics, chemistry, biology and geology, edited by David N. Thomas & Gerhard S. Dieckmann

Sebastian Gerland

408-409

Published: 2012-01-30
Review of Field techniques for sea ice research, by Hajo Eicken, Rolf Gradinger, Maya Salganek, Kunio Shirasawa, Don Perovich & Matti Leppäranta

Angelika Renner

Published: 2012-01-24
Review of The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions, by David G. Anderson

Winfried K. Dallmann

Published: 2012-01-24
Review of A woman in the polar night, by Christiane Ritter, translated by Jane Degras and with an introduction by Lawrence Millman

Anka Ryall

Published: 2011-10-14
Review of Return to Antarctica: the amazing adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scott’s journey to the South Pole, by Adrian Raeside

R.K. Headland

Published: 2011-08-23
Review of Biology of polar benthic algae, edited by Christian Wiencke

Andreas Holzinger

Published: 2011-06-14
Review of Tourism and change in polar regions: climate, environment and experience and Cruise tourism in polar regions: promoting environmental and social sustainability?

P. J. Capelotti

Published: 2011-04-21
Reviews of Eloquent science: a practical guide to becoming a better writer, speaker and atmospheric scientist and Presentation skills for scientists

Kevin R. Wood

Published: 2011-04-04
Review of Antarctic climate change and the environment edited by John Turner et al.

Olav Orheim

Published: 2011-02-21
Review of Paleoclimates. Understanding climate change past and present, by Thomas M. Cronin

Rüdiger Henrich

Published: 2011-01-14
Review of Polar lakes and rivers: limnology of Arctic and Antarctic aquatic systems by Warwick F. Vincent and Johanna Laybourn-Parry

Dag O. Hessen

Published: 2011-01-11
Review of The great ocean of truth, by Peter Wadhams

Leonard Johnson

Published: 2011-01-07
Review of Greetings from Spitsbergen: tourists at the eternal ice, 1827–1914, by John T. Reilly

P. J. Capelotti

Published: 2010-12-21
Review of Legacies and change in polar sciences: historical, legal and political reflections on the International Polar Year, edited by JM Shadian & M Tennberg

Klaus Dodds

458-460

Published: 2010-12-01
Review of Snow and climate: physical processes, surface energy exchange and modeling, edited by Richard L Armstrong & Eric Brun

Stephen J. Déry

461-462

Published: 2010-12-01
Review of Health of Antarctic wildlife: a challenge for science and policy, edited by Kerry R. Knowles & Martin J. Riddle

Clive R. McMahon

463-466

Published: 2010-12-01
Review of Arctic scientist, Gulag survivor: the biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905–1991, translated and edited by William Barr

Winfried K. Dallmann

467-468

Published: 2010-12-01

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