'Books and More Worth a Look' by dcornwall

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This book contains a chapter on "Home Life and Social Conditions" starting on page 175. A favorite paragraph of mine begins, "In all of the larger settlements and at the army posts the prescence of refined and educated women.." Fun stuff.

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History of the Arctic Circle with emphasis on indigenous peoples including the Inuit and the Sami.

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Sketches, paintings, photographs and more done by Porter while working on ten arctic expeditions between 1894 and 1912. After his arctic career, Porter became an astronomer.

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A well illustrated 1970 report to the peoples of the US and Canada published by former Alaska governor Wally Hickel when he was Secretary of the Interior.

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True story of an ocean voyage that has a funny and sad story of visiting Japanese libraries on pages 232-236. No maps for the foreigner in the 1930s.

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99 pages worth of oral arguments before the US Supreme Court. Thanks to ARLIS in Anchorage for same day cataloging!

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Stories drawn from official sources about explorers Bronlund, Egerton, Rawson, Holm, Hegemann, Jarvis, Bertholf, Kalutunah, Parr, Petiot, Pim, Richardson, Ross, Swatka, Gilder, Sonntag, Staffe, Tyson, and Woon.

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Personal account of a woman who claimed to be the "first white woman crew member ever to go to the arctic." Voyages may have taken place in the 1930s. Might be a good bet for Women's History Month.

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Personal account of a man who lived alone in the Arctic Svalbard Islands from 1967 - 1973. Some of the trials he faced were polar bears attacking his sleeping bags, week long storms that kept him cabin bound and surviving for two weeks with a broken hand.

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Personal account from one of the members of a 1952 USAF expedition to make the first successful landing on a floating island of ice, T-3, close to the North Pole.