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• Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in 1833, 1834 and 1835, Under the Command of Capt. Back, R.N (London: R. Bentley, 1836), by Richard King
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22 (third edition; London: J. Murray, 1824), by John Franklin and John Richardson
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust

• Annual Report, by Canada Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources (partial serial archives)

• Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), ed. by Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• An Adventurer of the North: Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre (London: Methuen, 1895), by Gilbert Parker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Northern Lights, by Gilbert Parker (Gutenberg text)
• Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North (sixth edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1905), by Gilbert Parker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North, by Gilbert Parker (Gutenberg text)
• A Romany of the Snows, by Gilbert Parker (Gutenberg text)
• The Silver Maple: A Story of Upper Canada (New York: Hodder and Stoughton; George Doran Company, c1908), by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oak and Iron: Of These Be the Breed of the North (New York and London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), by James B. Hendryx (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Susikoira (White Fang in Finnish; Helsinki: Otaba, 1918), by Jack London, trans. by Toivo Wallenius (Gutenberg text)
• White Fang, by Jack London (HTML at Bibliomania)

• The Man in the Twilight (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, n.d.), by Ridgwell Cullum (Gutenberg text)

• The Man in the Twilight (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, n.d.), by Ridgwell Cullum (Gutenberg text)

• The Beaver (Canadian history magazine, 1920-2010) (partial serial archives)

• A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014), by Gordon W. Smith (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (c2011), ed. by Sarah Carter and Patricia Alice McCormack (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (c2011), ed. by Sarah Carter and Patricia Alice McCormack (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015), ed. by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Zzehkko Enjit Gichinchik Nekwazzi Ttrin Ihthlog Kenjit Ako Gichinchik Ttrin Kittekookwichiltshei Kenjit Kah (selections from Oxenden and Ramsden's Family Prayers translated into Gwich'in; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1885), by Ashton Oxenden and C. H. Ramsden, trans. by Archdeacon McDonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012), by Patricia Wendy Dathan (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Notes on the Tinneh or Chepewyan Indians of British and Russian America (extracted from the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1866), ed. by George Gibbs, contrib. by Bernard R. Ross, William L. Hardisty, and Strachan Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Chipewyan Tales (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History v10 part 3; 1912), by Robert Harry Lowie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Dartmouth College, c1993), by Igor Krupnik (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Notes on the Tinneh or Chepewyan Indians of British and Russian America (extracted from the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1866), ed. by George Gibbs, contrib. by Bernard R. Ross, William L. Hardisty, and Strachan Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Dartmouth College, c1993), by Igor Krupnik (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Dartmouth College, c1993), by Igor Krupnik (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Relocating Eden: The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, University Press of New England, c1995), by Alan R. Marcus (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015), ed. by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Annual Report, by Canada Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources (partial serial archives)

• Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015), ed. by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012), by Patricia Wendy Dathan (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Arctic Winter Games, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1970 (1970), by John Hopwood and Wes McAleer (PDF at arcticwintergames.org)

• The Ulu News (newsletters issued during biannual Arctic Winter Games, 1970-), by Arctic Winter Games Corporation (partial serial archives)

• The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club (originally published 1910; reprinted New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), by Robert E. Peary, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt and Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cruise of the Corwin, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Yosemite Web)
• Description of Messrs. Marshall's Grand Peristrephic Panorama of the Polar Regions, Which Displays the North Coast of Spitzbergen, Baffin's Bay, Arctic Highlands, &c., Now Exhibiting in the Masonic Hall, York Street, Bath (Shrewsbury: Printed by W. Eddowes, 1822)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life With the Esquimaux: A Narrative of Arctic Experience in Search of Survivors of Sir John Franklin's Expedition (popular edition, with maps; London: S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1865), by Charles Francis Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life With the Esquimaux: The Narrative of Captain Charles Francis Hall, of the Whaling Barque "George Henry", From the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862 (London: S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1864), by Charles Francis Hall
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions, Or, The Adventures of Sir John Franklin (New York: G. Cooper, 1859), by John Franklin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Concise Account of Voyages, for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, Undertaken for Finding a New Way to the East-Indies (London: Printed for the Proprietor, 1782), by Richard Pickersgill (page images in Germany)
• In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (2 volumes; London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Fridtjof Nansen, trans. by Arthur G. Chater
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835 (Paris: A and W. Calignani, 1836), by George Back and John Richardson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative (new edition; Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856), by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at MOA)
• Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at MOA)
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, page images, and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), by Emil Bessels, trans. by William Barr (PDF with commentary at Calgary)
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences at a Reception Given to the Captain and Officers of the Jeannette Search Expedition (San Francisco, 1881), by California Academy of Sciences (page images at LOC)
• The Open Polar Sea: A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole, in the Schooner "United States", by I. I. Hayes (page images at MOA)
• Narrative of the North Polar Expedition, by United States Navy (page images at MOA)

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