296 pages; 68 photographs; 31 in colour; 9 maps; cloth
English
Co-published with Key Porter Books Ltd. To outsiders the Arctic is a region that is both real and imagined. This book is informed by a sense of history as a process that explains how the Arctic came to be as it is, as well as how it came to be imagined by those who live to the south.The author paints a vivid portrait of the Arctic through its history, from the Ice Age to the movement of Vikings farmers across the North Atlantic islands, to the long and arduous searches for sea-passages to the north of Asia and America.