New hardcover edition of Henson's autobiography should take the Henson, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (Invisible Cities Nevertheless, the text is freshly set in handsome and readable type, and together with the lovely cover image of an iceberg, make this an ideal edition for the contemporary reader.

There is, alas, no introduction or notes, although the front and rear fly–leaves offer the reader at least a brief outline of Collins's career. Wilkie Collins's novella, based upon the play he wrote in collaboration with Dickens in 1857, had been out of print for nearly a century before Hesperus Classics came through with this handsomely produced edition. Wilkie Collins, The Frozen Deep (Hesperus Classics) Paul Dry Books has come to the rescue with this handsome new edition. Nadolny's brilliant novel, by far the best fictionalization of the career of Sir John Franklin, was unfortunately allowed to fall out of print by Penguin Books. Sten Nadolny, The Discovery of Slowness (Paul Dry Books) The only thing missing are the old steel-plate illustrations by Riou, but the availability of this fine new edition will, hopefully, restore it to its rightful place as one of the first - and best - Arctic adventure stories.

The older editions were rife with errors in addition to a new and lucid translation, Butcher provides a most helpful introduction and notes. This new edition of Verne's classic, freshly translated into English by William Butcher, is the first such in more than a century, and could hardly be more welcome. Jules Verne, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Oxford University Press) Would most like to see reprinted (reader suggestions of additions Such works, and to a list of works still unavailable which we The Arctic Book Review dedicates this page to brief notices of Otherwise have to be sought among rare book dealers or libraries. New editions, making available classic texts which would The subject, some of these titles are coming back into print in New Editions of Books of Arctic and Antarctic Interest: 1999-2005īooks on the subject of the Arctic, its peoples, and exploration

The arctic grail by pierre berton