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The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
  • Author(s): Caroline Van Hemert
  • Location(s): Alaska, Arctic
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist’s human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly...

The Terror

The Terror
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Gothic
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition in search of the fabled North-West Passage had every expectation of triumph. But for almost two years his ships HMS Terror and Erebus have been trapped in...

Under a Pole Star

Under a Pole Star
  • Author(s): Stef Penney
  • Location(s): Arctic, Greenland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. Years later, in 1892, determination and chance lead her back to northern Greenland as a scientist at the head of a British expedition, defying the expectations of...

Where Blood Runs Cold

Where Blood Runs Cold
  • Author(s): Giles Kristian
  • Location(s): Arctic, Norway
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A heart-pounding survival thriller set in the starkly beautiful far north of Norway. Gripping and adrenalin-fuelled, yet also written with a tenderness that warms even the most chilling of chases.’ LUCY CLARKE, author of The Castaways Erik Amdahl and...

Woman at Sea

Woman at Sea
  • Author(s): Catherine Poulain
  • Location(s): Arctic Ocean, Alaska, Pacific Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lili is a runaway. She’s left behind her native France to go in search of freedom, of adventure, of life. Her search takes her to Kodiak, Alaska, home to a ragtag community of fishermen, army vets and drifters who...

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