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Kent, Rockwell. New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930.
  • 1929 Private US Voyage to Greenland (aboard Direction with Arthur Allen and Rockwell Kent).
  • Arctic Reading: United States
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An account of Kent’s small-boat journey with Arthur Allen on the yacht Direction from New York to Greenland, its wreck, and other adventures.

Icebound in the Siberian Arctic: The Story of the Last Cruise of the Fur Schooner Nanuk and the International Search for Famous Arctic Pilot Carl Ben Eielson.

Gleason, Robert J. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Northwest Pub. Co., 1982.
  • 1929 Siberian Journey by Robert Gleason (aboard Nanuk).
  • Arctic Reading: United States
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A fur trader who wintered over at North Cape when his ship was iced in near the Bering Straits tried to rescue Eielson who died in a Siberian air crash while delivering furs to Chukchi Eskimos in 1929.

Green Seas and White Ice: Far North with Captain Mac.

MacMillan, Miriam. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948.
  • 1940-41 US Private Expedition of Donald MacMillan (aboard Bowdoin).
  • Arctic Reading: United States
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The wife of Donald MacMillan gives this account of her voyage to the Arctic on the Bowdoin in 1940 or 41.

Etah and Beyond: Or, Life within Twelve Degrees of the Pole.

MacMillan, Donald Baxter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.
  • 1926-27 US Northern Greenland Expedition (commanded by Donald MacMillan aboard Bowdoin).
  • Arctic Reading: United States
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A 1926-27 Greenland expedition aboard the Bowdoin, with the purpose of setting up new magnetic stations and resettling old ones.

Icy Hell: Experiences of a News Real Cameraman in the Aleutian Islands, Eastern Siberia and the Arctic Fringe of Alaska.

Hudson, Will E. London: Constable & Company, 1937.
  • 1930s? US Hunting Trip to Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and Siberia.
  • Arctic Reading: United States
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p. 59: A few hours out of Petropavlosk as we headed north we found the ice! Into the Arctic ice at last! What a thrill, to say the least. All of the polar stories that I had read came back to me. From the time I was a small boy and read my first stories of adventures in the ice I had dreamed and longed for the experience of being in this ice wilderness. Mental pictures of Deschev, Bering, Cook, Kane, Amundsen, Scott, Peary, Shackleton, Stefansson and the host of others who have written their names in the pages of North and South Polar exploration passed in review.

Across the Top of Russia

Petrow, Richard. . New York: David McKay, 1967.
  • 1965 US Coast Guard Surveillance Voyage to Russia’s Kara Sea (aboard USCGC Windward).
  • Arctic Reading: United States
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On the 1965 Coast Guard icebreaker, CGS Northwind, trip to the Kara Sea for scientific and spying purposes.

Reminiscences of service aboard USS Flasher (SSN 613) as yeoman submariner in 1966-69.

Gleave, Dale.
  • 1966-68 US Deployment of USS Flasher to Kamchatka and Beyond.
  • Arctic Reading: United States
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The sub adopted as its honorary submariner the novelist Louis L'Amour, author of Western thrillers. Dale was the yeoman who corresponded with him, sent him a letter when they crossed the equator, and L'Amour in turn sent signed copies of all his work to the ship.