p. 16-17, for her journey north: Accordingly I packed into one pocket of the duffel bag the Compleat Explorer’s Equipment…. The other pocket was filled with notebooks, typing paper, pencils and a little library of books and newspapers which I would leave with the people who were starving, I was sure, for culture.
I Went to the Soviet Arctic.
Gruber, Ruth. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.
- 1938 Russian.
- Arctic Reading: Russia
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Life on an Icefloe.
Papanin, Ivan Dmitrievich. Translated from the Russian by Fanny Smitham. London: Hutchinson, 1947?.
- 1938 Russian.
- Arctic Reading: Russia
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A Soviet paean to Stalin and the system, claiming Stalin’s great interest in Arctic science. There is a heavy dose of communist Stalinism written by a rather pedestrian author but still there is some interest simply in seeing what they were reading.