Product Description: This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and members of fifty native nations competed and cooperated...read more

Product Description: Arctic scholar and voyage John Bockstoce here recounts 10 passages he made into northern latitudes during the 1990s in his sturdy motor-sailer Belvedere. From Svalbard, north of Norway, to Scotland and the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador-as well as a trip through the Northwest passage with William Simon-Bookstoce and his crews tracked the courses of Norse voyagers, and German submariners in this exciting account of human activity and natural phenomena in the frozen north...read more

Product Description: In this photographic essay, John Bockstoce presents vivid images from four decades of sailing, researching, and photographing in the Arctic. He has journeyed in Alaska and the North Pacific, the Canadian Arctic, and the North Atlantic...read more

Product Description: With an extensive summary of previous research on this Bering Sea coastal site, the author discusses six main phases of occupation, dating from 2000 B.C. to the modern era, and attempts to answer questions concerning the cultural and artifactual changes that have taken place along the Bering Sea coast...read more