📚 The Arctic

The frozen north: the ice and its animals, the expeditions, the Inuit home, and the warming on every front page.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject arctic regions in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Journey to the shores of the Polar sea, in 1819-20-21-22	John Franklin	1823	71
	Arctic Dreams	Barry Lopez	1986	31
	Arctic & Antarctic	Barbara Taylor	1995	17
	First Crossing of Greenland	Fridtjof Nansen	2001	13
	Fauna boreali-americana	Sir John Richardson	1829	11
	The Great Frozen Sea	Albert Hastings Markham	2004	11
	Arctic Communities Past and Present	Cindy Jenson-Elliott	2014	11
	The desperate people	Farley Mowat	1959	10
	The Arctic Grail	Pierre Berton	1988	8
	Climate of the Arctic	Rajmund Przybylak	2003	8
	Encyclopedia of the Arctic	Mark Nuttall	2004	8
	The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-96. Scientific Results	Fridtjof Nansen	1971	7
	A Northern Alphabet	Ted Harrison	1982	7
	Arctic adventure	Peter Freuchen	1935	6
	Whales of the Arctic	Sara Swan Miller	2009	6
	North	Nick Dowson	2011	6
	Avati	Mia Pelletier	2012	6
	Across Arctic America	Knud Rasmussen	1927	5
	North to the Night	Alvah Simon	1998	5
	Bound by Ice	Sandra Neil Wallace	2017	5
	An account of the Arctic regions	William Scoresby	1820	4
	Memoirs of Hans Hendrik, the Arctic traveller, serving under Kane, Hayes, Hall and Nares, 1853-1876	Hans Hendrik	1878	4
	North of the Circle	Frank Illingworth	1951	4
	The Russians in the Arctic	Terence E. Armstrong	1958	4
	Polar Bears and the Arctic (Magic Tree House Research Guide)	Mary Pope Osborne	2007	4
	Sir John Franklin	Anders Knudsen	2007	4
	Where do polar bears live?	Sarah L. Thomson	2009	4
	After the Ice	Alun M. Anderson	2009	4
	The Frigid Arctic Ocean	Doreen Gonzales	2013	4
	Arctic manual	Vilhjalmur Stefansson	1944	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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