International Polar Institute

The International Polar Institute publishes academic works focusing on the Inuit people and Greenland, as well as poems and folklore from the polar regions. These books capture ways of living that aren’t typically well known to others in the world, and seeks to promote the bountiful history of people living in the arctic’s northern hemisphere.

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Karma Goat

by Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs

Price: $20.00

ISBN: 9798988473237

Pub Date: 2024-07-20

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

128 Pages

Karmageitin and Gentukamarið are interconnected poems and a play exploring female identity and memory through intertwined narratives.Karmageitin (Karma Goat) and Gentukamarið (“A Girl’s Room")...

A Girl's Room

by Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs

Price: $20.00

ISBN: 9798988473244

Pub Date: 2024-07-20

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

128 Pages

Karmageitin and Gentukamarið explore female identity through interconnected poems and a play with non-linear narratives.Karmageitin (Karma Goat) and Gentukamarið (“A Girl’s Room") are a literary...

Crooked on the Stretcher Board

Collected Essays on Gwich'in History, Language and Folk Culture

by Craig Mishler

With Kenneth Drizhuu Frank

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9798988473220

Pub Date: 2024-02-28

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: International Polar Institute

432 Pages

“Mishler’s decades of commitment, his long affiliation with the Gwich’in communities and research collaborations with [Kenneth] Frank and other Gwich’in knowledge keepers is evident throughout...

Suntaste

by Rannvá Mortensen

Translated by Matthew Landrum

Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9781736690277

Pub Date: 2023-05-16

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

112 Pages

This book is the first in a series of Faroese literature in translation by IPI Press.

Archaeology of Bronze Age Mongolia

A Deer Stone Diary

by William Fitzhugh

Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781736690284

Pub Date: 2023-04-20

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

280 Pages

In the 1930s the famous Smithsonian archaeologist Henry B. Collins discovered 2000 year old Eskimo cultures by excavating ancient sites in the Bering Sea region. Since then, archaeologists have pieced together a detailed history of how Eskimos spread east along the arctic coasts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland to become the region’s Inuit peoples.

Marrying Mongolia

A Memoir

by Sas Carey

Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9781736690260

Pub Date: 2023-02-06

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

304 Pages

Sas Carey is a healer, humanist, filmmaker and child of the '50s. She learns to overcomes cultural expectations, leads others to achieve the same, and integrates herself anew.

Northern Light

My Life Behind a Lens

by Wilfred E. Richard

Introduction by William Fitzhugh

Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9781736690239

Pub Date: 2022-05-19

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

202 Pages

The communal spirit of the North leads to a reexamination of the destructive behaviors of dominant cultures.

Rise Up

by Nauja Lynge

Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781736690215

Pub Date: 2021-12-08

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

256 Pages

This novel exposes a captivating narrative about identity, social heritage, and personal development, and about stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.

The Story of Katrine

by Maliaraq Vebaek

Price: $20.00

ISBN: 9780996748094

Pub Date: 2021-08-05

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

128 Pages

A dramatic and sad tale of cultural unity and oppression of women. This story, which is fictionalized here, is unfortunately not unknown for Greenlanders in Denmark.

The New Perlustration of Greenland

by Hans Egede

Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781736690208

Pub Date: 2021-07-08

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

224 Pages

The history of modern Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) can be traced to Hans Egede's voyage in 1721. He discovered no survivors of the old colonists, but stayed to found his own settlement at Godthåb (now Nuuk) and to begin the development of the country and its Inuit people.

The Native Greenlander

Folktales of Greenland

Edited by Heinrich Rink

Illustrated by Aron of Kangeq

Price: $20.00

ISBN: 9780996748087

Pub Date: 2020-01-15

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

192 Pages

The remarkable oral tradition of the Inuit, unaffected by few outside influences, is traced through their history on the land and addresses both spirtual and cultural practices. Many of the stories describe the clashes between the Norse and the Inuit. Collected by Heinrich Rink,this is the translation of the first book printed in Greenland.

Between Sea and Glacier

Greenland in a Changing World

by Wilfred Richard

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780996748056

Pub Date: 2019-04-19

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: International Polar Institute

256 Pages

"The people of Greenland possess a robust spirit, born of the land, which speaks to me. At this time of the Age of Man, the Anthropocene, of human-induced climate change, I recognize that a tradition of respect for the land prevails in Greenland.

The Man Who Became a Caribou

by Craig Mishler and Kenneth Frank

Price: $37.50

ISBN: 9780996748070

Pub Date: 2019-01-11

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

496 Pages

The goal of The Man Who Became a Caribou is to transmit to the reader the vast knowledge of the Gwich’in of caribou and its role in their lives, how it shapes their worldview and how they live and how it is used.

On Their Way

by Juaaka Lyberth

Price: $20.00

ISBN: 9780996748049

Pub Date: 2018-12-05

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

256 Pages

Paul Erik returns to Nuuk after spending the summer in his hometown of Uummannaq, Greenland. In Nuuk he attends high school where people from all over the country are housed in dormitories. But the school systems are Danish – and not adapted to the life and circumstances in Greenland, and the young grow increasingly frustrated.

The Right to a Father

by Anne Sofie Hardenberg

Other Pia Christensen Bang

Translated by Susan Stanley

Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9780996748032

Pub Date: 2018-06-05

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

144 Pages

A fatherless Danish/Greenlandic girl exemplifies a generation of outcast mixed blood children denied their legal dual citizenship rights

Narwhal

Revealing an Arctic Legend

Edited by William Fitzhugh and Martin T. Nweeia

Other Kirk Johnson

Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9780996748018

Pub Date: 2017-12-12

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

229 Pages

Narwhal tells the story of the whale that has captured the imagination of the world for centuriesit truly reveals an Arctic legend

The Meaning of Ice

People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities

Edited by Shari Fox Gearheard, Lene Kielsen Holm, Henry Huntington, Joe Mello Leavitt and Andrew R. Mahoney

Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780996193856

Pub Date: 2017-09-19

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

366 Pages

The Inuit relationship with sea ice told through stories, artwork and photographs

The Will of the Unseen

by Hans Lynge

Illustrated by Hans Lynge

Other Kirsten Thisted

Translated by Susan Stanley

Price: $20.00

ISBN: 9780996748025

Pub Date: 2017-11-07

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

160 Pages

The first English translation of a seminal Greenlandic novel

Immap sikua pisariaqartipparput (The Meaning of Ice) Greenlandic Edition

People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities

Edited by Shari Gearheard, Lene Kielsen Holm, Henry Huntington, Joe Mello Leavitt and Andrew R. Mahoney

Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780996193863

Pub Date: 2017-09-19

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

366 Pages

The Inuit relationship with sea ice told through stories, artwork, and photographs

Sikuup tukingit (The Meaning of Ice) Inuktitut Edition

People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities

Edited by Shari Gearheard, Lene Kielsen Holm, Henry Huntington, Joe Mello Leavitt and Andrew R. Mahoney

Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780996193887

Pub Date: 2017-09-19

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

366 Pages

The Inuit relationship with sea ice told through stories, artwork, and photographs

Sivuninga Sikum (The Meaning of Ice) Inupiaq Edition

People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities

Edited by Shari Gearheard, Lene Kielsen Holm, Henry Huntington, Joe Mello Leavitt and Andrew R. Mahoney

Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780996193870

Pub Date: 2017-09-19

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

366 Pages

The Inuit relationship with sea ice told through stories, artwork, and photographs

Ivalu’s Color

by Nauja Lynge

Other Iben Bjørnsson

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780996748001

Pub Date: 2017-06-23

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

224 Pages

Nauja Lynge's novel is a call for temperance in the ongoing rush for Greenlandic independence from Denmark

Tuumarsi

by Frederik Nielsen

Translated by Torben Hutchings

Other Christian Berthelsen and Knud Rasmussen

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780996193832

Pub Date: 2016-12-13

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

128 Pages

Famine moves a Greenlandic family into a new settlement in the 1850s, where the joys and tragedies of pre-Christian times are depicted

Kayakmen

Tales of Greenland’s Seal Hunters

Edited by Signe Rink

Translated by Torben Hutchings

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780996193849

Pub Date: 2016-12-13

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

128 Pages

Transcribed directly from hunters, the stories described here relate adventures in the hazardous environment of Greenland in the mid-nineteenth century

Singnagtugaq

A Greenlanders Dream

by Mathias Storch

Translated by Torben Hutchings

Other Knud Rasmussen

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780982170380

Pub Date: 2016-05-10

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

128 Pages

The first original novel in Greenlandic, published in 1915, portraying a vision of a future, modern Greenland free of colonial humiliation and poverty

The Polar Eskimos

by Erik Holtved

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780982915509

Pub Date: 2011-09-13

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: International Polar Institute

228 Pages

A rich and astounding collection of stories transcribed directly from the Inuit of Greenland in the 1930s

Local Knowledge

Living Resources and Natural Assets in Greenland

by H. C. Petersen

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780982170328

Pub Date: 2010-12-14

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: International Polar Institute

470 Pages

Spanning a 60-year period, Petersen, a native Greenlander, has systematically studied climate, settlement and natural life in his native land

Tales of Yukaghir

Lamut and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia

by Waldemar Bogaras

Introduction by Lenore Grenoble

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780982170342

Pub Date: 2009-09-25

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

336 Pages

Tales of adventure and courage among the peoples of Eastern Siberia

Inuit Poems and Songs

Folk Poetry of Greenland

Edited by Willaim Thalbitzer

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780996193825

Pub Date: 2016-07-03

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

128 Pages

“These poems erupted in the East Greenlanders heart—the human sea at the outer limit of the

The Diary of Johannes Hansen

Expedition to Eastern Greenland: 1884–1885

by Johannes Hansen

Translated by L.S. Johanson

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780982915592

Pub Date: 2016-03-03

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

128 Pages

A trip around Greenland to a distinct culture with no prior contact with the outside world.

Eden of the North

by Signe Rink

Translated by L.S. Johanson

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780982915561

Pub Date: 2014-10-24

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

192 Pages

First English translation of this 19th century novel tracing the relationship between traditional Greenlandic life and the interaction with the culture of their Danish colonizers

Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut

Volume 2 - Way of Life

Other Alec Gordon

Edited by Minnie Grey and Marianne Stenbaek

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780982915516

Pub Date: 2011-09-13

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: International Polar Institute

292 Pages

Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut

Volume I - Stories and Tales

Edited by George Berthe and Minnie Grey

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780982170359

Pub Date: 2010-12-14

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: International Polar Institute

288 Pages

Vikings of To-day

or Life and Medical Work among the Fishermen of Labrador

by Wilfred Grenfell

Introduction by Marianne Stenbaek

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780982170335

Pub Date: 2009-09-25

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

304 Pages

Journals in Greenland

1770-1778

by Hans Egede

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780982170304

Pub Date: 2009-06-30

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

320 Pages

A firsthand account of previously almost inaccessible eastern Greenland

Inuit Folk-Tales

Edited by Knud Rasmussen

Introduction by Bergit Kleist Pedersen and Jette Rygaard

Other W. Worster

Translated by W. Worster

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780982170311

Pub Date: 2009-06-30

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

320 Pages

Back in print, Eskimo folklore collected by pioneering northern anthropologist Knud Rasmussen

The Veins of the Heart to the Pinnacle of the Mind

Taqqat uummammut aqqutaannut takorluukkat apuuffiannut

by Aqqaluk Lynge

Price: $28.00

ISBN: 9781605857930

Pub Date: 2009-02-01

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: International Polar Institute

136 Pages

Moving poetic expressions of the very close interrelationships between culture and politics in modern Greenland by a gifted Greenlandic poet

The Moravian Beginnings of Canadian Inuit Literature

Other Henrik Wilhjelm and Greg Colley

Price: $15.00

ISBN: 9780982170366

Pub Date: 2010-05-11

Format: Paperback

Imprint: International Polar Institute

112 Pages

Catalog for an exhibition held at McGill University, February to April 2009, exploring the extensive holdings from its Rare Books Special Collections.

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