Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia Available to Purchase

William James Mills, the Librarian and Keeper of the collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, a frequent visitor to the Arctic Institute in Calgary, an active participant in Arctic symposia, a lecturer on Antarctic history on board tourist cruise ships and co‐author of an earlier text (Mills and Speak, 1998), was the perfect choice to compile this exhaustive Encyclopedia. Covering the history of Arctic and Antarctic discovery and exploration in 511 A‐Z cross‐referenced and well‐documented biographical and geographical entries, and securely based on Holland (1994) and Headland (1989), it ranges in time from Pytheas...