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William Barr

William Barr specializes in geomorphology and has, for the past thirty years, focused his research on the history of Arctic exploration. He has published fourteen books, including translations from German, French, and Russian, and more than a hundred articles. He is author of From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease 1836-1839.

Books by William Barr

John Rae, Arctic Explorer

The Unfinished Autobiography

by (author) John Rae
edited by William Barr

Polaris

The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73

original author Emil Bessels
edited and translated by William Barr

Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884

Journals and Letters

edited by Ludger Muller-Wille
translated by William Barr

Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884

Journals and Letters

edited by Ludger Muller-Wille
translated by William Barr

Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes

Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883–84)

translated by William Barr
edited by Bernd Gieseking & Ludguer Müller-Wille

Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor

The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991

original author Aleksei Mikhailovich Ermolaev & V.D. Dibner
edited and translated by William Barr

Resurrecting Dr. Moss

The Life and Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880

by (author) Paul C. Appleton
edited by William Barr

Arctic Hell-Ship

The Voyage of HMS Enterprise 1850-1855

by (author) William Barr

Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants

The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP

by (author) William Barr

War North of 80

The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II

by (author) Wilhelm Dege
edited and translated by William Barr

From Barrow to Boothia

The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836-1839

by (author) William Barr

Canadian Nordicity

It's Your North, Too

by (author) Louis-Edmond Hamelin
translated by William Barr

Franz Boas with the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884

Journals and Letters

edited by Ludger Muller-Wille
translated by William Barr

Overland to Starvation Cove

With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880

by (author) Heinrich Klutschak
edited and translated by William Barr

Charting the Russian Northern Sea Route

The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition 1910-1915

by (author) L.M. Starokadomskiy
translated by William Barr