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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

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

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

Charting the Russian Northern Sea Route

The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition 1910-1915

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