{"id":21326,"date":"2026-10-07T16:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.latitudeblanche.com\/?p=21326"},"modified":"2026-10-09T23:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:59:37","slug":"polarfront-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.latitudeblanche.com\/en\/polarfront-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Polarfront\u2019s ideal library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mremckqj-e87756cb5689f93d4c08754e77fd838b\">\n.avia-section.av-mremckqj-e87756cb5689f93d4c08754e77fd838b{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/www.latitudeblanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Groenlandpolarfront25sur89.jpg);\nbackground-position:50% 50%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-mremckqj-e87756cb5689f93d4c08754e77fd838b main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-50 av-height-50  container_wrap fullsize'  data-section-bg-repeat='no-repeat' data-av_minimum_height_pc='50' data-av_min_height_opt='50'><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-21326'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-21326'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mr9on0dp-5990644ca9d4c1188ba73c8fa28bebc9\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-mr9on0dp-5990644ca9d4c1188ba73c8fa28bebc9{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-mr9on0dp-5990644ca9d4c1188ba73c8fa28bebc9 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-mr9on0dp-5990644ca9d4c1188ba73c8fa28bebc9 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-mr9on0dp-5990644ca9d4c1188ba73c8fa28bebc9 av-special-heading-h1 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >WHAT TO READ BEFORE A VOYAGE TO THE FAR NORTH? <\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-muy5rgm1-0cd16cc71a1aa74b2804d31e7e460294\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-muy5rgm1-0cd16cc71a1aa74b2804d31e7e460294{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-muy5rgm1-0cd16cc71a1aa74b2804d31e7e460294 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-muy5rgm1-0cd16cc71a1aa74b2804d31e7e460294 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-muy5rgm1-0cd16cc71a1aa74b2804d31e7e460294 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_textblock '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >POLARFRONT\u2019S IDEAL LIBRARY<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-6rywtlx-f0f6b26d74c866e78b4f10533b5e2cc3 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>There are a thousand ways to prepare for a voyage to the Far North. Poring over a map, dreaming over photographs, following the weather, imagining the fjords, the glaciers and the sea ice\u2026 And then there are books.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long before you cross the Arctic Circle, literature can already give you a feel for these lands: the silence, the cold, the vastness, but also the human stories that unfolded there. Explorers heading into the unknown, trappers cut off for months on end, sailors trapped in the ice, Inuit and S\u00e1mi peoples, scientists, adventurers of the past and travelers of today have all helped tell the story of the North.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And aboard Polarfront, there is no shortage of chances to read. Settled in the Coriolis lounge as the scenery glides by, in your suite after a day of exploring or out on deck when the weather allows, opening a book about the very lands you are traveling through gives reading a very special flavor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So here is our ideal library to take along on a voyage to Svalbard, Greenland or northern Norway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"native \" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  class='hr av-gql82t-45a94c0c2423b1793862157c4bd4f3d0 hr-default  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_heading '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4jes8sl-f32441e83777943a457a659e59401712\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-4jes8sl-f32441e83777943a457a659e59401712{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-4jes8sl-f32441e83777943a457a659e59401712 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-4jes8sl-f32441e83777943a457a659e59401712 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-4jes8sl-f32441e83777943a457a659e59401712 av-special-heading-h2 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_textblock '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >READING THE FAR NORTH<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-muy5tgwl-a6411fdd0ef6716808baffe777c5cdb4 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explorers\u2019 accounts, novels, crime fiction, memoirs, Inuit literature\u2026 Our selection deliberately mixes genres and eras. Because there is no single way to tell the story of the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some books make you want to set off. Others help you understand the history of the lands you travel through. Some make you physically feel the cold and the isolation. And others give a voice to those for whom the Far North is not a destination, but a land where their people have lived for generations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"native \" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-muy5v59d-f38baa0d0ecae049391df0bd2797a619\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-muy5v59d-f38baa0d0ecae049391df0bd2797a619{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-muy5v59d-f38baa0d0ecae049391df0bd2797a619 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-muy5v59d-f38baa0d0ecae049391df0bd2797a619 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-muy5v59d-f38baa0d0ecae049391df0bd2797a619 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >SOAKING UP THE COLD AND THE LANDSCAPES<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-muy5vnjq-6d0550d28e7278bc8bcf6ed4c8be53e0 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>To Build a Fire \u2014 Jack London<\/strong><br \/>\nA few pages are all it takes to feel the power of the cold and the fragility of human beings against the elements. An absolute classic of Far North literature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Un monde sans rivage (A World Without Shores) \u2014 H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Gaudy<\/strong><br \/>\nH\u00e9l\u00e8ne Gaudy revisits the incredible polar expedition of Salomon August Andr\u00e9e, who set off from Svalbard by balloon in 1897 hoping to reach the North Pole. A fascinating story, and also a beautiful meditation on exploration, dreams, images and vastness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The North Water \u2014 Ian McGuire<\/strong><br \/>\nA dark, powerful novel that takes the reader aboard a 19th-century whaling ship in Arctic waters. An almost physical immersion in the sea, the cold and the violence of a world where nature makes the rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Travels in Alaska \u2014 John Muir<\/strong><br \/>\nFor lovers of nature and wide-open landscapes. Glaciers, fjords, forests and vast wilderness, described by one of America\u2019s great naturalists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"native \" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-muy5wirc-55e22710bf11f85c2fe2ff5aad771dc9\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-muy5wirc-55e22710bf11f85c2fe2ff5aad771dc9{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-muy5wirc-55e22710bf11f85c2fe2ff5aad771dc9 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-muy5wirc-55e22710bf11f85c2fe2ff5aad771dc9 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-muy5wirc-55e22710bf11f85c2fe2ff5aad771dc9 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE GREAT EXPLORERS<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-muy6lyur-902b2d06e15c4e3dc4f872fb367bab03 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Arctic has inspired some of the greatest adventure stories in history. Aboard Polarfront, as glaciers drift by or the ship nears the sea ice, these stories suddenly become very real.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Le Marcheur du p\u00f4le (The Pole Walker) \u2014 Jean-Louis \u00c9tienne<\/strong><br \/>\nJean-Louis \u00c9tienne recounts his solo expedition to the North Pole in 1986. Cold, solitude, effort, doubt and a fascination with the vast polar wilderness: a great classic of contemporary French exploration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Bor\u00e9al and Banquise (Pack Ice) \u2014 Paul-\u00c9mile Victor<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo books that open the door to the world of the man who devoted much of his life to Greenland, to the Inuit peoples and to French polar exploration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Le Roman des p\u00f4les (The Story of the Poles) \u2014 Fridtjof Nansen, Roald Amundsen, Jean-Baptiste Charcot<\/strong><br \/>\nA wonderful introduction to the heroic age of polar exploration, bringing together accounts by some of the greatest names in that story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>L\u2019Aventure des p\u00f4les (The Adventure of the Poles) \u2014 Farid Abdelouahab<\/strong><br \/>\nAn accessible look at the history of exploration, built around the travel journals of the great polar explorers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>South \u2014 Ernest Shackleton<\/strong><br \/>\nEven though this adventure takes place on the other side of the globe, in Antarctica, you cannot talk about polar literature without mentioning Shackleton. His expedition remains one of the most extraordinary stories of survival and leadership in the history of exploration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>L\u00e0 o\u00f9 le temps et la glace sont les seuls ma\u00eetres (Where Time and Ice Are the Only Masters)<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished in 2025, this book looks back at the expeditions across the Arctic between 1818 and 1876. A fine way to go back to the origins of modern polar exploration.<\/p>\n<div id=\"native \" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m4x58s-6f4d35d807ecbcd8d1cc45f63fd51e56\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-m4x58s-6f4d35d807ecbcd8d1cc45f63fd51e56{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-m4x58s-6f4d35d807ecbcd8d1cc45f63fd51e56 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-m4x58s-6f4d35d807ecbcd8d1cc45f63fd51e56 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-m4x58s-6f4d35d807ecbcd8d1cc45f63fd51e56 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >SVALBARD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ARCTIC PIONEERS<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-iewgz0-cdb18855fd9edd1eed22689509ded549 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Polarfront sails among the fjords of Spitsbergen, the glaciers and the old trapping grounds, it is hard not to think of those who traveled through these same landscapes long before us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Voyage d\u2019une femme au Spitzberg (A Woman\u2019s Journey to Spitsbergen) \u2014 L\u00e9onie d\u2019Aunet<\/strong><br \/>\nA must-read. In 1839, L\u00e9onie d\u2019Aunet set out on an expedition that took her all the way to Spitsbergen. Her account offers a gripping glimpse of the Svalbard of the early explorers, carried by a female voice that is astonishingly modern for her time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Four Against the Arctic \u2014 David Roberts<\/strong><br \/>\nThe extraordinary story of four Russian sailors shipwrecked on Spitsbergen in the 18th century and forced to survive there for several years. A fascinating survival story that takes on a whole new dimension when you experience the isolation of these coasts for yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>L\u2019Exp\u00e9dition (The Expedition) \u2014 Monica Kristensen<\/strong><br \/>\nA crime novel set in Svalbard, written by a Norwegian glaciologist and polar explorer. Mystery, icy landscapes and an end-of-the-world atmosphere: an excellent read to get into the spirit of Spitsbergen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Damien, du Spitzberg au Cap Horn (Damien, from Spitsbergen to Cape Horn) \u2014 G\u00e9rard Janichon<\/strong><br \/>\nA great tale of sailing and adventure. Aboard <em>Damien<\/em>, G\u00e9rard Janichon and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poncet set off on an extraordinary voyage that took them, among other places, into the waters of Spitsbergen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Le Passeport de Monsieur Nansen (Mr. Nansen\u2019s Passport) \u2014 Alexis Jenni<\/strong><br \/>\nA lovely way to approach Fridtjof Nansen from a different angle: explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian, whose story goes far beyond his polar expeditions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"native \" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-muy6b1rv-e6289cbb7599d0069812c516f6d9a594\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-muy6b1rv-e6289cbb7599d0069812c516f6d9a594{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-muy6b1rv-e6289cbb7599d0069812c516f6d9a594 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-muy6b1rv-e6289cbb7599d0069812c516f6d9a594 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-muy6b1rv-e6289cbb7599d0069812c516f6d9a594 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >GREENLAND: DISCOVERING THE ARCTIC FROM THE INSIDE<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-muy6bxig-b7d1fe0571ab7068c02b63b76eb38721 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Greenland, perhaps more than anywhere else, it is worth looking beyond the explorers\u2019 accounts. The history of this land is inseparable from that of the people who live there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The Last Kings of Thule \u2014 Jean Malaurie<\/strong><br \/>\nA foundational work. Jean Malaurie recounts his stay with the Inughuit of northwestern Greenland in the early 1950s. At once an exploration narrative, a human adventure and an ethnographic record, this book remains a major reference for understanding the Arctic through the people who live there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Sanaaq \u2014 Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk<\/strong><br \/>\nA major work of Inuit literature. Through the daily life of Sanaaq and her family in Nunavik, the reader discovers the Arctic from the inside, far from the traditional gaze of Western explorers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Le R\u00eave d\u2019un Groenlandais (A Greenlander\u2019s Dream) \u2014 Mathias Storch<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished in the early 20th century, this book is considered the first Greenlandic novel. A particularly interesting read for hearing a voice from Greenland itself and discovering Greenlandic society at a turning point in its history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>La Fille du grand hiver (Daughter of the Great Winter) \u2014 Isabelle Autissier<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished in 2026, this novel is inspired by the story of Arnarulunnguaq, a young Inuit woman who accompanied Knud Rasmussen on his great expedition across Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in the 1920s. A novelistic way of giving its rightful place back to a figure long left in the shadow of the great explorers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Briser la glace (Breaking the Ice) \u2014 Julien Blanc-Gras<\/strong><br \/>\nA change of tone with this account of a voyage to Greenland aboard a sailboat. Julien Blanc-Gras tells the story of his adventure with humor, curiosity and self-deprecation. A light, funny and wonderfully effective read that will make you want to set sail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00cdmaqa: A Greenland Adventure \u2014 Flemming Jensen<\/strong><br \/>\nA funny, offbeat novel that approaches Greenland far from heroic tales of exploration. Another way to discover Greenlandic culture and society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>De pierre et d\u2019os (Of Stone and Bone) \u2014 B\u00e9reng\u00e8re Cournut<\/strong><br \/>\nA poetic, sensory novel inspired by Inuit cultures. A book that gives pride of place to the elements, animals, beliefs and the relationship between human beings and their environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Bor\u00e9al \u2014 Sonja Delzongle<\/strong><br \/>\nFor thriller fans: a contemporary plot set in Greenland, among icy expanses and scientific expeditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Round out your reading with Paul-\u00c9mile Victor\u2019s <strong>Bor\u00e9al<\/strong>, <strong>Banquise<\/strong> and <strong>La Civilisation du phoque<\/strong> (The Seal Civilization), to rediscover one of France\u2019s great figures in the exploration and study of Greenland.<\/p>\n<div id=\"native \" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-muy6hgg3-a345bbc49ee8e3467870ce5135c69899\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-muy6hgg3-a345bbc49ee8e3467870ce5135c69899{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-muy6hgg3-a345bbc49ee8e3467870ce5135c69899 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-muy6hgg3-a345bbc49ee8e3467870ce5135c69899 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-muy6hgg3-a345bbc49ee8e3467870ce5135c69899 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >NORWAY: BETWEEN THE SEA, LAPLAND AND THE POLAR NIGHT<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-muy6j1iu-1d6069e6f9c15c7654787ae0067280b5 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In northern Norway, books tell of another side of the Far North. That of villages clinging to the coastline, windswept islands, fishermen, reindeer herders and S\u00e1mi culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Forty Days Without Shadow \u2014 Olivier Truc<\/strong><br \/>\nProbably our top pick before a voyage to northern Norway. This crime novel takes us to Kautokeino, in the heart of Lapland, in the footsteps of the S\u00e1mi and the reindeer herders. Polar night, tundra, snowmobiles, traditions and tensions between cultural heritage and the modern world: the atmosphere of the Far North is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the good news is that the adventure continues with <strong>Le D\u00e9troit du loup<\/strong> (The Wolf\u2019s Strait), <strong>La Montagne rouge<\/strong> (The Red Mountain) and <strong>Les Chiens de Pasvik<\/strong> (The Dogs of Pasvik), which expand the world of the Reindeer Police and gradually take the reader ever farther into the far north.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The Unseen \u2014 Roy Jacobsen<\/strong><br \/>\nA magnificent novel set on a small island in northern Norway. A family lives there to the rhythm of the sea, the seasons and the storms. Understated and deeply evocative, the book beautifully captures the very special relationship that people on the Norwegian coast have with the elements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Shark Drunk \u2014 Morten A. Str\u00f8ksnes<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo friends go in search of a Greenland shark off Skrova, in the Lofoten archipelago. At once an adventure story, a meditation on the sea, a work of science and a quirky travelogue: the perfect read before sailing along the Norwegian coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Lame de feu (Blade of Fire) \u2014 Ingeborg Arvola<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1859, Brita Caisa leaves Finland with her two children and heads for Vads\u00f8, in Finnmark. A great, powerful and physical journey across the Scandinavian Far North, in which the landscapes and the elements become almost characters in their own right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>La Loi des Sames (The Law of the S\u00e1mi) \u2014 Lars Pettersson<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother way into contemporary S\u00e1mi society. 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Reading L\u00e9onie d\u2019Aunet as the mountains of Spitsbergen take shape, Jean Malaurie off the coast of Greenland or Morten A. Str\u00f8ksnes while sailing among the islands of northern Norway creates a strange dialogue between the page and the landscape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The places glimpsed in books suddenly stop being abstract. They are right there, behind the window or beyond the rail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So before you close your suitcase, save a little room for a book. It could well become one of the most precious companions of your voyage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-muy6wce4-b23fefb0594aa7a3b0677aace297e1b6\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-muy6wce4-b23fefb0594aa7a3b0677aace297e1b6{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-muy6wce4-b23fefb0594aa7a3b0677aace297e1b6 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-muy6wce4-b23fefb0594aa7a3b0677aace297e1b6 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-muy6wce4-b23fefb0594aa7a3b0677aace297e1b6 av-special-heading-h2 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >NO BOOK IN YOUR SUITCASE?<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-muy6vouy-f2c3d1feba086d81eed91e198b8626b3 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Don\u2019t worry if you have forgotten your favorite book or would rather save room in your luggage: the Polarfront library is there for you! 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