Journey Into the Arctic

Bryan Alexander. Oxford University Press, $19.95 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-19-522005-6

Young readers can travel due north in Journey into the Arctic by Bryan and Cherry Alexander. From a North Greenlandic village to the Canadian Arctic to Siberia and the North Pole, the route readers travel offers full-page vistas via the authors' crisp, clear photographs of the animals, indigenous peoples and stunning landscapes. One spread (""Polluting the Arctic"") deals with environmental effects of oil drilling and global warming on the region's ecosystem.

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