Churchill

The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

Stephen R. Bown

The Hudson's Bay Company's story is Canada's origin story, dramatic and far more complicated than the postcards suggest. Bown traces its fur-trading beginnings through two centuries of contested leadership, ending with a monopoly that had reshaped the entire northern half of the continent.

A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic

E.C. Pielou

A field companion to the Circumpolar North, covering its geography and climate, plants, birds, and wildlife. It is the book to carry when you want to understand not just what you are seeing in Churchill, but why it is there.

After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America

E.C. Pielou

Eighteen thousand years ago an immense sheet of ice covered all of present-day Canada and the northern United States. Pielou traces how that harsh, scoured terrain slowly became the living landscape travelers encounter in Churchill today.

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

Drawn from fifteen extended journeys across the Canadian far north, this National Book Award winner is a meditation on an often overlooked world: its terrain, its wildlife, and the Inuit communities and explorers who have called these icy shores home.

Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon

Michael Engelhard

The polar bear as apex predator and nomad of the sea ice, and as something more, a source of wonder and fascination that has shaped how we tell stories about nature and about ourselves. Meticulously researched and illustrated with more than 160 images.

Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye

Zac Unger

Churchill is the polar bear capital of the world, and for one unforgettable bear season, Unger moved his family from Oakland, California, to live inside that reality. Equal parts travelogue and family story, told with wry, close-up honesty.

The Last Gentleman Adventurer

Edward Beauclerk Maurice

A coming-of-age account of a young man sent to work at an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic. It is the story of a harsh, unfamiliar world that became, unexpectedly, a home.

The Cage: A Novel

Audrey Schulman

Beryl Findham is a nature photographer, small in stature and prone to anxiety, who spends her days photographing zoo animals from the safety of Boston. Then she joins an all-male expedition departing a small Manitoba town on Hudson Bay, with one goal: getting close to a polar bear in the wild.