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2024 William Mills Prize Recipient

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Fossett, Renee. The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck: An Inuk Hero in Rupert’s Land, 1800-1834. Regina: University of Regina Press, May 2023. ISBN :9780889779266 (Paperback); 9780889779297 (Hardcover).

2024 William Mills Prize Honorable Mentions

Dawes, Peter, R. Expedition Relics from High Arctic Greenland: Eight Decades of Exploration History Told through 102 Objects. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, December 2022. ISBN: 978 87 635 4686 7.

Monteath, Colin. Erebus The Ice Dragon: A Portrait of an Antarctic Volcano. Auckland: Massey University Press, October 2023. ISBN: 9781991016362.

2024 William Mills Prize Nominees

*Airriess, Sarah, author and illustrator. The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel. Vol. 1, Making our Easting Down. Adapted from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. London: Indie Novella, November 2022. ISBN: 978-1638991373.

*Arbugaeva, Evgenia. Hyperborea: Stories from the Arctic. Introduction by Piers Vitebsky. New York: Thames & Hudson, October 2023. ISBN: 9780500026229.

Arnattaujuq, Germaine and Neil Christopher. Arctic Song: Creation Stories from the Arctic. Illustrated by Germaine Arnattaujuq. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, October 2023. ISBN-13: 978-1772274974 (Hardback); 978-1-77227-526-1 (EPUB).

Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav. Deer Stones of Northern Mongolia. Hanover, NH: IPI Press; and Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, June 2022. ISBN 978-1-7366902-4-6.

Burnett, Kristin and Travis Hay. Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, October 2023. ISBN: 9781772840520 (Hardback); 9781772840490 (Paperback); 9781772840506 (E-Book PDF); 9781772840513 (E-Book EPUB).

Chojecki, Jan. The Quest Chronicle: The Story of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition. Marsh Gibbon, UK: Goldcrest Books International, September 2022. ISBN: 9781913719722 (Hardback Limited Edition); 9781913719715 (Paperback).

De Pomereu, Jean and Daniella McCahey. Antarctica: A History in 100 Objects. London: Conway (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing), October 2022. ISBN: 9781844866212 (Hardback); 9781844866229 (Ebook: Epub & Mobi); 9781844866236 (Ebook: PDF).

Fitzhugh, William W. Archaeology of Bronze Age Mongolia: A Deer Stone Diary. Hanover, NH: IPI Press; and Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, February 2023. ISBN 978-1-7366902-8-4.

Flaherty, William. Animals Illustrated: Ringed Seal. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, May 2022. ISBN: 978-1-77227-435-6 (Paperback, Inuktitut); 978-1-77227-370-0 (Hardback, English).

Hartman, Darrell. Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media. New York: Penguin Random House, June 2023. ISBN: 9780593297162 (Hardcover); 9780593297179 (Ebook); 9780593743225 (Audiobook).

Harper, Kenn. In Those Days: Inuit and Explorers. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, March 2022. ISBN: 978-1-77227-422-6 (Paperback); 978-1-77227-456-1 (EPUB).

*Heidt, Daniel and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. The Joint Arctic Weather Stations: Science and Sovereignty in the High Arctic, 1946-1972. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, April 2022. ISBN: 978-1-77385-257-7 (Paperback); 978-1-77385-276-8 (Hardback); 978-1-77385-259-1 (Institutional PDF); 978-1-77385-260-7 (ePub); 978-1-77385-258-4 (Open Access).

Hossain, Kamrul and J. Miguel Roncero, eds. Arctic Law in 1000 Words. Rovaniemi: Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, September 2023. ISBN: 978-952-337-383-9. Jurdica Lapponica 50. ISSN: 0783-4144.

Kafarowski, Joanna. Antarctic Pioneer: The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne. Toronto: Dundurn Press. May 2022. ISBN: 9781459749535 (Paperback); 9781459749542 (PDF); 9781459749559 (ePub).

Koonoo, Brian. Animals Illustrated: Arctic Fox. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, November 2023. ISBN: 978-1-77227-485-1.

Koonoo, Brian. Inuunira: My Story of Survival. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, June 2022. ISBN: 978-1-77227-506-3 (Paperback, Inuktitut); 978-1-77227-430-1 (Hardback, English); 978-1-77227-515-5 (EPUB, English).

*Kooyman, Gerald L. and Jim Mastro. Journeys with Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, November 2023. ISBN: 9780226824383 (Cloth); 9780226824390 (PDF); 9780226824390 (EPUB).

Leuprecht, Christian and Douglas Causey, eds. Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, December 2022. 978-1-77385-437-3 (Hardback); 978-1-77385-388-8 (Paperback); 978-1-77385-390-1 (Institutional PDF); 978-1-77385-391-8 (ePub); 978-1-77385-388-8 (Open Access). Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies Series. ISSN: 1716-2645 (Print); 1925-2919 (Online).

McGoogan, Ken. Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery. Madeira Park, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, October 2023. ISBN: 9781771623681 (Hardback); 9781771623698 (EPUB).

Mishler, Craig with Kenneth Drizhuu Frank. Crooked on the Stretcher Board/Ch’ats’ą’ Vizhit Teech’iriikii: Collected Essays on Gwich’in History, Language, and Folk Culture. Hanover, NH: IPI Press, November 2023. ISBN: 978-9-884732-2-0.

*Mitenbuler, Reid. Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age. New York: Mariner Books (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), February 2023. ISBN: 9780358468325 (Hardcover); 9780358469179 (E-book); 9780063352438 (Trade Paperback); 9780063294646 (Digital Audio, MP3). ISBN-10: 0358468329 (Hardcover); 0358469171 (E-book); 0063352435 (Trade Paperback); 0063294648 (Digital Audio, MP3).

Nielsen, Hanne Elliot Fønss. Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, December 2023. ISBN: 978-1-4962-2121-6 (Hardcover); 978-1-4962-3824-5 (eBook EPUB); 978-1-4962-3825-2 (eBook PDF).

Potter, Russell A. et al., eds. May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, September 2022. ISBN: 978-0-2280-1139-2 (Cloth); 978-0-2280-1336-5 (ePDF); 978-0-2280-1337-2 (ePUB).

*Pratt, Kenneth L. and Scott A. Heyes, eds. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North. Athabasca, AB: University of Athabasca Press, October, 2022. ISBN: 9781771993159 (Paperback); 9781771993166 (PDF/Open Access); 9781771993173 (ePUB).

*Rix, Robert W. The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, June 2023. ISBN: 9781009359474 (Hardback); 9781009359481 (eBook).

Scottie, Joan, Warren Bernauer, and Jack Hicks. I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, November 2022. ISBN: 9780887552717 (Hardback); 9780887552656 (Paperback); 9780887552670 (E-Book PDF); 9780887552694 (E-Book EPUB).

Stenport, Anna Westerstahl and Scott MacKenzie. New Arctic Cinemas: Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis. Oakland: University of California Press, March 2023. ISBN: 9780520390546 (Hardcover); 9780520390553 (Paperback); 9780520390560 (eBook).

Walker, Tom. The Wanderer: An Alaska Wolf’s Final Journey. Seattle: Mountaineers Books, May 2023. ISBN 978-1-68051-613-5.

Wamsley, Douglas, W. Big Wolf: The Adventurous Life of Lieutenant Frederick G. Schwatka. Staunton, VA: American History Press, December 2022. ISBN-13: 9781939995391 (Hardcover); 9781939995421 (Paperback).

Wrigley, Charlotte. Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press on April 4, 2023. ISBN: 978­1­5179­1181­2 (Cloth); 978­1-5179­1182­9 (Paperback).