by Adam Gopnik
SPECIFIC POLAR EXPEDITIONS
Amundsen, Roald. The Amundsen Photographs. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987.
Bomann-Larsen, Tor. Roald Amundsen: En biografi. Oslo: Cappelen, 2003.
Cox, Lynne. South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Exploration, and the Quest for Discovery. New York, NY: Knopf, 2011.
Hartley, Catharine. To the Poles Without a Beard: The Polar Adventures of a World Record–Breaking Woman. Oxford: Isis, 2004.
Heimermann, Benoît, and Gérard Janichon. Charcot: Le gentleman des pôles. Rennes: Éditions Ouest-France, 1991.
Janichon, Gérard, and Christian de Marliave. L’aventure polaire française: Des baleiniers aux expeditions de Paul-Émile Victor. Paris: Arthaud, 1997.
Kløver, Geir O. Cold Recall: Reflections of a Polar Explorer. Oslo: Fram Museum, 2009.
Kubnick, Henri. Charcot et les explorations polaires. Tours, France: Mame, 1938.
Mabire, Jean. Roald Amundsen: Le plus grand des explorateurs polaires. Grenoble, France: Glénat, 1998.
Mills, Leif. Men of Ice: The Lives of Alistair Forbes Mackay (1878–1914) and Cecil Henry Meares (1877–1937). Whitby, UK: Caedmon, 2008.
Orphelin, Catherine. Paul-Émile Victor: Mémoires et rêves d’un humaniste. Marseille, France: AGEP, 1992.
Owen, Russell. The Conquest of the North and South Poles: Adventures of the Peary and Byrd Expeditions. New York: Random House, 1952.
Partridge, Bellamy. Amundsen: The Splendid Norseman. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1922.
Pool, Beekman H. Polar Extremes: The World of Lincoln. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2002.
Ross, M. J. Polar Pioneers: John Ross and James Clark Ross. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994.
Rouillon, Gaston. Jean-Baptiste Charcot: Sa vie, son oeuvre, leurs prolongements 50 ans après. Talloires, France: G. Rouillon, 1986.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry. South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition. New York: Konecky, 1999.
Smith, Michael. Captain Crozier: Last Man Standing? Cork, Ireland: Collins Press, 2006.
Vaeth, J. Gordon. To the Ends of the Earth: The Explorations of Roald Amundsen. New York: Harper and Row, 1962.
Victor, Paul-Émile. Dialogues à une voix. Paris: Laffont, 1995.
. L’iglou. Paris: Payot et Rivages, 1995.
OTHER
Bradfield, Elizabeth. Approaching Ice: Poems. New York: Persea Books, 2010.
Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. Champaign, IL: Book Jungle, 2008.
Mailer, Norman. Of a Fire on the Moon. Boston: Little Brown, 1970.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. New York: Viking, 1998.
THREE: RECUPERATIVE WINTER
COMMERCIAL CHRISTMAS
Abelson, Elaine S. When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Bowlby, Rachel. Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Devorkin, Joseph. Great Merchants of Early New York: “The Ladies’ Mile.” New York: Society for the Architecture of the City, 1987.
Dickens, Charles. The Annotated Christmas Carol. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
. Christmas Books and Stories. New York: P. Collier and Sons, 1870.
Eckstein, Bob. The History of the Snowman. New York, NY: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2007.
Hamlin, David D. Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.
Harris, Leon A. Merchant Princes: An Intimate History of Jewish Families Who Built Great Department Stores. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Hendrickson, Robert. The Grand Emporiums: The Illustrated History of America’s Great Department Stores. New York: Stein and Day, 1979.
Hower, Ralph M. The History of Macy’s of New York, 1858–1919: Chapters in the Evolution of the Department Store. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1943.
Moss, Mark Howard. Shopping as an Entertainment Experience. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.
Phenix, Patricia. Eatonians: The Story of the Family Behind the Family. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2002.
Samuelson, Sue. Christmas: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1982.
Whitaker, Jan. Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
RELIGION, POETRY, AND CUSTOMS
Auden, W. H. For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio. London: Faber and Faber, 1944.
Abrahams, Roger D. Christmas and Carnival on Saint Vincent. California Folklore Society, 1973.
Chesterton, G. K. Avowals and Denials: A Book of Essays. LaVergne, TN: Barton Press, 2010.
. The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944.
Coffin, Tristram Potter. The Book of Christmas Folklore. New York: Seabury Press, 1973.
Comfort, David. Just Say Noel!: A History of Christmas from the Nativity to the Nineties. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Crashaw, Richard. Steps to the Temple. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1904.
Dawson, W. F. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations. London: E. Stock, 1902.
Farjeon, B. L. Christmas Angel. London: Ward and Downey, 1885.
. Shadows on the Snow: A Christmas Story. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1877.
Foley, Daniel J. The Christmas Tree: An Evergreen Garland Filled with History, Folklore, Symbolism, Traditions, Legends and Stories. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1960.
Golby, J. M. The Making of the Modern Christmas. Stroud, UK: Sutton, 2000.
Hervey, Thomas Kibble. The Book of Christmas: Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas Season. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2006.
Jekels, Ludwig. Selected Papers. New York: International Universities Press, 1953.
Johnson, Sheila K. “The Christmas Card Syndrome.” New York Times Magazine, December 5, 1971, 38–29.
Jones, Ernest. Essays on Applied Psychoanalysis. London: International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1923.
Kelleher, Daniel Lawrence, ed. An Anthology of Christmas Prose and Verse. London: Cresset Press, 1928.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. “Le Père Noël supplicié.” Les Temps Modernes, 7 (1952), 1572–90.
Mabie, Hamilton W. The Book of Christmas. New York: Macmillan, 1909.
Miles, Clement A. Christmas Customs and Traditions: Their History and Significance. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.
Nissenbaum, Stephen. The Battle for Christmas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
O’Neil, Sunny. The Gift of Christmas Past: A Return to Victorian Traditions. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1981.
Paru, Marden D. “Tannenbaum and the Jewish Problem.” Jewish Social Studies 35, no. 3/4 (1973): 283–89.
Reid, Robert Ewen. Infantile Crises Associated with Christmas: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation. (Ph.D. Diss.) Claremont, California: School of Theology, 1968.
Samuelson, Sue. Christmas: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1982.
Sansom, William. Christmas. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.
Snyder, Phillip V. December 25th: The Joys of Christmas Past. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985.
Spicer, Dorothy Gladys. 46 days of Christmas: A Cycle of Old World Songs, Legends and Customs. New York: Coward-McCann, 1960.
Steiner, Rudolf. The Festivals and Their Meaning. Vol. 1, Christmas. London: Rudolf Steiner, 1955.
Stokker, Kathleen. Keeping Chr
istmas: Yuletide Traditions in Norway and the New Land. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000.
Trollope, Anthony. Anthony Trollope: The Complete Shorter Fiction, edited by Julian Thompson. New York: Caroll and Graf, 1992.
Wallis, Wilson D. Culture and Progress. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1930.
Weiser, Franz Xavier. Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs: The Year of the Lord in Liturgy and Folklore. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958.
CHRISTMAS IN THE UNITED STATES
Barnett, James Harwood. The American Christmas: A Study in National Culture. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
Benney, Mark, Rolf Meyersohn, David Riesman, and Robert Weiss. Christmas in an Apartment Hotel. Chicago: American Journal of Sociology and University of Chicago Press, 1959.
Bye, Roger. How Christmas Came to Hawaii. Honolulu: Dilligham, 1967.
Cure, Karen. An Old-Fashioned Christmas: American Holiday Traditions. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1984.
Lankford, Mary D. Christmas USA. New York: Collins, 2006.
Marling, Karal Ann. Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America’s Greatest Holiday. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Rawlings, Kevin. We Were Marching on Christmas Day: A History and Chronicle of Christmas During the Civil War. Baltimore, MD: Toomey Press, 1995.
Restad, Penne L. Christmas in America: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Richards, Katharine Lambert. How Christmas Came to the Sunday-Schools: The Observance of Christmas in the Protestant Church Schools of the United States, an Historical Study. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1934.
SANTA CLAUS
de Groot, Adrianus Dingeman. Saint Nicholas: A Psychoanalytic Study of His History and Myth. New York: Basic Books, 1965.
Nast, Thomas. Thomas Nast: Cartoons and Illustrations. New York: Dover, 1974.
Paine, Albert. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures. New York: Chelsea House, 1980.
Siefker, Phyllis. Santa Claus, Last of the Wild Men: The Origins and Evolution of Saint Nicholas, Spanning 50,000 years. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.
Standiford, Les. The Man Who Invented Christmas. New York: Crown, 2008.
FOUR: RECREATIONAL WINTER
WINTER SPORTS (GENERAL)
Bass, Howard. Winter Sports. South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1968.
Berlioz, Hector. The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz. New York: Knopf, 2002.
Cereghini, Mario. 5000 years of Winter Sports. Milan: Edizioni del Milione, 1955.
Chadwick, Henry. Handbook of Winter Sports. New York: Beadle and Adams, 1879.
Cleaver, Reginald. A Winter-Sport Book. London: A. and C. Black, 1911.
Devlin, Iseult. Winter Sports. Camden, ME: Ragged Mountain Press, 2001.
Dier, J. C., ed. A Book of Winter Sports: An Attempt to Catch the Spirit of the Keen Joys of the Winter Season. New York: Macmillan, 1912.
Flower, Raymond. The Story of Skiing and Other Winter Sports. London: Angus and Robertson, 1976.
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich. Dead Souls. New York: Everyman’s Library, 2004.
James, C. L. R. Beyond a Boundary. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.
Jessup, Elon Huntington. Snow and Ice Sports: A Winter Manual. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1923.
Liebers, Arthur. The Complete Book of Winter Sports. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1971.
Loiseau, Gilbert G. Bobsleigh: Technique, entraînment, compétition. Paris: Éditions Amphora, 1968.
Lytton, Neville. Winter Sports. London: Seeley, Service, 1930.
Macy, Sue. Freeze Frame: A Photographic History of the Winter Olympics. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006.
McWhirter, Norris, ed. Guinness Book of Olympic Records. New York: Bantam Books, 1979.
Putnam, Harold, ed. The Dartmouth Book of Winter Sports. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1939.
Syers, E., ed. The Book of Winter Sports. London: E. Arnold, 1908.
White, William Dustin. The Book of Winter Sports. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925.
Wordsworth, William. The Prelude. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
EUROPE
Achard, Michel. Histoire du ski et des sports d’hiver dans le massif du Pilat (Loire-Forez) de 1892 à nos jours. Le Bassat, France: M. Achard, 1989.
Benson, E. F. Winter Sports in Switzerland. London: G. Allen, 1913.
Colburn, Henry. Colburn’s Calendar of Amusements in Town and Country for 1840: Comprising London Seasons and Sights; Balls, Masquerades, Theatres; Winter, Summer, and Harvest Sports. London: H. Colburn, 1840.
Dupays, Paul. L’hiver: Ses joies, ses sports, ses caprices. Paris: Argo, 1934.
Lang, Andrew. Lost Leaders. New York: Longmans, Green, 1889.
Massot, Claude. Guide des sports d’hiver en France. Paris: Stock, 1970.
McDermott, F. How to Be Happy in Switzerland (Winter Sports). London: Arrowsmith, 1928.
Meijerman, A. M. Hollandso winters. Hilversum, Netherlands: W. de Haan, 1967.
Perrin, Henri. Les stations de sports d’hiver: Création et gestion, rôle des collectivités locales. Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1971.
Root, Waverley. Winter Sports in Europe: A Comprehensive Guide. New York: Grove Press, 1956.
. Winter Sports in France: A Comprehensive Guide. New York: Grove Press, 1956.
CANADA
Beers, W. George. Over the Snow: or, The Montreal Carnival. Montreal: W. Drysdale and J. Robinson, 1883.
Bryden, Wendy. Canada at the Olympic Winter Games: The Official Sports History and Record Book. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1987.
Corbet, Elise A., and Anthony W. Rasporich, eds. Winter Sports in the West. Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta, 1990.
Ellis, David W. H. Canada at the Olympics, 1988. St. Albert, AB: Ellis Sports Equipment and Consulting, 1989.
Le Moine, J. M. Historical and Sporting Notes on Quebec and Its Environs. Quebec: L. J. Demers & Frère, 1889.
Quebec Winter Carnival: January 29th to February 3rd, 1894. Montreal: Sabiston, 1894.
UNITED STATES
Cruikshank, James A. Spalding’s Winter Sports. New York: American Sports, 1917.
Harris, Fred Henry. Dartmouth Out o’ Doors: A Book Descriptive of the Outdoor Life in and about Hanover, N.H. Boston: George E. Crosby, 1913.
James, George Wharton. Winter Sports at Huntington Lake Lodge in the High Sierras: The Story of the First Annual Ice and Snow Carnival of the Commercial Club of Fresno, California. Pasadena, CA: Radiant Life Press, 1916.
Larson, Paul Clifford. Icy Pleasures: Minnesota Celebrates Winter. Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press, 1998.
Lewin, Josh. Getting in the Game: Inside Baseball’s Winter Meetings. Washington, DC: Brasseys, 2004.
Ortloff, George Christian. Lake Placid, the Olympic Years, 1932–1980: A Portrait of America’s Premier Winter Resort. Lake Placid, NY: Macromedia, 1976.
Spalding Catalogue of Fall and Winter Sports. New York: A. G. Spalding and Brothers, 1906.
HOCKEY AND SKATING
Dowbiggin, Bruce. Of Ice and Men: Steve Yzerman, Chris Chelios, Glen Sather, Dominik Hasek, The Craft of Hockey. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1998.
Duhatschek, Eric. One Hundred Years of Hockey: The Chronicle of a Century on Ice. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 1999.
Hunter, Doug. War Games: Conn Smythe and Hockey’s Fighting Men. Toronto: Viking, 1996.
Klein, Jeff Z. and Karl-Eric Reif. Hockey Compendium. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986.
McFarlane, Brian. Proud Past, Bright Future: One Hundred Years of Canadian Women’s Hockey. Toronto: Stoddart, 1994.
Podnieks, Andrew. Canada’s Olympic Hockey Teams: The Complete History, 1920–1998. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1997.
Tarasov, A
natoli Vladimirovich. Road to Olympus. Toronto: Griffin House, 1969.
Taylor, Duff. Skating. London: Seeley, Service, 1937.
Vaughan, Garth. The Puck Starts Here: The Origin of Canada’s Great Winter Game, Ice Hockey. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 1996.
Vigneault, Michel. La naissance d’un sport organisé au Canada: Le hockey à Montréal, 1875–1917. (Ph.D. Diss.) L’Université Laval, 2001.
Whitehead, Eric. The Patricks: Hockey’s Royal Family. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1980.
FIVE: REMEMBERING WINTER
Bishop, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems 1927–1979. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.
Frye, Northrop. Northrop Frye on Religion. (Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Vol. IV) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Golany, Gideon. Geo-Space Urban Design. New York: John Wiley, 1996.
Jarrell, Randall. The Complete Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sunburst Books, 1969.
Pressman, Norman. Shaping Cities for Winter: Climatic Comfort and Sustainable Desire. Prince George, BC: Winter Cities Association, 2004.
Struzik, Ed. The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting North. Mississauga, ON: J. Wiley & Sons Canada, 2009.
Turvey, G. Calum, Alfons Weersink, and Szu-Hsuan Celia Chiang. Pricing Weather Insurance with a Random Strike Price: The Ontario Ice-Wine Harvest. Blackwell Publishing: Journal of Agriculture Economics, 2005.
“Underground City, Montreal.” A View on Cities. July 5, 2011. http://www.aviewoncities.com/montreal/reso.htm
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Monastery Graveyard in the Snow (Cloister Cemetery in the Snow), Caspar David Friedrich, 1819
© bpk, Berlin/Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin/Art Resource, NY
The Chasseur in the Forest, Caspar David Friedrich, 1812
© Foto Marburg/Art Resource, NY
The Sea of Ice, Caspar David Friedrich, 1824
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