Free on Archive.org, In northern mists: Arctic exploration in early times (1911) Vol. 1, and Vol 2. It’s a deep history of the discovery of the high northern lands, with plenty of well-scanned hand-drawn maps. “Early” here means from the Greeks to the discovery of North America.

A new one-sheet map will help readers of such books orient themselves, although it doesn’t cover the integral area that lies a little further east — where Finnish culture leaps the dividing channel of water and shades down into the lake-country of what is now Lithuania.