The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck: An Inuk Hero in Rupert's Land, 1800-1834 by Renee Fossett (University of Regina Press) has won the 2024 William Mills Prize for Non-fiction Polar Books, awarded every two years by the Polar Libraries Colloquy and honoring "the best Arctic and Antarctic non-fiction books." Judges said that Fossett "skillfully and comprehensively introduced an Inuk interpreter/hunter as an important actor on a vast stage where 'the struggle for possession of northwestern North America by Britain, Russia and the United States' was played out."
Two other books received honorable mentions:
Expedition Relics from High Arctic Greenland: Eight Decades of Exploration History Told Through 102 Objects by Peter R. Dawes (Museum Tusculanum Press), which "lays out the panorama of European and American exploration history in Greenland from 1853-1934."
Erebus the Ice Dragon: A Portrait of an Antarctic Volcano by Colin Monteath (Massey University Press) which "gathers, in a beautifully produced book, everything one would want to know about Mount Erebus, Antarctica's only active volcano."