Resumen de Notable books marking the international polar year.

• The article lists two books that are suggested by the author in connection to the beginning of the International Polar Year, including "Vanishing World: The Endangered Arctic," by Fredrik Granath and Mireille de la Lez, and "The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic," edited by Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford.