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The Fourth World-V630

Sam Hall. Vintage Books USA, $8.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-394-75630-1

From the first European contact to the present, the Arctic has been exploited. ``British journalist Hall, who has traveled throughout the Arctic for many years, here writes a powerful and moving story of the Far North, its people and an ominous future,'' said PW of this ``important and timely book.'' (August)