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Author | : Lyle Dick |
Publisher | : University of Calgary Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1552380505 |
Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
Author | : Joel Asaph Allen |
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Muskox |
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Author | : Peter C. Lent |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780806131702 |
"Muskoxen, shaggy denizens of the Far North, are creatures long enveloped in myth. In this first major work on the muskox, Peter C. Lent presents a comprehensive account of how its fortunes have been intertwined with our own since the glaciations of the Pleistocene era.
Author | : Joel Asaph Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Muskox |
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Author | : Elisabeth Hone |
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Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Mammal populations |
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Author | : David Welky |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393254429 |
A Booklist Best Literary Travel Book (2017) and Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book (2016) “A penetrating study of human character in a challenging environment. . . . [David Welky’s] seamless narrative, chilling at times and always thought-provoking, transports the reader to a time when the Arctic was virtually as harsh and inaccessible a place as the Moon or Mars.” —Natural History From a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, famed Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary spots a line of mysterious peaks dotting the horizon. In 1906, he names that distant, uncharted territory “Crocker Land.” Years later, two of Peary’s disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, take the brave steps Peary never did: with a team of amateur adventurers and intrepid native guides, they endeavor to reach this unknown land and fill in the last blank space on the globe. What follows is hardship and mishap the likes of which none of the explorers could possibly have imagined. From howling blizzards and desperate food shortages to crime and tragedy, the explorers experience a remarkable journey of endurance, courage, and hope. Set in one of the world’s most inhospitable places, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is an Arctic tale unlike any other.
Author | : Hugh Raffles |
Publisher | : Verse Chorus Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2022-04-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1891241745 |
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
Author | : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
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Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Author | : Pamela R. Stern |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0810879123 |
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Inuit provides a history of the indigenous peoples of North Alaska, arctic Canada including Labrador, and Greenland. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Inuits.
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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