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Daylight in the swamp
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ISBN: 128196249X 9786611962494 1554881412 9781554881413 9781459714885 1459714881 1550022512 9781550022513 Year: 1997 Publisher: Toronto Buffalo, NY Dundurn Press

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Daylight in the Swamp is the bush memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney, a noted Canadian artist and recorder of aboriginal rock art.

Ships of wood and men of iron
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ISBN: 9786611967819 1554882923 1281967815 1280578122 9786613607874 1770704477 9781554882922 9781897045060 1897045069 1897045069 Year: 2005 Publisher: Toronto Natural Heritage Books

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A history of explorations of the Arctic in Canada, beginning with Otto Sverdrups 18981902 Norwegian expedition.


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Nordicité canadienne
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ISBN: 0775800341 9780775800340 Year: 1975 Volume: 18 Publisher: Montréal Hurtubise

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A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage : While in Search of the Expedition under Sir John Franklin
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ISBN: 1139060244 1108033350 Year: 1857 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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The H.M.S. Investigator spent the years 1850-4 in the Western Arctic engaged in a search for the lost expedition of the explorer Sir John Franklin. In this 1857 publication Alexander Armstrong (1818-99), surgeon and naturalist to the ship, gives a first-hand account of life on board during the voyage, as testimony to the 'heroism, devotion, and endurance' of his shipmates. He describes the harsh conditions that the crew had to endure, and argues convincingly that no travel 'more thoroughly tests man's powers of endurance, both morally and physically' than travelling in the Arctic. He also notes that lemon juice proved the most effective remedy against scurvy. Armstrong's natural history research was cut short when the ship was abandoned and his collections left behind, but he includes an appendix listing the animals and birds observed on the voyage, and the Arctic plants collected by a friend and colleague.

Nastawgan
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ISBN: 1281961809 9786611961800 1554882389 9781554882380 0969078331 9780969078333 096907834X 9780969078340 Year: 1985 Publisher: Toronto, Canada Betelgeuse Books

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A rich history of Canadian wilderness travel, an utterly compelling collection, said The Globe and Mail.


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Travelling passions : the hidden life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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ISBN: 1283091364 9786613091369 0887553907 0887551793 9780887551796 9780887553905 9781283091367 6613091367 Year: 2005 Publisher: Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press,

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson has long been known for his groundbreaking work as an anthropologist and expert on Arctic peoples. His three expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in the early 1900s, as well as his expertise in northern anthropology, helped create his public image as an heroic, Hemingway-esque figure in the annals of twentieth-century exploration. But the emotional and private life of Stefansson the man have remained hidden, until now. New evidence of this other life has recently been discovered: a collection of love letters between Stefansson and his fiance Orpha Cecil Smith were found in a New Hampshire flea market; Stefansson's field diaries have revealed elegant essays and insightful commentary on Inupiat society; baptismal records have revealed that Stefansson had a son, Alex, with his informant and guide, Fanny Pannigabluk; and through Web searches and a private detective, Palsson found and conducted interviews with the descendents of both Cecil Smith and Alex Stefansson. Travelling Passions sheds new light on Stefanssonís life and work, focussing on the tension between his private life and the theories that brought his name to the halls of fame. Palsson draws a clear, vivid, and in many ways unexpected picture of the mythical figure of Stefansson.

Hummocks
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ISBN: 0773560319 9780773560314 0773532005 9780773532005 9780773532007 Year: 2007 Publisher: Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press

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"At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks," writes Jean Malaurie.


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Journal of northern studies.
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ISSN: 20044658 Year: 2007 Publisher: Umeå [Sweden] : Umeå University : Royal Skyttean Society

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Rethinking the Great White North
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ISBN: 0774820136 1299588018 0774820152 9780774820158 9780774820134 9780774820141 0774820144 9780774820165 0774820160 Year: 2011 Publisher: Vancouver UBC Press

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