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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.
Artists --- Dewdney, Selwyn H. --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions
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A history of explorations of the Arctic in Canada, beginning with Otto Sverdrups 18981902 Norwegian expedition.
Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, --- Fram (Ship) --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions --- Discovery and exploration --- Norwegian.
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Canada, Northern --- Canada (Nord) --- Description and travel --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions --- Canada, Northern. --- Canada, Northern - Description and travel
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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.
Armstrong, Alexander, --- Travel --- Investigator (Ship) --- Northwest Passage --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic regions --- Discovery and exploration. --- Armstrong, Alex. --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada
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Scandinavia --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic regions --- Norden --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Fennoscandia --- Nordic countries --- Arctic --- Arctic Ocean Region --- Arctic, The --- Far North --- The Arctic --- Polar regions --- forskning. --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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A rich history of Canadian wilderness travel, an utterly compelling collection, said The Globe and Mail.
Canoes and canoeing --- Birch-bark canoes --- Canoe trips --- Canoeing --- Aquatic sports --- Boats and boating --- History --- Addresses, essays, lectures. --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions --- Description and travel
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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.
Explorers --- Anthropologists --- Scientists --- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, --- Stef, --- Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, --- Stephenson, William, --- Stephenson, Vilhjalmur, --- Stephenson, Villi, --- Stefansson, Villi, --- Relations with women. --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions --- Discovery and exploration.
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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.
Anthropologists --- Ethnology --- Inuit. --- Innuit --- Inupik --- Eskimos --- Malaurie, Jean --- Travel --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions --- Discovery and exploration --- French. --- Description and travel. --- Arctic peoples --- Inuit --- Social conditions.
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Scandinavia --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic regions --- Norden --- Arctic Regions. --- Northern Canada. --- Scandinavia. --- forskning. --- Fennoscandia --- Nordic countries --- Canada --- Canadian --- Arctic Regions --- Arctic --- Arctic Ocean Region --- Far North --- The Arctic --- Polar regions --- Arctic, The --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada
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Whites --- Indigenous peoples --- Racism --- Race identity --- Social conditions. --- Canada, Northern --- Canada --- Historical geography. --- Race relations. --- Ethnology --- White persons --- Caucasian race --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions --- White people
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