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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert McGhee |
ISBN: | 9780226500898 0226500896 |
OCLC Number: | 970965040 |
Description: | 296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | An Arctic vision -- After the Ice Age -- A distant paradise : the Arctic in ancient thought -- A hunter's world -- In Arctic Siberia -- Vikings and Arctic farmers : the Norse Atlantic saga -- Inuit -- Ice and death on the northeast passage -- Martin Frobisher's gold mines -- The rape of Spitsbergen -- Bay of tragedy -- Frozen glory -- The peoples' land -- An Arctic journey. |
Responsibility: | Robert McGhee. |
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"In prose infused by his position as curator of Arctic archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization - which has taken him to sites in several countries - McGhee demolishes some persistent illusions about the white North.... Evocative." - Times Literary Supplement "[A] compelling account.... [McGhee] believes that the Arctic is not so much a region as a dream - what he sees as a dream of a unique, attractive world.... An archaeologist who has spent thirty years there, the author lets his love for the region shine through on every page." - Booklist "McGhee displays the powerful attractions of the top of the world.... [His] prose... sparkles like frost in the midnight sun." - Financial Times "McGhee has written a sensitive, fascinating, and extremely important book." - Canadian Geographic "What McGhee has accomplished in this enthralling book is both a canvas of our imaginary Arctic... and a history and anthropology of the real thing.... We meet heroism, stupidity, greed, smallpox, and Christianity, not to mention a dead narwhal mistaken for a unicorn." - Harper's" Read more...

