Finding the Arctic : history and culture along a 2,500-mile snowmobile journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay /

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The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In Finding the Arctic, the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects some of the most memorable and moving of these stor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sturm, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Snowmobiling > Arctic regions.
Motoneige (Sport) > Arctique.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Winter Sports.
Manners and customs
Snowmobiling
Travel
Arctic regions > Description and travel.
Arctic regions > History.
Arctic regions > Social life and customs.
Arctique > Descriptions et voyages.
Arctique > Histoire.
Arctique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Arctic Regions
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tracks North
  • Ballad of the arctic science bandits
  • Changes north
  • Rosebud realities
  • The quest's older cousin; the Iditarod
  • Porcupine hospitality
  • Quarantine Island
  • Poignant passing: the Mad Trapper of Rat River
  • Who was the Mad Trapper of Rat River?
  • Big Mac
  • Snow and ice roads
  • Finding the Douglas Cabin
  • Black Lake ice
  • The shield and the cordilleran
  • Fort Confidence
  • The Northern Cross
  • Kugluktuk
  • Inuksuk
  • Sea ice going, going, gone
  • The starvation trail
  • The diamond confluence
  • The oldest rocks in the world
  • The complex calculus of Barrenlands Diamond Mining
  • The Braided Strands: first interloper (Hearne)
  • Whiteout on Aylmer Lake
  • Strange wooly attractors
  • The last refugee (Hornby).

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