Cold comfort : my love affair with the Arctic /

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In 1936 the least-known area of Canada was the west coast of Baffin Island, part of which was still unexplored. Graham Rowley went to the Arctic as the archaeologist of a small British expedition to map and investigate this uncharted area. Cold Comfort is a personal account of his experiences in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rowley, Graham
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
Colección:McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 13.
Temas:
Rowley, Graham > Journeys > Northwest Territories > Baffin Island.
Rowley, Graham > Voyages > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Baffin, Île de.
Rowley, Graham
Rowley, Graham > Voyages.
TRAVEL > Canada > Territories & Nunavut (NT, NU, YT)
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Voyages and travels
Discoveries in geography > British
Travel
Expedities.
Baffin Island (Nunavut) > Discovery and exploration > British.
Baffin Island (Nunavut) > Description and travel.
Baffin, Île de (T.N.-O.) > Découverte et exploration britanniques.
Baffin, Île de (T.N.-O.) > Descriptions et voyages.
Baffin, Île de (Nunavut) > Descriptions et voyages.
Nunavut > Baffin Island
Canada > Baffin, Terre de > Découverte et exploration britanniques.
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  • Preparing for an expedition
  • The eastern Canadian Arctic in 1935
  • Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Churchill
  • Churchill to Bay of Gods mercy
  • Walrus island
  • Ship-time at Coral Harbour
  • Coats Island and Duke or York Bay
  • A long walk to Epulse Bay
  • Preparing for winter travel
  • Repulse to Igloolik
  • hard start
  • Repulse to Igloolik
  • easy finish
  • Iglolik to Piling
  • Return from Piling
  • Across Baffin Island to Pond Inlet
  • Pond Inlet
  • Pond Inlet overland to Arctic Bay
  • Spring at Arctic Bay
  • Excavating in Admiralty Inlet
  • South on the Nascopie
  • Return to Repulse Bay
  • Waiting at Repulse Bay
  • Christmas in Lyon Inlet
  • Lyon Inlet to Igloolik
  • Jens Munk Island
  • Through the Baffin Island Mountains
  • Anaularealing to Pond Intlet
  • A new island
  • Excavating at Abverdjar
  • South to the war.

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