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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sturm, Matthew
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Travel.
Snowmobiling.
Manners and customs.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Winter Sports.
Motoneige (Sport) > Arctique.
Snowmobiling > Arctic regions.
Arctic Regions.
Arctique > Moeurs et coutumes.
Arctique > Histoire.
Arctique > Descriptions et voyages.
Arctic regions > Social life and customs.
Arctic regions > History.
Arctic regions > Description and travel.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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