The Land Beyond : A Memoir /

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Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ives, Jack D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ives, Jack D.
Ives, Jack D. > Travel > Quebec (Province) > Nord-du-Quebec.
Ives, Jack D. > Travel > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador.
McGill Sub-arctic Research Laboratory.
McGill Sub-arctic Research Laboratory > History.
Wilderness areas.
Travel.
Natural history.
Graduate students.
Earth sciences > Research.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > General.
Sciences naturelles > Quebec (Province) > Nord-du-Quebec.
Sciences naturelles > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Labrador.
Reserves de la vie sauvage > Quebec (Province) > Nord-du-Quebec > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Reserves de la vie sauvage > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Labrador > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sciences de la terre > Recherche > Quebec (Province) > Nord-du-Quebec > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sciences de la terre > Recherche > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Labrador > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Natural history > Quebec (Province) > Nord-du-Quebec.
Natural history > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador.
Wilderness areas > Quebec (Province) > Nord-du-Quebec > History > 20th century.
Wilderness areas > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador > History > 20th century.
Graduate students > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador > Biography.
Earth sciences > Research > Quebec (Province) > Nord-du-Quebec > History > 20th century.
Earth sciences > Research > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador > History > 20th century.
Quebec > Nord-du-Quebec.
Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearted, winning memoir and a call to action on the issues of environmental awareness and conservation that are inextricably intertwined with life in the north. Mixing personal impressions of key figures of the postwar scientific boom with the intellectual drama of field research, The Land Beyond is a mem.
Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations (some color), map
ISBN:9781602231054

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