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Finding the Arctic : history and culture along a 2,500-mile snowmobile journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay / Matthew Sturm.
Van Pelt Library GV856.7.A73 S78 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sturm, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Snowmobiling--Arctic regions.
- Snowmobiling.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Arctic regions--Description and travel.
- Arctic regions.
- Arctic Regions.
- Arctic regions--History.
- Arctic regions--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- A leader in the arctic climate change research community, Sturm has led over 25 expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic. Here he collects a number of stories about arctic exploration, culture, commerce, and adventure within an account of a 2007 trip he led. Among his perspectives are ballad of the arctic science bandits, Quarantine Island, snow and ice roads, the Shield and the Cordilleran, the complex calculus of barren lands diamond mining, and strange woolly attractors. Old and new photographs, and detailed maps are provided. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781602231634
- 160223163X
- 9781602231641
- 1602231648
- OCLC:
- 747947278
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