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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sturm, Matthew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Snowmobiling--Arctic regions.

Snowmobiling.

Arctic regions--Description and travel.

Arctic regions.

Arctic regions--History.

Arctic regions--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 stories and weaves them around his own story of a 2,500-mile snowmobile expedition across arctic Alaska and Canada. During that trip, Sturm and six companions followed a circuitous route that brought them to many of the most historic spots in the North. They stood in the footsteps of their predec.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60223-164-8

OCLC:

893740800