The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world / Robert McGhee.
The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world / Robert McGhee.
The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world / Robert McGhee.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N909.0913/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
296 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Prelude : an Arctic vision -- 1. After the Ice Age -- 2. A distant paradise : the Arctic in ancient thought -- 3. A hunter's world -- 4. In Arctic Siberia -- 5. Vikings and Arctic farmers : the Norse Atlantic saga -- 6. Inuit -- 7. Ice and death on the Northeast Passage -- 8. Martin Frobisher's gold...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2005.
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"Sea ice and the midnight sun, flaming aurora and endless winter night - the arctic of traveler's tales and romantic novels is the unattainable dream of a vast and desolate world - the last imaginary place on Earth.".
McGhee takes us to a thousand-year-old Tuniit campsite perfectly preserved in the Arctic cold, follows the entrepreneurial Inuit as they cross the Arctic in search of metal, and reveals the dangers that native people face today from industrial pollution and global warming."--BOOK JACKET....
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The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world / Robert McGhee.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N909.0913/1
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74VKq2pqXvKb
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ISBN
0195183681 (alk. paper)
9780195183689 (alk. paper)
DDC
909.0913
MMS ID
991020123049702626
