"The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens"--Provided by publisher.
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"The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens"--Provided by publisher.
"The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens"--Provided by publisher.
When the day ended with time for questions, I had some turning in my head ... About 'nature, ' mostly, which we were exhorted to reconnect with. What was it, exactly, and where did it reside? With her poet's eye and naturalist's affinity for wild places, Kathleen Jamie reports f…
With a poet's eye and naturalist's affinity for wild places, Jamie reports from the field in this collection of essays. Jamie roams her native Scottish "byways and hills" and sails north to encounter whalebones and icebergs. She dissects whatever her gaze falls upon: from vistas…
Arctic discourses
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"Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses invo…
Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses invol…
The Arctic and the accounts of its exploration and heroes fascinated people in Victorian Britain. But how was this distant region represented to them? Which stories had lasting appeal and which were soon forgotten? How were the indigenous people represented, and what difficultie…
The Arctic in the British imagination, 1818-1914
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The Arctic in the British imagination, 1818-1914
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The Arctic in the British imagination, 1818-1914
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"As Robert David tells us in this book, Britain's imagined Arctic was created through a staggering variety of representations: from travel narratives to works of art and panoramas, from museum displays, tableaux vivants, and international exhibitions, to engravings in the illust…
"To the Arctic by Canoe records the experiences of a remarkable young adventurer, Robert Hood, during the first overland Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin. Franklin's expedition was the first to travel the northern coast of North America's Arctic; in two birch-bark cano…