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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452447003321

Autore

Sturm Matthew

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, 2012

ISBN

1-60223-164-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

796.94097

Soggetti

Snowmobiling - Arctic regions

Electronic books.

Arctic regions Description and travel

Arctic regions History

Arctic regions Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 01. Tracks North; Ballad of the Arctic Science Bandits; Changes North; 02. Rosebud Realities; Quest's Older Cousin-The Iditarod; 03. Porcupine Hospitality; Quarantine Island; 04. Poignant Passing:The Mad Trapper of Rat River; Who Was the Mad Trapper of Rat River?; 05. Big Mac; Snow and Ice Roads; 06. Finding the Douglas Cabin; Black Lake Ice; The Shield and the Cordilleran; Fort Confidence; 07. The Northern Cross; 08. Kugluktuk; Inuksuk; Sea Ice Going, Going, Gone; 09. The Starvation Trail; 10. The Diamond Confluence

The Complex Calculus of Barrenlands Diamond MiningThe Oldest Rocks in the World; 11. Braided Strands: The First Interloper; Whiteout on Aylmer Lake; Whiteout on Aylmer Lake; 12. Braided Strands: The Last Refugee; Acknowledgments; Another Arctic Story; Recommended Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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