03154nam 2200601Ia 450 991080786440332120240405094844.01-60223-164-8(CKB)2550000000106928(EBL)1820952(SSID)ssj0000689138(PQKBManifestationID)11415507(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000689138(PQKBWorkID)10618107(PQKB)10426506(MiAaPQ)EBC1820952(Au-PeEL)EBL1820952(CaPaEBR)ebr10572677(OCoLC)893740800(OCoLC)798902942(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110925(EXLCZ)99255000000010692820110816d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFinding the Arctic[electronic resource] history and culture along a 2,500-mile snowmobile journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay /Matthew Sturm1st ed.Fairbanks University of Alaska Press20121 online resource (274 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60223-163-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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).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.SnowmobilingArctic regionsArctic regionsDescription and travelArctic regionsHistoryArctic regionsSocial life and customsHistory.Electronic books. Snowmobiling796.94097Sturm Matthew1688945MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807864403321Finding the Arctic4063584UNINA