03624nam 2200697Ia 450 991080960740332120200520144314.01-60223-105-2(CKB)2560000000015106(EBL)1820982(SSID)ssj0000421680(PQKBManifestationID)11277444(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421680(PQKBWorkID)10413656(PQKB)10872712(MiAaPQ)EBC1820982(Au-PeEL)EBL1820982(CaPaEBR)ebr10389866(OCoLC)646068309(OCoLC)1162004591(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110960(EXLCZ)99256000000001510620090827d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe land beyond a memoir /Jack D. Ives1st ed.Fairbanks University of Alaska Pressc20101 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60223-077-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue -- My first summer at the lab -- History of Labrador-Ungava -- Founding of the lab -- Knob Lake and the lab : summer 1955 -- Astray Lake : our first canoe trip -- Summing up : first summer -- The Torngat Mountains : 1956/57 -- Into the wilderness -- Results: Summer 1956 -- Winter 1956/57 : Ottawa -- Torngat Mountains, 1957 -- The McGill Sub-Arctic Research Lab : operations, 1957-1960 -- Indian House Lake, 1958 -- Helluva Lake, 1958 -- Fall 1958 : an appraisal -- The lab in 1958/59 -- The lab in 1959/60 -- Death on the Koroksoak -- Transition : 1960-66 -- The quest for knowledge -- Staffing -- Research results: 1954-64 -- Wider impacts -- Short biographies -- Appendices.Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearted, winning memoir and a call to action on the issues of environmental awareness and conservation that are inextricably intertwined with life in the north. Mixing personal impressions of key figures of the postwar scientific boom with the intellectual drama of field research, The Land Beyond is a mem.Earth sciencesResearchNewfoundland and LabradorLabradorHistory20th centuryEarth sciencesResearchQuebec (Province)Nord-du-QuebecHistory20th centuryGraduate studentsNewfoundland and LabradorLabradorBiographyNatural historyNewfoundland and LabradorLabradorNatural historyQuebec (Province)Nord-du-QuebecWilderness areasNewfoundland and LabradorLabradorHistory20th centuryWilderness areasQuebec (Province)Nord-du-QuebecHistory20th centuryEarth sciencesResearchHistoryEarth sciencesResearchHistoryGraduate studentsNatural historyNatural historyWilderness areasHistoryWilderness areasHistory557.19072/0718557.190720718Ives Jack D613342MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809607403321The land beyond3961520UNINA