LEADER 03624nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910809607403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-60223-105-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000015106 035 $a(EBL)1820982 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421680 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11277444 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421680 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413656 035 $a(PQKB)10872712 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1820982 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1820982 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389866 035 $a(OCoLC)646068309 035 $a(OCoLC)1162004591 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110960 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000015106 100 $a20090827d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe land beyond $ea memoir /$fJack D. Ives 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aFairbanks $cUniversity of Alaska Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60223-077-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue -- 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. 330 $aGeographer 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. 606 $aEarth sciences$xResearch$zNewfoundland and Labrador$zLabrador$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEarth sciences$xResearch$zQuebec (Province)$zNord-du-Quebec$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGraduate students$zNewfoundland and Labrador$zLabrador$vBiography 606 $aNatural history$zNewfoundland and Labrador$zLabrador 606 $aNatural history$zQuebec (Province)$zNord-du-Quebec 606 $aWilderness areas$zNewfoundland and Labrador$zLabrador$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWilderness areas$zQuebec (Province)$zNord-du-Quebec$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aEarth sciences$xResearch$xHistory 615 0$aEarth sciences$xResearch$xHistory 615 0$aGraduate students 615 0$aNatural history 615 0$aNatural history 615 0$aWilderness areas$xHistory 615 0$aWilderness areas$xHistory 676 $a557.19072/0718 676 $a557.190720718 700 $aIves$b Jack D$0613342 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809607403321 996 $aThe land beyond$93961520 997 $aUNINA