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Autore: | Ives Jack D |
Titolo: | The land beyond [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir / / Jack D. Ives |
Pubblicazione: | Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina: | 557.19072/0718 |
557.190720718 | |
Soggetto topico: | Earth sciences - Research - Newfoundland and Labrador - Labrador - History - 20th century |
Earth sciences - Research - Québec (Province) - Nord-du-Québec - History - 20th century | |
Graduate students - Newfoundland and Labrador - Labrador | |
Natural history - Newfoundland and Labrador - Labrador | |
Natural history - Québec (Province) - Nord-du-Québec | |
Wilderness areas - Newfoundland and Labrador - Labrador - History - 20th century | |
Wilderness areas - Québec (Province) - Nord-du-Québec - History - 20th century | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; My First Summer at the Lab; 1. History of Labrador-Ungava: An Introduction; Founding of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory, 1954; 2. Knob Lake and The Lab: Summer 1955; Astray Lake, 1955: Our First Canoe Trip; Summing Up: First Summer; 3. The Torngat Mountains: 1956-1957; Into the Wilderness; Results: Summer 1956; Winter 1956-1957: Ottawa; Torngat Mountains, 1957; 4. The McGill Sub-Arctic Research Lab: Operations, 1957-1960; Color Plates; Indian House Lake (Lac de la Hutte Sauvage), 1958; Helluva Lake, 1958; Fall 1958: An Appraisal |
The Lab in 1958-1959The Lab in 1959-1960; Death on the Koroksoak: Northeast Nouveau Québec, 1960; Transition: 1960-1966; 5. The Quest for Northern Knowledge; A Permanent Expedition in the Subarctic; Staffing; Research Results: 1954-1964; Wider Impacts; Geographical Branch: Ottawa and Baffin Island; Trent University and Peter Adams; Université de Montréal and Jim Gray; Epilogue: Short Biographies; Appendices; Endnotes; References; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The land beyond |
ISBN: | 1-60223-105-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910458253803321 |
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