The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world / Robert McGhee.

Main entry:

McGhee, Robert.

Title & Author:

The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world / Robert McGhee.

Edition:

Ed. 2007.

Publication:

Description:

296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An Arctic vision -- After the Ice Age -- A distant paradise : the Arctic in ancient thought -- A hunter's world -- In Arctic Siberia -- Vikings and Arctic farmers : the Norse Atlantic saga -- Inuit -- Ice and death on the northeast passage -- Martin Frobisher's gold mines -- The rape of Spitsbergen -- Bay of tragedy -- Frozen glory -- The peoples' land -- An Arctic journey.

Summary:

An account of life in the Arctic through human history. Describes early doomed expeditions and the work of fur traders, ivory hunters, and whalers.

Resources:
Table of contents only
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

9780226500898 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0226500896 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Arctic regions History.
Arctique Histoire.
Arctic Regions.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308323
Call No.: BIB 253744
Status: Available

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