Muskox Land, Volume 5: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact Tapa blanda - 2001

Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press., 2001 First printing in trade paperback. 615 pp. Maps, figures, photographs, bibliography, index. Hint of a spine crease otherrwise Fine.

B&w illus. and maps throughout

Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2001. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxv, 615pp., index, biblio., notes, photos, ill., maps. Spine very slightly cocked, previous owner's name inside front..

Calgary CA: University of Calgary Press, 2001. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, pictorial wraps, 615 pages. Critical forces of culture and nature collide in this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island in the age of contact. Surveying the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lyle Dick presents an impressive treatment of European-Inuit contact in the High Arctic (the area of what is now the Quttinirpaaq National Park) while considering the roles of the natural environment and cultures as factors in human history. As he charts the dynamic interplay between change and continuity in this forbidden land, Dick unravels the complexities of cultural exchange and human relationships to the Arctic landscape. Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration. Winner of the Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English Language Book in… Leer más