Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
- ISBN-10
- 1552380505
- ISBN-13
- 9781552380505
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 615
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Author
- Lyle Dick
Description
The first large-scale monograph on the contact between Aboriginal peoples and Europeans during the era of polar exploration. A comprehensive treatment and analysis of Aboriginal-European relations in the Ellesmere Island region of the High Arctic (now the Quttinirpaaq National Park of Canada) in the 19th and 20th centuries. Based on thorough research of published and unpublished primary resources on the history of north polar exploration. A revealing work on both polar exploration, the sensitive issue of cultural contact and the roles of Canada, the United States, and Britain (and some Scandinavian countries) in polar exploration. The book is illustrated with rare archival photographs in colour and black and white.
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