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Arctic Fever

Author : Anastasia Likhacheva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811696169

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Arctic Fever by Anastasia Likhacheva Pdf

This book explores the Arctic as a rapidly evolving phenomenon in international affairs of a rising number of stakeholders. For decades, Arctic studies used to be an affair of a relatively narrow group of experts from northern countries. This time is over due to a new Chinese Arctic policy, as well as growing regional interests from South Korea, Singapore, India and Japan. Contributors reflect on new roles for the Arctic region: both as a playground for the old school nation state competition and even confrontation, and a new source for international cooperation in energy, logistics and natural sciences. Climate change, political tensions and economic competition make Arctic a hotter venue of international relations. This new Arctic fever, studied through a comparative analysis of different regional agendas, especially with a focus on the US–China–Russia triangle, represents the main subject of our book, which will be of interest to scholars of geopolitics, of climate change, and of 21st century energy economics.

Arctic Trucker

Author : Joseph Alan Gustaitis
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781608702947

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Arctic Trucker by Joseph Alan Gustaitis Pdf

Describes why so many people choose to work in occupations that put their lives on the line.

Arctic Doctor

Author : Dr. Joseph P. Moody
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787208858

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Arctic Doctor by Dr. Joseph P. Moody Pdf

Arctic Doctor is an account of the true adventures of Joe Moody, the heroic young medical doctor whose practice covered 600,000 square miles of Canada’s East Arctic. Headquartered at Chesterfield Inlet on the west coast of Hudson Bay, Joe Moody made “routine” calls to his 2,000 Eskimo patients that required to take perilous trips by aircraft, dog sled, and canoe; to direct complicated surgery by telephone; and to confront Eskimo practices of infanticide and the “assisted suicide” of the age. Dr. Moody’s book is an exciting and suspenseful account of his years in the East Arctic—years of courageous effort on behalf of his profession, years devoted to scientific and human observation of the most fruitful kind, and years of heady adventure rarely matched in the annals of northland fiction.

The Coldest Crucible

Author : Michael F. Robinson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226721873

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The Coldest Crucible by Michael F. Robinson Pdf

In the late 1800s, “Arctic Fever” swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost their lives en route. Yet failure did little to dampen the enthusiasm of new explorers or the crowds at home that cheered them on. Arctic exploration, Michael F. Robinson argues, was an activity that unfolded in America as much as it did in the wintry hinterland. Paying particular attention to the perils facing explorers at home, The Coldest Crucible examines their struggles to build support for the expeditions before departure, defend their claims upon their return, and cast themselves as men worthy of the nation’s full attention. In so doing, this book paints a new portrait of polar voyagers, one that removes them from the icy backdrop of the Arctic and sets them within the tempests of American cultural life. With chronological chapters featuring emblematic Arctic explorers—including Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Hall, and Robert Peary—The Coldest Crucible reveals why the North Pole, a region so geographically removed from Americans, became an iconic destination for discovery.

Visual Representations of the Arctic

Author : Markku Lehtimäki,Arja Rosenholm,Vlad Strukov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000366334

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Visual Representations of the Arctic by Markku Lehtimäki,Arja Rosenholm,Vlad Strukov Pdf

Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region

The Arctic Grail

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385673624

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The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton Pdf

Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the pious and ambitious Edward Parry, the flawed hero John Franklin, ruthless Robert Peary and the cool Norwegian Roald Amundsen. He also credits the Inuit, whose tracking and hunting skills saved the lives of the adventurers and their men countless times. These quests are peopled with remarkable figures full of passion and eccentricity. They include Charles Hall, an obscure printer who abandoned family and business to head to a frozen world of which he knew nothing; John Ross, whose naval career ended when he spotted a range of mountains that didn't exist; Frederick Cook, who faked reaching the North Pole; and Jane Franklin, who forced an expensive search for her missing husband upon a reluctant British government. Pierre Berton, who won his first Governor General's award for The Mysterious North, here again gives us an important and fascinating history that reads like a novel as he examines the historic events of the golden age of Arctic exploration.

Arctic Heroes

Author : Z. A. Mudge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385214484

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Arctic Heroes by Z. A. Mudge Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Arctic Heroes. Facts and Incidents of Arctic Explorations From the Earliest Voyages to the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin Embracing Sketches of Commercial and Religious Results

Author : Zachariah Atwell Mudge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385365575

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Arctic Heroes. Facts and Incidents of Arctic Explorations From the Earliest Voyages to the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin Embracing Sketches of Commercial and Religious Results by Zachariah Atwell Mudge Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

The Arctic: a Very Short Introduction

Author : Klaus Dodds,Jamie Woodward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198819288

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The Arctic: a Very Short Introduction by Klaus Dodds,Jamie Woodward Pdf

"The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of the Arctic, its physical environment, and its people. The Arctic is demanding global attention as it warms, melts, and thaws in a manner that threatens not just its 4 million inhabitants, but the whole planet. The reduction of the Arctic to its changing environment would ignore the complexities of the region and its potential. This VSI explores key issues facing the region today, from geopolitics to global warming. It examines the causes and effects of cultural, physical, ecological, political, and economic change in the Arctic, and considers its uncertain future"--

Arctic obsession

Author : Alexis S. Troubetzkoy
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 9781554889310

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Arctic obsession by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy Pdf

From early medieval times to the twenty-first century, what has been the beguiling attraction of the North? This book dwells on contemporary issues besetting the most fragile part of our globe - global warming and environmental, ecological and geo-political concerns. It also provides an overview of the Arctic region, from Canada to the North Sea.

Arctic Explorers

Author : Frances Hern
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936130

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Arctic Explorers by Frances Hern Pdf

There is no saga in Canadian history as full of hardship, catastrophe and mystery as the search for the Northwest Passage. Since the 15th century, the ice-choked Arctic waterway has been sought and travelled by daring men seeking profit, glory or a chance to test themselves against the merciless North. Frances Hern takes us aboard ships with the explorers whose names are memorialized on modern maps of northern Canada: Martin Frobisher, daring privateer in the service of Elizabeth I; Henry Hudson, a navigator who may have driven his crew to mutiny; John Franklin, whose last voyage became an enduring northern mystery; the talented Orkneyman John Rae, a surgeon and surveyor on the trail of Franklin. Also vividly recounted are the gruelling overland treks of Samuel Hearne; the heroic exploits of Roald Amundsen, leader of the first expedition to traverse the passage; and the incredible voyages of Henry Larsen, captain of the RCMP vessel St. Roch.

Writing Arctic Disaster

Author : Adriana Craciun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107125544

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Writing Arctic Disaster by Adriana Craciun Pdf

This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.

The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library

Author : Michael Posluns,Bruce W. Hodgins,S.L. Osborne,Kerry Karram,Ken S. Coates,P. Whitney Lackenbauer,William R. Morrion,Greg Poelzer,Anthony Dalton,Alexis S. Troubetzkoy,John David Hamilton,Claudia Coutu Radmore
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 3128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459729568

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The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library by Michael Posluns,Bruce W. Hodgins,S.L. Osborne,Kerry Karram,Ken S. Coates,P. Whitney Lackenbauer,William R. Morrion,Greg Poelzer,Anthony Dalton,Alexis S. Troubetzkoy,John David Hamilton,Claudia Coutu Radmore Pdf

This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this land, and the area will only become more strategically and economically important in the future. This bundle provides an in-depth crash course, including titles on Arctic exploration (Arctic Obsession), Native issues (Arctic Twilight), sovereignty (In the Shadow of the Pole), adventure and survival (Death Wins in the Arctic), and military issues (Arctic Front). Let this collection be your guide to the far reaches of this country. Arctic Front Arctic Naturalist Arctic Obsession Arctic Revolution Arctic Twilight Death Wins in the Arctic In the Shadow of the Pole Pike’s Portage Voices From the Odeyak

Arctic Justice

Author : Shelagh Grant
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0773529292

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Arctic Justice by Shelagh Grant Pdf

Although there was no Canadian law enforcement in the Eastern High Arctic when a crazed white fur trader was killed by an Inuk, authorities put Nuqallaq and two other Baffin Island Inuit on trial. The Canadian government saw Robert Janes's death as murder; the Inuit saw it as removing a threat from their society according to custom. Nuqallaq was sentenced to ten years hard labour in Stony Mountain Penitentiary where he contracted tuberculosis. He died shortly after being returned to Pond Inlet.Shelagh Grant's award-winning Arctic Justice is a masterly reconstruction of these tragic events at the intersection of Inuit and Canadian justice. Combining original Inuit oral testimony with archival history, Grant sheds light on the conflicting values and perceptions of two disparate cultures. She shows how the Canadian government's decision was determined by fear and political concerns for establishing sovereignty over the Arctic.Arctic Justice is also a social history of North Baffin Island in the twentieth century with vivid portraits of Janes, Captain J.E. Bernier of the CGS Arctic, investigating RCMP officer A. H. Joy, and the remarkable Nuqallaq, his wife Ataguttiaq, and the Inuit of North Baffin Island.

Arctic Mirage

Author : Winton U. Solberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476679952

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Arctic Mirage by Winton U. Solberg Pdf

In 1913, an expedition was sent to the Arctic, funded by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the University of Illinois. Its purpose was twofold: to discover whether an archipelago called Crocker Land--reportedly spotted by an earlier explorer in 1906--actually existed; and to engage in scientific research in the Arctic. When explorers discovered that Crocker Land did not exist, they instead pursued their research, made a number of important discoveries and documented the region's indigenous inhabitants and natural habitat. Their return to America was delayed by the difficulty of engaging a relief ship, and by the danger of German submarines in Arctic waters during the World War I.