Cold Comfort, Second Edition
My Love Affair with the Arctic
2nd Edition
Published on 10. October 2007
344 pages
978-0-7735-7542-4 (ISBN)
Description
An engaging reminiscence of the end of an era in arctic exploration.
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Edition
Second edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
48 illustrations, 10 maps
48 illustrations, 10 maps
File size
19,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-7542-4 (9780773575424)
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Person
Graham W. Rowley (1912-2003) was a research professor of northern and Native studies at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Susan Rowley, Graham Rowley's daughter, is co-editor of Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut, associate professor of anthropology and
Susan Rowley, Graham Rowley's daughter, is co-editor of Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut, associate professor of anthropology and
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- PART ONE
- 1 Preparing for an expedition
- 2 The Eastern Canadian Arctic in 1935
- 3 Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Churchill
- 4 Churchill to Bay of Gods Mercy
- 5 Walrus Island
- 6 Ship-time at Coral Harbour - Coats Island and Duke of York Bay
- 7 A long walk to Repulse Bay
- 8 Preparing for winter travel
- 9 Repulse to Igloolik - hard start
- 10 Repulse to Igloolik - easy finish
- 11 Igloolik to Piling
- 12 Return from Piling
- 13 Across Baffin Island to Pond Inlet
- 14 Pond Inlet
- 15 Pond Inlet overland to Arctic Bay
- 16 Spring at Arctic Bay
- 17 Excavating at Admiralty Inlet
- 18 South on the Nascopie
- PART TWO
- 19 Return to Repulse Bay
- 20 Waiting at Repulse Bay
- 21 Christmas in Lyon Inlet
- 22 Lyon Inlet to Igloolik
- 23 Jens Munk Island
- 24 Through the Baffin Island Mountains
- 25 Anaularealing to Pond Inlet
- 26 Pond Inlet to Igloolik
- 27 A new island
- 28 Excavating at Abverdjar
- 29 South to the war
- PART THREE
- Foreword
- Preface
- 30 The War Years, 1939-45
- 31 Exercise Musk-Ox, 1945-46
- 32 The Defence Research Board, 1947-53
- 33 The Advisory Committee on Northern Development and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
- 34 Retirement and the Carleton Years
- APPENDICES
- A. Ataguttaaluk
- B. Game
- C. Life histories
- D. Publications from the expedition
- E. Publications by Graham Rowley
- F. Sources for Part III
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
