Cold Comfort, Second Edition
My Love Affair with the Arctic
Published on 10. October 2007
300 pages
978-0-7735-7882-1 (ISBN)
Description
In 1936 Graham Rowley went to the still-unexplored west coast of Baffin Island as the archaeologist for a small British expedition - the last in the Canadian North that depended on traditional techniques. Cold Comfort, his acclaimed memoir of this period, captures the way of life in the North before World War II, including the experience of travelling by dogsled over unexplored land. This new edition includes the beginning of Rowley's planned sequel covering his post-war experiences in the Arctic. The additional three chapters describe Operation Musk-Ox, the first military exercise to show that it was feasible to manoeuvre in the Arctic even in winter, and Rowley's work for the Canadian Defense Research Board. An afterword by Susan Rowley and John Bennett expands on Rowley's ongoing involvement in the rapid change that took place from the Cold War to the establishment of Nunavut.
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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
