The land beyond
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Jack Ives.
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Fairbanks
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781602230774
Subjects: Ives, Jack D. -- Travel -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador; Ives, Jack D. -- Travel -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec; McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory -- History; Earth sciences -- Research -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History -- 20th century; Earth sciences -- Research -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- History -- 20th century; Graduate students -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- Biography; Wilderness areas -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History -- 20th century; Wilderness areas -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- History -- 20th century; Natural history -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador; Natural history -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: My first summer at the lab; title: History of Labrador-Ungava; title: Founding of the lab; title: Knob Lake and the lab : summer 1955; title: Astray Lake : our first canoe trip; title: Summing up : first summer; title: The Torngat Mountains : 1956/57; title: Into the wilderness; title: Results: Summer 1956; title: Winter 1956/57 : Ottawa; title: Torngat Mountains, 1957; title: The McGill Sub-Arctic Research Lab : operations, 1957-1960; title: Indian House Lake, 1958; title: Helluva Lake, 1958; title: Fall 1958 : an appraisal; title: The lab in 1958/59; title: The lab in 1959/60; title: Death on the Koroksoak; title: Transition : 1960-66; title: The quest for knowledge; title: Staffing; title: Research results: 1954-64; title: Wider impacts; title: Short biographies; title: Appendices.