Finding the Arctic
Subtitle: history and culture along a 2,500-mile snowmobile journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay
By: Matthew Sturm
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Fairbanks
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781602231634; 9781602231641
Subjects: Social life and customs; Description and travel; Snowmobiling; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tracks North; title: Ballad of the arctic science bandits; title: Changes north; title: Rosebud realities; title: The quest's older cousin; the Iditarod; title: Porcupine hospitality; title: Quarantine Island; title: Poignant passing: the Mad Trapper of Rat River; title: Who was the Mad Trapper of Rat River?; title: Big Mac; title: Snow and ice roads; title: Finding the Douglas Cabin; title: Black Lake ice; title: The shield and the cordilleran; title: Fort Confidence; title: The Northern Cross; title: Kugluktuk; title: Inuksuk; title: Sea ice going, going, gone; title: The starvation trail; title: The diamond confluence; title: The oldest rocks in the world; title: The complex calculus of Barrenlands Diamond Mining; title: The Braided Strands: first interloper (Hearne); title: Whiteout on Aylmer Lake; title: Strange wooly attractors; title: The last refugee (Hornby).