The big thaw
Subtitle: travels in the melting north
By: Ed Struzik ; foreword by Gerald Butts.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Mississauga, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780470157282
Subjects: Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions; Habitat (Ecology) -- Arctic regions; Global warming; Global environmental change; Inuit -- Social conditions; Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions; Arctic regions -- Climate; Arctic regions -- Politics and government
Description: 'The Big Thaw' details not only the ecological drama taking place in the far north, but the struggles of its native people, the Inuit, to preserve their way of life, and the international battle over which country actually owns the Arctic and its wealth of natural resources.
Notes: Includes index.