Boundless
Subtitle: tracing land and dream in a new Northwest Passage
By: Kathleen Winter
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781619025677
Subjects: Social conditions; Travel; Inuit; Description and travel
Description: In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter embarked on a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness to the new math of the North, where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that five nations stand poised to claim sovereignty of the land; and where the local Inuit population struggles to navigate the tension between taking part in the new global economy and defending their traditional way of life. Kathleen Winter's "Boundless" is an homage to the ever-evolving and magnetic power of the North.
Table of contents: title: An invitation; title: Kangerlussuaq; title: Viking funeral; title: Sisimiut; title: Cathedrals of ice; title: The Captain; title: Bodies of water; title: Annie's doll; title: Emily Carr's milk bill; title: Geology; title: Dundas Harbour; title: The white garden; title: Beechey Island; title: Following Franklin; title: Tracing one warm line; title: Gjoa Haven; title: Jenny Lind Island and Bathurst Inlet; title: Supremacy of rock; title: Kugluktuk; title: Sacred land.