Through darkening spectacles
Subtitle: memoirs of Diamond Jenness
By: Diamond Jenness and Stuart E. Jenness.
Contributors: Jenness, Stuart E. 1925-; Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Series: Mercury series. History paper -- 55; Mercury series -- 55.
Publisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization; Canadian Museum of History
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gatineau, Quebec
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780660198026
Subjects: Jenness, Diamond, -- 1886-1969; Jenness, Diamond, -- 1886-1969 -- Bibliography; Jenness, Diamond, -- 1886-1969; Jenness, Diamond, -- 1886-1969 -- Bibliographie; Ethnologists -- Canada -- Biography; Anthropologists -- Canada -- Biography; Ethnologues -- Canada -- Biographies; Anthropologues -- Canada -- Biographies
Genres: Bibliography; Bibliographie; Biography; Biographies
Other titles: Memoirs of Diamond Jenness
Notes: "This book contains an unpublished manuscript of recollections by Diamond Jenness with additional chapters written by Stuart E. Jenness"--T.p. verso.

"The publications of Diamond Jenness": p. 367-374.

"Publications about Diamond Jenness": p. 375-377.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-385) and index.

Abstract also in French.
Table of contents: title: 1908 : the launching of an innocent / D. Jenness; title: 1912 : the ascent of Mount Madawana, Papua-New Guinea / D. Jenness; title: 1913-16 : the Canadian Arctic Expedition / S.E. Jenness; title: 1915-24 : the trials of a polygamist /  D. Jenness; title: 1916-22 : the First World War and it aftermath / S.E. Jenness; title: 1923-24 : on a British Columbia frontier / D. Jenness; title: 1924 : trekking the Yukon telegraph line / D. Jenness; title: 1925-26 : a friendship lost  / S.E. Jenness; title: 1926 : seaching for early Americans / D. Jenness; title: 1926-39 : administrative tedium / S.E. Jenness; title: 1934 : anthropology rescues an immigrant / D. Jenness; title: - 1936 : an Indian medicine man / D. Jenness; title: 1926-39 : field work, books, consulting, and conferences / S.E. Jenness; title: 1938 : Europe in the shadow of impending war / D. Jenness; title: 1939-48 : the Second World War and early retirement / S.E. Jenness; title: 1948-65 : post-retirement wanderings / S.E. Jenness; title: 1949-50 : wandering through Italy / D. Jenness; title: 1955-56 : a winter in troubled Cyprus /  D. Jenness; title: 1959-60 : a French pilgrimage and early church architecture / S.E. Jenness; title: 1961-62 : adrift in Spain / D. Jenness; title: 1964 : in Greenland / D. Jenness; title: Recollections of "A splendid little Chap" /  S.E. Jenness.