Author: Jonathan C. H. King
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773530088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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"Arising from a conference held at the British Museum in 2001, Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland is a wide-ranging and authoritative account of clothing use in the north. For the first time, contributors include Native and non-Native artists and seamstresses, anthropologists, historians, curators and conservators with expertise in Alaska, Canada and Greenland."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: J.C.H. King
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773573283
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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In the Arctic, sea and land animals provide the raw materials for garments that allow people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions.
Author: Cunera Buijs
Publisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Betty Kobayashi Issenman
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Betty Issenman examines all aspects of winter and summer Inuit clothing, going back 4000 years, with particular emphasis on northern Canadian Inuit. She also describes the kinds of material and tools used to make the clothing. The focus is on on Inuit clothing as protection, identity, and culture bearer, roles it has played for thousands of years. No other book brings together contemporary and historical material from the circumpolar worlds with original research. Sinews of Survival is a fascinating study of Inuit clothing, past and present. It includes over 200 illustrations of various kinds of clothing. The voices of the Inuit are heard throughout the text in quotations from consultations and the literature. By describing one component of Inuit society, the author opens a pathway to understanding the culture as a whole.
Author: Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher:
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1558
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Author: Peter Goodwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472954181
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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In the summer of 1773 the 14-year old Horatio Nelson took part in an expedition to the Arctic, which came close to ending his naval career before it had begun. The expedition was to find a navigable northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific, and was supported by the Royal Society and King George III. Two bomb vessels HMS Racehorse and Carcass were fitted out and strengthened under the command of Captain Hon. Constantine Phipps. It was an extremely cold Arctic summer and the ships became locked in ice far from Spitzbergen and were unable to cut their way out until days later when the wind changed and the ice broke up. The ships were extricated and returned home. On the trip, the young Nelson had command of one of the smaller boats of the ships, a four-oared cutter manned by twelve seamen. In this he helped to save the crew of a boat belonging to the Racehorse from an attack by a herd of enraged walruses. He also had a more famous encounter with a polar bear, while attempting to obtain a bearskin as a present for his father, an exploit that later became part of the Nelson legend. Drawing on the ship's journals and expedition commander Phipps' journal from the National Archives, the book creates a picture of the expedition and life on board. Using the ships' muster books it also details the ship's crews giving the different roles and ranks in the ships. The book is illustrated using some of the ship's drawings and charts and pictures of many objects used on the ship, while a navigational chart of the route taken has been created from the logbooks. The book also looks at the overall concept of naval exploration as set in train by Joseph Banks and the Royal Society. The fact that the expedition failed as a result of poor planning with potentially tragic results demonstrates the difficulties and uncertainties of such an expedition. It also looks at a great naval commander at the earliest stage of his career and considers how the experience might have shaped his later career and attitudes. Other great captains and voyages are discussed alongside Nelson, including Captain Cook and his exploration of the south seas and the later ill-fated northern journeys of Franklin and Shackleton.
Author: John V. Haggard
Publisher:
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Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1602
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"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Author: Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Supersedes TM1-240 of 1 April 1942. Directed towards Army personnel who will have to travel in the Arctic of North America.
