Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]Bloomsbury Academic, 11. des. 2003 - 797 sider Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.
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... Inuit with more detailed knowledge of the dead men . From them , he learned that a group of Inuit had met about forty white men on the southern coast of King William Island . The men were clearly starving and were overjoyed to be able ...
... Inuit from those visiting the HBC post to trade . Almost unique among their people , the Caribou Inuit were not hunters of marine mammals inhabit- ing the coast but lived inland , where caribou provided their chief means of subsistence ...
... Inuit tribes farther east on the shores of Coronation Gulf . The fact that this region had once been inhabited was evident from the remains of houses and Samuel Hearne's report in 1771 of encountering Inuit at the mouth of the ...
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