Last Imaginary Place

History

Robert McGhee

World

Oxford University Press

<p>1978 Van Nostrand Reinhold oversize softcover, 1-5 number line. ISBN: 0442298137 The first book for the genral reader....introduction to the prhistoric ancetors of the Inuit, the native inhabitants of the Arctic.Illustrations of of ancient tools. weapons and bones...(with) ColorfulInuit myths and...descriptionsof the origins of ...the snowhouse and dogsled, .Back book blurb.</p>

Canadian Arctic prehistory (Canadian prehistory series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Beluga Hunters: An Archaeological Reconstruction of the History and Culture of the MacKenzie Delta Kittegaryumiut (Paper / Canadian Ethnology Service,)

Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadie

<p>From the book: "They were five weeks out of England, driving through a storm on the icy edge of the world, when a sudden blast knocked Gabriel on her side. The helmsman tried frantically to turn the tiny ship into the wind that pinned it down, but the rudder had lifted clear of the surface and took no purchase. Water poured over the side, roaring into hatches as the wind drove the vessel across the waves and the crew clung frozen in despair. Only the captain acted, scrambling along the almost-horizontal upper sides, casting off lines to spill wind from the sails, forcing the crew into action to cut away the mizzenmast and the broken foreyard, then preventing them from doing the same to the mainmast. Finally Gabriel rose sluggishly, heavy with seawater but steering slowly off the wind. A tangle of broken rigging and sodden sails, she wallowed before the storm through the remainder of the day and all of the following night, while the captain restored order and set men to pumping the ship dry." Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, Gabriel's captain B privateer and adventurer Martin Frobisher B took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. A few days after enduring the storm of 14 July 1576, Frobisher sighted the most easterly outlier of Arctic North America and for the first time England became aware of this vast northern region. Over the next three summers it would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for a northwest passage, the first attempt by the British to establish a settlement in the New World, and the first major gold-mining fraud in North American history. Over 1,200 tons of rock were mined from Baffin Island and shipped to England, where they were found to contain not an ounce of gold. Yet Frobisher's claim of possession established British interest in northern North America and was the first step in the eventual establishment of British sovereignty over the northern half of the American continent. Using reports from the men who participated in the venture, details preserved in the oral histories of the Inuit, and archaeological information recovered from the sites of Elizabethan activities on Baffin Island, Robert McGhee describes Frobisher's expeditions and offers new insights into this audacious venture. The story ends on an ironic note B the capital of the new Territory of Nunavut, which restores to the Inuit a measure of the sovereignty claimed for England by Frobisher, lies at the head of the bay named after him, where over four centuries ago the English first ventured into Arctic America. </p>

The Arctic Voyages of Martin Forbisher: An Elizabethan Adenture (Volume 28)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

McGill-Queen's University Press

Vikings in the West

Archaeological Institute of America

The Last Imaginary Place A Human History Of The Arctic World

Americas

Key Porter

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