Ultima Thule: Explorers And Native In The Polar NorthW. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - 399 pages An illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its effects on indigenous peoples. Ultima Thule is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, it brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples they found. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and the polar environment is bleak: the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing for good. But according to Jean Malaurie, the situation is not altogether without hope. Heavily illustrated with period photographs, engravings, artifacts, and drawings, the book gives the readers the impression of having an entire museum of North Pole history in their hands. |
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS | 4 |
CAPTAIN JOHN ROSS | 15 |
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN | 45 |
CAPTAIN EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD | 51 |
ERASMUS YORK | 58 |
ELISHA KENT KANE | 75 |
ISAAC ISRAEL HAYES | 83 |
THE LAST MIGRATION OF THE INUIT | 106 |
ADMIRAL ROBERT EDWIN PEARY | 175 |
THIRD METAMORPHOSIS OF THE INUIT | 214 |
DR FREDERICK ALBERT COOK | 221 |
LUDVIG MYLIUSERICHSEN | 243 |
PETER FREUCHEN 286 | 255 |
LORD EDWARD SHACKLETON | 317 |
ERIK HOLTVED | 323 |
JEAN MALAURIE | 333 |
GEORGE STRONG NARES | 129 |
BARON NILS ADOLF ERIK NORDENSKJÖLD | 153 |
THE FANTASY WORLD OF THE INUIT | 370 |
CHRONOLOGY OF THE POLAR ESKIMOS 16162000 | 394 |
Common terms and phrases
aboard American April Arctic Ocean August Baffin bear boat British Canadian Cape Alexander Cape Sabine Cape York Captain John Ross coast Collection Jean companions Cook Cook's Copenhagen Photo crew Denmark dog sled dogs Ellesmere Island Etah expedition expedition's explorers feet Fjord floe Franklin glacier Greely Hall Hans Hendrik harpoon Harvey Chêne Hayes Hendrik Holtved hunters hunting igloo Inglefield Land Inughuit Inuit iron Jean Malaurie July June Kane Kane's kayak Knud Rasmussen latitude Lauge Koch Lieutenant lived meat Melville Bay miles narwhal National Archives National Museum native never night North Pole North Star Bay party Peary Peary's Peter Freuchen Polar Eskimos Private collection-Photo Qaanaaq Sacheuse Savissivik scientific seal sealskin ship Siorapaluk skin sledge sleds Smith Sound snow South Greenland stone Thule tion told took Upernavik Uutaaq voyage walrus whale wife winter woman women wood young
References to this book
The Humboldt Current: A European Explorer and His American Disciples Aaron Sachs Limited preview - 2007 |
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of ... Aaron Sachs Limited preview - 2007 |