[PDF.57fo] Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island

Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island

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 | #3265978 in Books |  2012-04-24 |  2012-04-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  11.02 x.63 x8.50l,1.90 | File type: PDF | 138 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| More than geography|By NickyS|This is a beautiful book about a tiny island north of the Yukon that most people will never have heard of. Why should we pay attention? Because the island - both in terms of what happened to its indigenous people and what is now happening to the land because of climate change, tell a huge human story about what we do - and don't - value.About the Author|Christopher R. Burn holds an NSERC Northern Research Chair in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. His research centres on the impact of climate change on permafrost terrain.

Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Arctic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was named by John Franklin during a voyage to establish sovereignty over arctic North America, and it was the location of the first police detachment in the Canadian Arctic. The rise of the fur trade in the 1910s and 1920s led to the Inuvialuit becoming the wealthiest abor...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island   |  Christopher R. Burn. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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