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University of Calgary Press is pleased to announce the release of
"Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact" by Lyle Dick.
MUSKOX LAND
ELLESMERE ISLAND IN THE AGE OF CONTACT
Lyle Dick
1-55238-050-5
6x9 in.
640 pp., 9 colour illustrations, 52 b/w illustrations, 19 maps, 5 graphs
$34.95
Parks and Heritage series, No. 5
ISSN 1949-0426
This important book analyzes the history of Aboriginal-European
relations in the Ellesmere Island region of the High Arctic in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Historian Lyle Dick presents an
impressive treatment of European-Inuit contact in the High Arctic (the
area of what is now Quttinirpaaq National Park of Canada), focusing on
the roles of the natural environment and culture as factors in human
history, as well as the charting of historical change arising from the
interplay of cultures, the environment, and circumstance during the
exploration era.
"Muskox Land" is a landmark contribution to the existing body of work on
the history of the North. Dick brings together insights from various
disciplines, such as historiography, Native Studies, geography, ecology,
anthropology, and polar exploration history to provide readers with a
more sensitive understanding of the High Arctic in the contact period.
The book was meticulously researched and documented through a
comprehensive search of polar archival collections in Canada and the
United States, as well as oral history with the Inuit of Grise Ford,
Nunavut.
"...definitely makes a significant contribution to Arctic history and
anthropology. I am sure that the Inuit of Canada and the Inughuit of
Greeland will be pleased to see that their voices are finally being
heard! There is no other work which delves with such depth into the
subject matter."
- Rick Riewe, University of Manitoba
For more information on this book, or other University of Calgary Press
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