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The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world

Sea ice and the midnight sun, flaming aurora and endless winter night--the arctic of traveler's tales and romantic novels is the unattainable dream of a vast and desolate world--the last imaginary place on Earth.

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  • ""The location of a tropical paradise, the graveyard of ships straying too close to where the polar ocean drains into the earth's hollow interior, the source of unimaginable quantities of gold, the home of a lost 'Aryan' civilization - for those who do not live there, the Arctic has over the course of time been all of these things. It is the last imaginary place on Earth. Now, renowned archaeologist Robert McGhee lifts the veil to reveal the true Arctic. Combining anthropology, history, and personal experience, this book dispels the romanticized notions of the Arctic as a world apart, exotic and isolated, revealing a land far more fascinating than we had imagined. McGhee paints a vivid portrait of the movement of Viking farmers across the North Atlantic islands, and of the long and arduous searches for sea-passages to Asia. We meet the fur-traders who pioneered European expansion across the northern forests of Canada and Siberia, the whalers and ivory-hunters who ravaged northern seas, and patriotic explorers racing to reach the North Pole. Above all, McGhee offers a fascinating insight into the native peoples of the Arctic, societies that other histories usually neglect. We discover how northerners have learned to exploit a rich 'hunter's world' where game is, contrary to our expectations, far easier to find than in more temperate lands. He takes us to a thousand-year-old Tuniit campsite perfectly preserved in the Arctic cold, follows the entrepreneurial Inuit as they cross the Arctic in search of metal, and reveals the dangers that native people face today from industrial pollution and global warming. Features a vivid portrait of the Arctic through history, from the Ice Age to the present day, shows both sides of the Arctic story - both the history of its many peoples and how it came to be imagined by the world outside, takes the reader on a fascinating historical journey to meet Inuit hunters, Viking settlers, intrepid fur traders and whalers, Renaissance adventurers, and patriotic nineteenth century explorers" Site web de l'éditeur."
  • "Sea ice and the midnight sun, flaming aurora and endless winter night--the arctic of traveler's tales and romantic novels is the unattainable dream of a vast and desolate world--the last imaginary place on Earth."@en
  • "An account of life in the Arctic through human history. Describes early doomed expeditions and the work of fur traders, ivory hunters, and whalers."
  • ""Longtemps mystérieuse, toujours fascinante, cette terre de glace est avant tout une terre des hommes. Robert McGhee l'a compris et en fait ici une démonstration éloquente.""
  • "Sea ice and the midnight sun, flaming aurora and endless winter night--the arctic of traveler's tales and romantic novels is the unattainable dream of a vast and desolate world--the last imaginary place on Earth. Now, in this fascinating volume, renowned archeologist Robert McGhee lifts the veil to reveal the true Arctic. Combining anthropology, history, and personal memoir, this book dispels romanticized notions of the Arctic as a world apart, exotic and isolated, revealing a land far more fascinating than we had imagined. McGhee paints a vivid portrait of the movement of Viking farmers across the North Atlantic islands, and of the long and arduous searches for sea-passages to Asia. We meet the fur-traders who pioneered European expansion across the northern forests of Canada and Siberia, the whalers and ivory-hunters who ravaged northern seas, and patriotic explorers racing to reach the North Pole. Most important, McGhee offers far more coverage of the native peoples of the Arctic, societies that other histories usually neglect. We discover how northerners have learned to exploit a rich "hunter's world" where game is, contrary to our expectations, far easier to find than in more temperate lands. McGhee takes us to a thousand-year-old Tuniit campsite perfectly preserved in the Arctic cold, follows the entrepreneurial Inuit as they cross the Arctic in search of metal, and reveals the dangers that native people face today from industrial pollution and global warming. Flavored by McGhee's personal reflections based on thirty years of work and travel in the region, here is a wide ranging, enlightening look at one of the most culturally rich and fascinating areas of the world."

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  • "Une histoire du monde arctique le dernier territoire imaginaire"
  • "The last imaginary place : a human history of the Artic world"
  • "The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world"@en
  • "The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world"
  • "Une histoire du monde arctique : le dernier territoire imaginaire"
  • "The last imaginary place"@en
  • "The last imaginary place"
  • "The last imaginary place a human history of the Arctic world"
  • "The last imaginary place a human history of the Arctic world"@en
  • "The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic"

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