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MARC recordUltima Thule: explorers and natives in the polar north / Jean Malaurie ; translated from French by Willard Wood and Anthony Roberts.
| Title: | Ultima Thule: explorers and natives in the polar north / Jean Malaurie ; translated from French by Willard Wood and Anthony Roberts. |
| Author(s): | Malaurie, Jean. Wood, Willard, Roberts, Anthony, |
| Date: | 2003. |
| Publisher: | New York: W.W. Norton |
| Abstract: | English translation of Ultima Thule : de la découverte à l'invasion, 2nd ed., Paris, 2000. Illustrated general account of European and American exploration in polar regions, from discovery by John Ross in 1818 to establishment of American air base at Thule in 1951, based on excerpts from explorers' logs and Inuit testimony. Focuses on cultural clash between Inuit and white explorers, and discusses fragility of polar landscape and Inuit culture. |
| Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo. 91(091) -- Exploration, history. 93 -- History. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*38) -- Greenland. (*387) -- North Greenland. (*387.6) -- Avanersuaq/Thule region. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-FOL: (*38) : 91(091)[2003] |
| ISBN: | 0393051501 |
| SPRI record no.: | 167504 |
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