The Last Imaginary Place
A Human History of the Arctic World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 March 2006
- ISBN 9780192807304
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 241x163x28 mm
- Weight 637 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 pp colour plates; 46 integrated halftones 0
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Short description:
A vivid portrait of the Arctic throughout history, from the Ice Age to the present day. McGhee tells the fascinating story of how the Arctic and its peoples came to be as they are, as well as how the region has been imagined over the centuries by the world outside.
MoreLong description:
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.
'excellent survey'
Table of Contents:
Prelude: An Arctic Vision
After the Ice Age
A Distant Paradise: The Arctic in Ancient Thought
A Hunter's World
In Arctic Siberia
Vikings and Arctic Farmers: the Norse Atlantic Saga
Inuit
Ice and Death on the Northeast Passage
Martin Frobisher's Gold Mines
The Rape of Spitsbergen
Bay of Tragedy
Frozen Glory
The Peoples' Land
An Arctic Journey
Useful References, Interesting Reading
Index
