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Ships of wood and men of iron : a Norwegian-Canadian saga of exploration in the high Arctic / by Gerard Kenney.
- Title
- Ships of wood and men of iron : a Norwegian-Canadian saga of exploration in the high Arctic / by Gerard Kenney.
- Author
- Kenney, Gerard I., 1931-
- Publication
- Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center, c2004.
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- University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
- Description
- xi, 135 p. : ill., folded maps, ports.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter. Winters there can be dangerous with temperatures that plunge to awesome depths during the long, lonely hours of Arctic darkness. Powerful blizzards shriek across the land for days at a time, causing all animal life to seek shelter from the cutting blast, essentially putting a temporary end to normal activities of life, such as travelling and eating. It is an unforgiving land that does not easily suffer fools. -- from back cover.
- Series Statement
- TBS ; 9
- Uniform Title
- TBS (Series) 9.
- Subject
- Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930
- Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930
- Fram (Ship)
- Fram (Navire)
- Explorers > Canada, Northern > Biography
- Explorers > Norway > Biography
- Arctic regions > Norwegian
- Arctic regions > Canadian
- Canada > Boundaries > Arctic regions
- Arctique > Découverte et exploration norvégiennes
- Arctique > Découverte et exploration canadiennes
- Canada > Frontières > Régions arctiques
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Includes index.
- Series title provided by vendor.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 132.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Pt. I. The Norwegian expeditions, 1893-1902 -- The man and the ship -- Sverdrup's second arctic expedition -- The first winter -- The second winter -- The third winter -- The fourth winter -- Home to Norway! -- Pt. II. The Canadian expeditions, 1903-1948 -- Canada is not amused -- Albert Low and the Neptune, 1903-1904 -- Joseph Elzear Bernier, 1904-1925 -- The Canadian Arctic expedition, 1913-1918 -- The twenty years of the St. Roch, 1928-1948 -- Canada and Norway negotiate -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0889771685 :
- OCLC
- 53900793
- SCSB-12596786
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library