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Harnessed to the Pole : sledge dogs in service to American explorers of the Arctic, 1853-1909 / Sheila Nickerson.
- Title
- Harnessed to the Pole : sledge dogs in service to American explorers of the Arctic, 1853-1909 / Sheila Nickerson.
- Author
- Nickerson, Sheila B.
- Publication
- Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2014]
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| Text | Request in advance | SF428.7 .N53 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 320 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Sled dogs > Arctic regions > History
- Sled dogs > Arctic regions > Biography
- Sled dogs > United States > Biography
- Dogsledding > Arctic regions > History
- Explorers > Arctic regions > History
- Explorers > United States > History
- Discoveries in geography > American
- Dogsledding
- Explorers
- Sled dogs
- Arctic regions > American
- Arctic Regions
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Jules Verne : how fiction transported the first dogs to the North Pole -- Sir John Franklin How, in reality, a lost explorer needed dogs -- What was the Greenland dog? -- "Sledge" or "sled"? -- Toodla and Whitey, the first famous sledge dogs -- Henry Bergh saving the dogs of New York, not knowing the dogs of Greenland -- Oosisoak and Arkadik, king and queen of the sledge dogs -- Disease and diet -- Dogs and drivers : the essential team -- Seeking companionship : when dogs were not available -- Barbekark the hunter -- Dogs as showmen -- Wolf, Smarty, Bear, Shoemaker, and Tiger : riding a doomed ship -- Tommy the cat and the lemmings : life and death after the dogs -- Bear, Spike, and the nameless prisoners : castaways on ice -- Toekelegeto, Ublubliaq, Miqijuk : racing with hunger -- The importance of naming -- Kasmatka, Snoozer, Bingo, Snuffy, Tom, Jack, and Wolf : drifting to farewell -- The polar bear -- Gypsy, Old Sneak, Ritenbenk, Disco King : the abandoned -- The nameless known by their number -- Heart-hungers -- Nalegaksoah, king of the team -- Commemoration.
- ISBN
- 9781602232235 (paper : acid-free paper)
- 1602232237 (paper : acid-free paper)
- 9781602232242 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013024460
- OCLC
- 849822664
- SCSB-11773066
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library