Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact (Parks and Heritage)

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Critical forces of culture and nature collide on this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island within the age of contact. Surveying the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, creator Lyle Dick presents an impressive remedy of European-Inuit contact within the High Arctic (the world of what’s now the Quttinirpaaq National Park) even as taking into consideration the jobs of the natural environment and cultures as factors in human history. As he charts the dynamic interplay between change and continuity on this forbidden land, Dick unravels the complexities of cultural exchange and human relationships to the Arctic landscape. Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated remedy of Canada’s High Arctic because it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.

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