Susan Kaplan, Genevieve LeMoine

Peary's Arctic Quest

Untold Stories from Robert E. Peary's North Pole Expeditions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Filled with artifacts, drawings, maps, and historical photographs from the Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum collections, Peary's Arctic Quest provides a richly illustrated overview of Robert Peary's quest to reach the North Pole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 167mm x 246mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781684750511
• ISBN-10: 1684750512
• Artikelnr.: 62996934

Autorenporträt

> > > Dr. Genevieve LeMoine is an archaeologist and curator/registrar of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She received her BA from the University of Toronto and her MA and PhD from the University of Calgary. She began working in the north as a graduate student, excavating Paleoeskimo sites on north Devon Island. Since then she has worked at sites in the Mackenzie Delta, NWT, Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Inglefield Land, northwestern Greenland, and northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut; the last three as a principle investigator. Her research interests include skeletal technology, experimental archaeology, and women in prehistory. Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation, and the National Geographic Society. She has published the results of her research in a variety of academic journals and edited volumes and has curated exhibits on subjects ranging from climate change to Canadian Inuit art.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Robert Edwin Peary, 1856-1920
Peary the Innovator
He Could Not Do Without Them
Peary and the Inughuit
The North Pole Expedition
The Controversy
The North Pole Today
Index