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020 |a978-0-660-19971-9
040 |aCaOODSP|beng
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0861 |aNM24-28/2011E
1101 |aCanada.|bCanadian Museum of Civilization.
24510|aStefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic expedition, 1913–1918 : |ba story of exploration, science and sovereignty / |c[by] Stuart E. Jenness.
2463 |aMecury series. History Paper 56
260 |aGatineau - Quebec : |bCanadian Museum of Civilization Corporation |cc2011.
300 |axxiv, 415p. : |bmaps, references, tables, photographs, index ; |c25 cm.
5203 |aPresents the first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1918, led by the ethnologist/explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. Within its pages are details of the Expedition's successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition's two leaders. Four appendices list Expedition personnel, fifty-three geographical sites in the Arctic named after them, locations of their diaries and collected specimens, and the thirteen government volumes arising from the Expedition. Illustrated with sixty-four photographs and twenty maps.
546 |a(Résumé en français et en anglais.)
563 |aSoftcover
590 |a11-22|b2011-06-03
69007|aCanadian history|2gcpds
69007|aNorth|2gcpds
69007|aScientific research|2gcpds
7201 |aJenness, Stuart E. (Stuart Edward)