Lobsticks and Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks in the Arctic

Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1996. Oblong green quarto; xiv, 326 pages: illustrations, maps, portraits; 21 x 26 cm; bibliographical references and index. Near fine. Lacks jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 1895176883

Contents: John Ross -- Edward Sabine -- William Edward Parry -- James Clark Ross -- Joseph-Elzear Bernier -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Henry Larsen -- Jens Munk -- Thomas James -- Christopher Middleton -- Moses Norton -- George Weetaltuk -- Robert Flaherty -- Jane Franklin -- Francis Crozier -- Edward Belcher -- Charles Francis Hall -- Ebierbing -- Frederick Schwatka -- Henry Kellett -- Robert J.L. McClure -- Johann August Miertsching -- Francis Leopold McClintock -- Samuel Gurney Cresswell -- William Robert Hobson -- John Richardson -- Thomas Simpson -- Charles Codrington Forsyth -- John Rae -- Diamond Jenness -- Ikey Angotisiak Bolt -- Thanadelther -- Matonabbee -- Samuel Hearne -- George Back -- Richard King -- Joseph Burr Tyrrell -- Ernest Thompson Seton -- John Hornby -- David Thompson -- Alexander Kennedy Isbister -- R.M. Ballantyne -- Ernest C. Oberholtzer -- Prentice G. Downes -- John Franklin -- Akaitcho -- Pierre St. Germain -- Robert Hood -- James Anderson -- Emile Petitot -- Charles Jesse Jones -- Guy Blanchet -- Alexander Mackenzie -- George Simpson -- Warburton Pike -- George Mellis Douglas -- Charles Camsell -- Albert Faille -- Frank Conibear -- John Bell -- Robert Campbell -- James Green Stewart -- F.J. Fitzgerald -- W.J.D. Dempster -- Catharine McClellan -- Vitus Bering -- Frederick William Beechey -- W.J.S. Pullen -- William Penny -- Eenoolooapik -- George Strong Nares -- Otto Sverdrup -- Per Schei -- A.H.Joy -- H.W Stallworthy -- Elisha Kent Kane -- A.W. Greely -- Robert Edwin Peary -- Frederick A. Cook -- Matthew Henson -- Donald B. MacMillan -- Robert Bartlett -- Merqusaq -- Franz Boas -- George Comer -- William Duval -- Henry Toke Munn -- Hector Pitchforth -- Lazaroosie Kyak -- John McLean -- William Brooks Cabot -- A.P. Low -- Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. -- Mina Benson Hubbard -- George Elson -- Martin Frobisher -- John Davis -- William Scoresby, Sr. -- William Scoresby, Jr. -- Edward Augustus Inglefield. Standard No: ISBN: 1895176883 ((bound)); 9781895176889; 1895176697 ((pbk.)); 9781895176698; 0585118612; 9780585118611; National Library: (AMICUS)000015459620; 008833435; 1895176883 LCCN: cn 96-910557 Abstract: Lobsticks and stone cairns are landmarks that mark paths and commemorate events. The one hundred biographies in this book also offer themselves as paths to be taken. Centuries of human endeavour, hardship, folly, and suffering are collapsed into stories through which we can discover what the Arctic is and has been. Profiled in this book are "human landmarks" dating from as far back as the sixteenth century to those still active in the North today. Included are stories of adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, culture heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. The biographies are of Inuit, European, American, Indian, and Canadian men and women. What appears here is the essence of each person, rendered by an expert and put in a new context, bringing the history and geography of the North to life.." —Publisher. // Discoveries in geography. Arctic regions -- Biography. Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration. Entdecker Biografie Electronic books. Biographies. Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration. Arctic regions -- Biography. Arctic regions -- Biography. Arctique -- Découverte et exploration. Arctique -- Biographies. Arctique -- Biographies. Arctic Regions. Canada -- Biography. Canada -- Description and travel. Greenland -- Description and travel. Arktis