ISBN: 9780773511071 - no ordinary journey: john rae, arctic explorer 1813-1893 (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. John Rae's solitary childhood in the rugged hills of Orkney, Scotland, can be seen as preparation for the challenge he later faced in the Canadian Arctic. As a member of the Hudson's Bay Company, with a posting as surgeon and clerk to George Simpson, he travelled extensively in the Arctic, often alone. Taught to survive in extreme conditions by the Indians and the Inuit, he used this knowledge in exploring, surveying and mapping; collecting information on zoology, ethnography, and geology; and making detailed observations of the ethnography of the Inuit. In his later years he wrote widely on the natural history, geography, and anthropology of the North. Rae was a committed, independent, and idiosyncratic man and a controversial figure in his own period. There has, until now, been little recognition of the importance and diversity of his achievements.…

1993. Exploration. National Museum of Scotland/McGill-Queen's University Press. Very good paperback 116p.

Zustand: Good. Later binding: professionally bound in cloth with original cover and spine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Excellent account of John Rae's Arctic journeys. National Museums of Scotland. pp.xi.128. Illus.