Download or read book Ancestors in the Arctic written by Malcolm Archibald and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dundee, City of Discovery, is known around the world for its innovation, its jute and music, and its vibrant culture. But the critical role of the city's whaling fleet and the wealth it generated for Dundee for more than a century is less well known. Ancestors in the Arctic is a remarkable collection of photographs from the McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum, and tells the story of Dundee whaling and the men who sailed the frozen Arctic seas. This was a brutal, dangerous business which required the hardiest of men, prepared to head out to sea in all weathers and in terrible conditions in search of the elusive mammal and in the hope of a profit from whalebone, skins and the whale oil which was essential for the city's jute mills and factories. And as they sailed the dangerous Arctic waters, the ship's captains became well known - including Captain William Adams, who sailed farther north than any other Dundee whaling master and Captain Harry MacKay of Terra Nova and rescuer of the trapped Discovery in 1903. More numerous were the crewmen, the hardworking Dundonians who rowed the whaleboats and manned the ships, and many of whose descendants still live in Dundee. Ancestors in the Arctic tells their remarkable stories as they sailed north, traded with the Inuit and hunted whales across forbidding freezing seas.
Download or read book The Ancestors Are Happy written by David F. Pelly and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancestors Are Happy is a masterfully woven tapestry portraying a landscape of stories, which also offers a compilation of personal tales from Inuit informants whose lives collectively span the 20th century, a period of remarkable transition for the North. It draws on the author's experiences and encounters over forty years of living, travelling, and learning in Nunavut. David Pelly's lucid text is rooted in oral--history collected from Inuit elders, for which work he was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. Readers will be carried on a journey across Canada's Arctic, into the land itself, and into the lives of a memorable array of northern characters. At the core is an exploration of Inuit cultural tradition, the hallmark of Pelly's celebrated writing career, which includes nine previous books as well as hundreds of magazine articles. The ancestors are happy, say Inuit elders, when the stories from the land are told, and retold, and thus preserved.
Download or read book Arctic Ancestors written by Shah Rukh and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating voyage through the Arctic's frozen landscapes, unraveling the stories of our ancient predecessors. This immersive exploration unveils the resourcefulness, cultural depth, and resilient spirit of early Arctic inhabitants as they thrived amidst a challenging environment. From deciphering ancient migrations to exploring intricate art forms, the book intricately weaves history and the contemporary world, encouraging readers to forge a deeper connection with the past and reflect on its profound resonance in shaping our present and shaping a sustainable future.
Download or read book Aliens of Ural Arctic Divinity written by Pandit Om Khanduri and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is historical answer to often repeated spiritual question, “Who we are - where have we come from?” In a way history of history attempting renovation of world history by rediscovering and reconstructing Aryan, as a corollary rewriting setting right Indian history that was deliberately deformed, malafidely writhed and prejudicedly wrung by imperialists exploiting compulsions of Indian slavery. Therefore, the book also is historical challenge to such distorted and contorted history still being taught, aped, written and read. It traces the common origin of mankind in the proximity of divinity establishing ancestral unity and common heritage of human race including evolution of civilisation and Knowledge in the presence of supernals called Aliens by Western world and America. The book in Part -2 & 3 uniquely presents challenging metamorphic solution for all ills and ailments of India and Indian polity once and for all and simultaneously a transformational philosophy for world governance. In one sentence, ‘the truth is stranger than fiction’ is what the whole world knows and this book is only that TRUTH.
Download or read book Native Peoples of the Arctic written by Stuart A. Kallen and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and culture of the Inuit, who populated the Arctic long before Europeans explored the lands and waters above the Arctic Circle.
Download or read book Being Caribou written by and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Scandinavia written by Theron Douglas Price and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Scandinavia provides a comprehensive overview of the archaeological history of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
Download or read book Arctic Discourses written by Anka Ryall and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses involved in such accounts, above all into the consolidation of a discourse of “Arcticism” (modelled on Edward Said’s concept of “Orientalism”), but also into the many intersecting discourses of imperialism, nationalism, masculinity, modernity, geography, science, race, ecology, indigeneity, aesthetics, etc. Perspectives originating from inside and outside the Arctic, along with hybrid positions, are examined, with special attention being given to the textual genres, narratives and figures which they mobilize, together with to the close relationship between the Arctic as an unknown place and the literary imagination. The different chapters address a wide geographical range of texts, providing a necessary supplement to most previous work in the field, and also address the wide variety of genres which flourish under the aegis of Arctic discourse, ranging from exploration accounts, travel-writing, political texts and journalism through diaries and historical documents to novels and novelizations, and including also other media, such as music and opera.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Arctic written by Mark Nuttall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-23 with total page 2306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.
Download or read book Arctic Matters written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-04-13 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewed in satellite images as a jagged white coat draped over the top of the globe, the high Arctic appears distant and isolated. But even if you don't live there, don't do business there, and will never travel there, you are closer to the Arctic than you think. Arctic Matters: The Global Connection to Changes in the Arctic is a new educational resource produced by the Polar Research Board of the National Research Council (NRC). It draws upon a large collection of peer-reviewed NRC reports and other national and international reports to provide a brief, reader-friendly primer on the complex ways in which the changes currently affecting the Arctic and its diverse people, resources, and environment can, in turn, affect the entire globe. Topics in the booklet include how climate changes currently underway in the Arctic are a driver for global sea-level rise, offer new prospects for natural resource extraction, and have rippling effects through the world's weather, climate, food supply and economy.
Download or read book Arctic Memories written by Normee Ekoomiak and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-09-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text in both Inuktitut and English describes a now vanished way of life for the Inuit.
Download or read book The Peoples of the Arctic written by Kevin Osborn and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1990 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Inuit and the Aleuts, their place in American society, and the problems they face as an ethnic group in North America.
Download or read book The Arctic Home in the Vedas written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and published by Arktos. This book was released on 2011 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon his vast knowledge of the Hindu Vedas and the Zoroastrian Avesta, Tilak makes a painstakingly detailed analysis of the texts and compares them with the geological, astronomical, and archaeological evidence to show the plausibility of the Arctic having been the primordial cradle of the Aryan race before changing conditions forced the Aryans southward into present-day Europe, Iran, and India.
Download or read book Arctic Son written by Jean Aspen and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chronicle of a family's first year alone in Alaskan wilderness, here is a poetic exploration into what we value in life. In 1992 Jean Aspen took her husband, Tom, and their young son to live in Alaska's interior mountains where they built a cabin from logs, hunted for food, and let the vast beauty of the Arctic close around them. Jean had faced Alaska's wilderness alone before in a life-altering experience she shared in Arctic Daughter. Cut off from the rest of the world for more than a year, now her family would discover strength and beauty in their daily lives. They candidly filmed themselves and later produced a companion documentary, ARCTIC SON: Fulfilling the Dream, which shows on PBS stations across the nation. From an encounter with a grizzly bear at arm's length to a challenging six-hundred-mile river passage back to civilization, Arctic Son chronicles fourteen remarkable months alone in the Brooks Range. At once a portrait of courage, a lyrical odyssey, and authentic adventure, this is a family's extraordinary journey into America's last frontier.
Download or read book Arctic Homestead written by Norma Cobb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles a family's efforts to build a home near the Arctic Circle in Alaska, depicting their moving discovery of love and courage in a land of modern-day outlaws, feuds, grizzly bears, and unbelievably harsh winters.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic written by T. Max Friesen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its extreme climate, the North American Arctic holds a complex archaeological record of global significance. In this volume, leading researchers provide comprehensive coverage of the region's cultural history, addressing issues as diverse as climate change impacts on human societies, European colonial expansion, and hunter-gatherer adaptations and social organization.
Download or read book Arctic written by Amber Lincoln and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the origins of the Arctic to its contemporary life, this book is an intriguing survey of human achievement in a place relatively unknown to the rest of the world. For more than 25,000 years, Arctic peoples have made warm and hospitable homes in diverse and innovative ways out of ecosystems of ice. For the first time in their long history, however, Arctic communities are facing the real possibility that the foundations of their way of life—sea ice and permafrost—will soon disappear. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the British Museum, Arctic: culture and climate presents the history of the Arctic through the lens of climate and weather, and features a variety of fascinating objects, many of which are published here for the first time, including sealskin kayaks, drums used by shamans, traditional costumes, and contemporary art. This remarkable book explores the origins of Arctic peoples, early trade relationships between cultural groups, and relationships with animals, weather and their environments. It examines the strategies that indigenous people have used to deal with rapid transformations brought about by European explorations and colonial governments and sheds light on how these same strategies are being utilized today to mitigate the effects of global climate change. Bringing together indigenous and non-indigenous interdisciplinary scholars, this book is an arresting insight into the ways of life and material culture of Arctic peoples.
