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ISBN: | 9781602231054 1602231052 1602230773 9781602230774
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearted, winning memoir and a call to action on the issues of environmental awareness and conservation that are inextricably intertwined with life in the north. Mixing personal impressions of key figures of the postwar scientific boom with the intellectual drama of field research, The Land Beyond is a mem.
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Other form: | Print version: Ives, Jack D. Land beyond. Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2010 9781602230774
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